Is the decision to transition away from fossil fuels just a Cop-out? | UK News
It is the first time countries pledged to move away from using fossil fuels in a landmark deal, but falls short of the complete phase-out desired by over 100 nations.
COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber, said transitioning ‘set the world in the right direction’ but, how long do we have to get there and what irreversible damage will happen in the meantime. Is it too little, too late?
Read on to see what readers think about this issue, among others.
Share your thoughts in the comments.
No wonder Opec countries refused to discontinue fossil fuels…
What a disgrace the Opec (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) countries refused to agree to discontinue fossil fuels at Cop-Out28, instead pledging just to ‘transition’ away from them.
Not a surprise, though, given they have no other means of keeping their coffers loaded. Other than oil, they have nothing else to offer the world.
Their countries are deserts, apart from the small areas they chose to irrigate.
Due to their actions, many other countries will be deserts, like theirs. Others will be submerged by the sea and others will have large parts flooded.
The whole world will be devastated by weather events but the Opec countries don’t care. They just want their money.
Any decent-minded individual should stop visiting them, and other countries should find a way of developing power that makes them obsolete. Alfie Mullin, West London
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‘We dread a visit from the watchdog’
I agree with your correspondent on Thursday who made the point that the healthcare watchdog, the Care Quality Commission, is as feared as Ofsted is by teachers.
I work in a secondary school and my husband is a healthcare manager, so we both have experience of these monitoring bodies, the anxiety and sleepless nights that they cause leading up to and during their inspections.
Heaven forbid we have Ofsted and CQC inspections at the same time – we’d never be out of counselling! Lily, London
‘Wait… Isn’t Thames Water in debt?’
Why did Thames Water give shareholders a dividend in October when it’s not meeting its targets and can’t pay its debts? Ridiculous behaviour.
Presumably, it expects to be bailed out by public money but surely it is the responsibility of the shareholders to pay their debts. Lizzie, Liverpool.
Free speech and Rwanda
Whatever we think about what Gary Lineker has said about Rwanda – he has spoken out against the government’s plan to send asylum seekers there – we have a thing called free speech in is country.
Maybe those Tory MPs criticising the Match Of The Day host should go and live Putin’s Russia. Mark West Midlands
If, as Duncan (MetroTalk, Tues) says, Rwanda is unsafe for immigrants, could he explain why when the Taliban were invading Kabul, the UN moved a girls’ boarding school from there to Kigali, where it is thriving? Dave, East London
‘No one wants to suffer a long, painful and undignified death’
It was sad to read that the late Diana Rigg was denied an assisted death to end her suffering from lung cancer.
Doctors intervene in life’s stages – heart transplants and IVF etc – so why can’t they use their skills to bring about a peaceful death at life’s end?
Many of us wouldn’t want to suffer a long, painful and undignified death. A Wills, London
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