Cop28 has finally named fossil fuels as the main climate problem. But do leaders have the will to act? | The real test is whether producers back it up with action

Cop28 has finally named fossil fuels as the main climate problem. But do leaders have the will to act? | Adam Morton

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Narrator: "They didn't."
- It's on us to force them to act. Change like this isn't something that just happens because the politicians decided to suddenly defy the wealthy and powerful.
No
- But maybe, maybe - tiny maybe - they act if they get told at COP29. Or COP30. Or COP31. Or a later COP.
  
  Remove leaders and see if it makes a difference. I can barely get pil to stop using paper towels and buying everything laces in plastic. If you can't change an incredibly tiny thing. No chance you'll get the whole planet to put the planet first. Worlds fucked. Unless we are able to change reality itself. End of humanity.
  Maybe try again in a few billion years.
We currently see most large new oil projects in rich Western countries namely USA, Canada, UK and Norway. All of them could lower oil consumption enough, to not need to expand oil production with relative ease. Similar story for gas. At least none of them expand coal production.
Also it is not just fossil fuel producers that need to act. Also the consumption site has to do a lot of work.

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