The climate conference is entering the final stage to agree on getting rid of fossil fuels

Baghdad-INA
The twenty-eighth session of the United Nations Climate Conference (COP28), held in Dubai, is witnessing an unprecedented dynamic towards abandoning fossil fuels, despite Saudi Arabia’s opposition.

It is expected that a new draft of the conference’s final agreement will be revealed on Monday morning, the penultimate day before the conference’s conclusion.
This new text will launch an intense series of negotiations that may be followed by one or more nights during which delegates and observers will have no time to sleep. In 28 years, climate conferences have rarely finished on time.
However, the designated president of COP28, the Emirati Sultan Al Jaber, who also serves as president of the giant oil company ADNOC, promised a “historic” agreement on December 12, the anniversary of the announcement of the Paris Agreement.
The agreement concluded in 2015 stipulates limiting global warming to less than two degrees Celsius compared to the temperature that was recorded in the world during the period that preceded the industrial revolution, and if possible to within 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“Everyone has to be flexible,” Al Jaber said, adding, “We have to move forward much faster.”
The new text expected on Monday, which will likely include options or formulas in parentheses, will test Al-Jaber’s ability to reach a compromise in the final hours.
So far, delegates and ministers have made little progress despite arduous negotiations and the most secret bilateral meetings in Expo City Dubai, the venue of the conference.
A source close to the COP28 presidency said that the blocs are waiting for the new text to “reveal their true cards.”