Countries at the COP28 climate talks need to stop posturing, aim high and agree on a way to end the “fossil fuel era as we know it”, UN climate chief Simon Stiell said on Wednesday, as tension over the future of coal, oil and gas came to the fore. The UN climate chief was speaking as the two-week...
Former US vice-president and climate campaigner Al Gore has hit out at the fossil fuelindustry’s “capture” of global UN negotiations on climate change “to a disturbingdegree”.It was “time to abandon the mistaken assumption” that oil and gas companies andpetrostates were “good faith participants” during the UN process that culminates in asummit to be held in...