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Squabbling delegates to the UN climate summit, COP28, have failed to agree on a plan to phase out fossil fuels, leaving the issue in limbo and calling into question the entire COP process as a venue to deal with climate change.
As long as the goal of cutting carbon emissions remains voluntary, nations are able to indulge the greens in their fantasies that they are saving the planet. But saving the planet is for serious people. Trying to dictate to countries whose primary means of national revenue is oil and gas that they should find other ways to live is beyond arrogant. It’s only natural that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and other oil-producing states resist the destruction of their economies.
But the greens are heartbroken. The draft proposal that ends every conference contained only the suggestion that nations might voluntarily phase out fossil fuels.
It’s not only the OPEC bloc and other energy-producing nations that are resisting the call to phase out oil, gas, and coal.
