The Greens have issued their wish list of demands ahead of the big COP28 talks starting on November 30th.

From Thursday heads of state and government, ministers, the EU – represented by Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra – and representatives of non-governmental organisations and lobby groups will be negotiating the global climate crisis at COP28, the 28th United Nations Climate Conference.

The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament say they will be present in Dubai.

MEPs Bas Eickhout (pictured) and Jutta Paulus are both members of the European Parliament’s COP28 delegation, as well as Michael Bloss and Hannah Neumann.

• Global phase-out of all fossil fuels
• End subsidies for fossil fuels
• Treaty on the non-proliferation of fossil fuels
• Significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
• Tripling the share of renewable energies
• Doubling energy efficiency
• Establishment of the fund to support climate-related loss and damage and provide it with fresh money
• Exclusion of representatives of fossil fuel industries from the climate conference along the lines of the World Health Organisation’s exclusion of the tobacco industry
• Release of human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor and all political prisoners in the United Arab Emirates

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Image: Photographer: Eric VIDAL Copyright: © European Union 2023 – Source : EP

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