The COP28 agreement has been approved in Dubai, AFP reports.
This after negotiations that dragged on for a long time.
The agreement is historic as it is the first time that countries are being asked to switch from fossil fuels.
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A demonstration against fossil fuels at COP28 in Dubai. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
A new draft of an agreement at the climate conference COP28 in Dubai has been published on Wednesday morning.
In it, countries are asked to switch from fossil fuels in the energy system so that the world can reach zero net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.
It must take place in a fair and orderly way, a formulation that reflects the different conditions that rich and poorer countries have in terms of the possibilities to do so.
The text also underlines the importance of quick action in this “decisive” decade for the fight against climate change.
In addition, it is called for, among other things, a tripling of renewable energy capacity by 2030 and increased pace in the work to develop technical solutions for the separation and storage of carbon dioxide.
The language has been tightened compared to the last draft. But over a hundred countries, including the EU, have pushed for even sharper writings on completely phasing out fossil fuels. This draft lacks a direct call for the phasing out of oil, coal and natural gas.
Now it remains to be seen whether it is something that can be accepted by everyone so that the climate meeting can be concluded.
It was a long night of negotiations at the UN climate summit in Dubai, COP28.
But at 07:00 on Wednesday morning local time – 04:00 in Sweden – the draft of a new climate agreement was published.
In the draft, the countries of the world are asked to move away from fossil fuels in the energy system, in a fair and orderly way. It must speed up the measures so that the world can reach zero net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, writes TT.
However, the agreement lacks a direct call to phase out oil, coal and natural gas.
It has never been over 30 degrees in December in Spain.
But on Tuesday, a record-warm 29.9 degrees was measured in Malaga, and the heat wave also extends to Valencia, which bathed in sun and 27 degrees, writes TT.
According to the national weather agency Aemet, heat waves like this would have been “much less likely without the climate change that has been observed globally”.
On Tuesday, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency presented statistics for the Swedish emissions of air pollution in 2022.
The downward trend continues for most pollutants, but despite this, Sweden continues to exceed its binding EU requirements for reduced emissions for ammonia that would have been met by 2020, the authority states.
“According to the latest scenario for emissions, Sweden may also find it difficult to meet its commitments for both ammonia and nitrogen oxides by 2030,” writes the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency in a press release.
Since 2015, emissions of ammonia have only decreased by around five percent. Emissions of nitrogen oxides have decreased by almost 25 percent during the same period. The biggest sources of nitrogen oxide emissions are road traffic, industry, work machines and electricity and heat production.
– It is clear that more needs to be done to meet Sweden’s commitments, says Roger Sedin, head of the Air Unit, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, in the press release.
Emissions of volatile organic compounds increased sharply between 2021 and 2022, but this increase is due to emissions from the leak from the Nord Stream gas pipeline last September, the authority said.
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Reply to Mike
I don’t believe in all this as much as some do, right or wrong hard to say but I don’t think we should go back several hundred years and start living like cavemen. Why should we make it difficult for those of us who live now so that those who come after will have a good time?? I think we who live NOW should live well too, I don’t think we don’t deserve it! Then the fact that the glaciers are melting faster now could be that the ice is thinner as it has been melting for so many years now and that it is more noticeable than what was done before. Anyway Thanks for a good coverage Agneta E.
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Reply to Enko:
Everyone knows it is that way BUT we live more on earth now and many will probably not survive storms, floods, diseases etc as a result of the above. Are you willing to live as you/we do now and sacrifice your (if any) children so you can continue to ignore the words of scientists?
Mike
The climate has been changing for 5 billion years and it will continue to change no matter what we do! The ice age has melted and there was no human impact, so tag down
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Hello!
I tested this argument on a geologist this summer when I wrote about the rapid melting of the glaciers in the Alps and his answer was that they have a pretty good idea of how the melting and building up of ice masses have looked throughout the different ice ages. In several cases millions of years back. But what distinguishes the melting of the ice now, compared to before, is how fast it is going. That speed has not been seen before through the measurements of various ice sheets and glaciers.
When you travel in other countries, I feel that you deal with the need to reduce food waste by having to pay for your food based on what it weighs, for example at buffets. I never see that in Sweden. Have you written anything about reduced food waste and this measure?
Mikael
I wonder if you can provide some facts about the water level rise. I doubt that is correct as it will take several hundred years before it is really felt. It is not erosion or that sand has been mined in the area. I’m not a climate change skeptic, because the climate has always changed, but good if we can get some facts. The country rises most in Sweden, and we know that, so we are on the safe side.
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Peter
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Hello! According to the geologists I spoke to, there is no longer any land uplift in the southern and central regions of Sweden. The Authority for Community Protection and Preparedness has made technical calculations for what the rise in sea levels could mean for coastal cities in the future. You can find it here.
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The Skåne coast is identified as a national risk area for flooding and erosion – Löderup’s beach is particularly vulnerable.
– Climate change means that we have to abandon the view of what the coasts look like today, says Per Danielsson at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute.
Kristianstad is Sweden’s lowest situated city.
New and higher dikes are now being built.
– We are doing this to protect the city against high tides and future sea level rises, says Karl Erik Svensson, project manager for the dike construction.