U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks during a session on accelerating clean energy at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
During U.N. climate change negotiations in Egypt on Wednesday, the United States signaled its support for the adoption of language calling for phasing down the use of fossil fuelsThe possible amendment to an agreement between 190 nations that is under discussion is symbolic and would not have any enforcement mechanism. Instead, much like how the existing climate agreement, the Glasgow Climate Pact, calls for participating countries to pursue a goal of limiting global warming 1.
But the new U.S. support comes with a condition: that the phase out refers only to"unabated" fossil fuels, meaning those burned without technology to capture the carbon dioxide emissions at the smoke stack. That technology, known as carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is in use at just, almost all of which are industrial.
The use of"phase down" — which is softer than, say, an"absolute end" of fossil fuel use sought by many environmental andStill, at this year’s conference, India has also pushed a broader anti-fossil fuel amendment. On Tuesday, the European Union said it would join the United Kingdom and a coalition of small island nations that are backing India’s proposal.
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