OPEC members push against including fossil fuels phase-out in COP28 deal


  • World
  • Saturday, 09 Dec 2023

FILE PHOTO: Delegates walk at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 8, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al Sudani/File Photo

DUBAI (Reuters) - OPEC members are pushing against attempts to include language on "phasing out" fossil fuels in a COP28 climate deal, underlining the struggle over whether the summit can for the first time in 30 years address the future of oil and gas.

Negotiators and observers at the annual U.N. climate talks, pursuing a deal to tackle the worst impacts of climate change, said several OPEC members appeared to have heeded calls by the oil producer group to veto any deal to phase out fossil fuels.

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