Countries promise clean energy boost at COP28

No consensus: A worker at a wind turbine in China. While the country has signalled support for tripling renewable energy by 2030, it didn’t back the overall pledge last Saturday. — China Daily

DUBAI: Governments have launched new initiatives to bolster clean energy and to wean themselves off fossil fuels at the United Nations (UN) climate summit in Dubai, where countries are grappling with how to halt the non-stop rise in planet-warming emissions.

In one of the most widely supported initiatives, 118 governments pledged to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity by 2030 at the UN’s COP28 climate summit on Saturday, as a route to cut the share of fossil fuels in the world’s energy production.