COP28 leader urges nations to get out of ‘comfort zones.’ In a statement released on Friday, the President of COP28, Sultan al-Jaber, asked countries to step outside their comfort zones and collaborate to establish a consensus before the conclusion of the two-week conference.
“Let’s please get this job done,” he urged as he opened a plenary session of the summit, which was entering its most challenging period of discussions.
“I need you to step up and I need you to come out of your comfort zones,” according to him.
Five days remain until the conference is set to finish on December 12th, and on Friday, ministers from various countries will be participating in the discussions.
With at least 80 nations requesting a COP28 agreement that calls for an ultimate end to the use of fossil fuels, the contentious subject of how the almost 200 countries that will be attending COP28 will manage the complex problem of fossil fuels, which is the primary source of emissions that contribute to climate change, is still unsolved.
In the thirty years since the United Nations held its climate conferences, which have never directly addressed the issue of the future use of fossil fuels, such a position would be unprecedented.
In the meantime, eastern European nations are striving to find a solution to the deadlock around the location of the COP29 conference that will take place in the following year. This comes after Russia announced that it would prevent any member of the EU from serving as president of the COP.
As of Friday, the applicants included Azerbaijan, which has expressed interest in accommodating the event as its host. Moldova and Serbia have offered to take over the organization’s rotating chairmanship.
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