COP28 President's Stance on Fossil Fuels Sparks Debate on Climate Summit's Objectives.

The president of the UN's COP28 climate conference, Sultan Al Jaber, has said that fossil fuels will continue to play a role in meeting global energy requirements, despite calls for a global phase-out of unabated fossil fuels. Al Jaber emphasized the role of technologies like carbon capture in reducing planet-heating pollution, but some experts are concerned that these technologies remain prohibitively expensive and unproven at scale. Al Jaber also called on rich countries to deliver on their funding promises to climate-vulnerable countries, saying that failure to do so is hindering progress and undermining trust.