Pope Francis warned Wednesday the world "is collapsing" due to global warming, urging participants of the upcoming COP28 climate talks to agree to binding policies on phasing out fossil fuels.But he said the next round of UN climate talks opening in Dubai on November 30 "can represent a change of direction", if participants make binding agreements on moving from fossil fuels to clean energy sources such as wind and solar.
Eight years after warning in a landmark thesis of the devastation of man-made climate change, Pope Francis is publishing an update Wednesday to take stock and offer ideas for action.But while Francis has since made climate change a key theme of his papacy, Edenhofer said his influence is not what it was.
The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it would allow environmental activists to "assemble peacefully" at this year's UN climate talks, despite a prohibition on unauthorised protests in the Gulf state.At the upcoming UN climate talks "there will be space available for climate activists to assemble peacefully and make their voices heard," it said.
The United Arab Emirates, which is hosting this year s UN climate talks, has announced its plans for COP28 in November, stating its ambitions for a global agreement for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and hydrogen production in a bid to achieve net-zero by 2050. The COP28 president-designate, Sultan Al Jaber, highlighted the need to "match the highest ambition for the negotiated outcomes with an equally strong and robust action agenda that can implement those outcomes in the real world" and called for stakeholders to "disrupt business as usual" to accomplish the goals.