Andrii Yalanskyi/Shutterstock Save for later Print Download Share Championed by Island states and strongly supported by the EU, the real clincher for last week's COP28 agreement to transition away from fossil fuels may ultimately have been the broad alignment of big Western fossil fuel producers 鈥� like the US, Canada, Australia and Norway 鈥� behind fossil fuel language. This 鈥渁lignment around the fact that fossil fuels had to be mentioned in the final communique for the first time,鈥� whether it was abated (with carbon mitigation) or unabated fossil fuels, 鈥渨as critical,鈥� argues James Henderson from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. The 鈥渋ntroduction of the ability to remove carbon or CO2 as part of the process鈥� was also 鈥渧ery important" and a "big driver for the US," Henderson told 博彩对冲. Notably, the political stars among these center-left producer-consumer governments may not align as favorably again, with the US facing a polarizing election in November 2024.
