Final Days of COP 28; Negotiations go deep into the night

“We will walk away; this is not acceptable.”

Eamon Ryan, who is part of the team negotiating at COP28 on behalf of the EU, has threatened to abandon an agreement because the latest draft of the stocktake does not take a strong enough stance on phasing out fossil fuels.

Eamon Ryan, Green Party leader / EU’s lead negotiator on climate finance at COP 28.

Negotiations have stretched into the night, while activists line the path to the negotiating rooms at #COP28 in Dubai.

High-level meetings and negotiations held into the night.

With less than 24 hours until the official closing of the UN Climate Change Conference, some activists say the latest draft text is wholly unacceptable for failing to end fossil fuels.

In the draft of the #COP28 text, which is 11,000 words long, the climate activists intimate that the “fossil or the “F” words” are only mentioned three times, and the words “oil” and “gas” are not even mentioned once.

Now, the majority of the activists are calling for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.