Climate Politics
EU Fails to Set Date Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies Before COP28
Europe’s environment ministers backed off a hard limit in what green groups will see as a worrying omen for the UN climate summit.
COP28 is set to lay out what progress has been made to keep global heating below 1.5C and what more needs to be done.
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European Union member states couldn’t agree on a deadline for phasing out fossil fuel subsidies when they met Monday in Luxembourg ahead of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai next month.
Environment ministers from the EU’s 27 member states agreed that negotiators should call on countries to end government support for dirty fuels “as soon as possible,” except for those that address energy poverty or a just transition to clean energy, according to the deal seen by Bloomberg.