Alberta, Sask. Governments Isolate Themselves as Off-Fossil

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Alberta, Sask. Governments Isolate Themselves as Off-Fossil Transition Begins: Guilbeault

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December 28, 2023 Primary Author: Mitchell Beer

EXCERPT: "December 18, 2023: The Alberta and Saskatchewan governments are isolating their provinces and their populations from a shift off fossil fuels that was already under way before this year’s UN climate negotiations, and will be accelerated by the final COP28 declaration, says Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.

After a hard-fought, often anxious battle over the final text of the COP decision, negotiators from 195 countries agreed to language calling for a transition off fossil fuels, the first time in nearly three decades that a UN climate conference has homed in on the biggest root cause of the global climate emergency.

Analysis since has pointed to the big loopholes built into the text, dictated by a UN process that requires consensus of all parties—including the world’s biggest petro-states—on any decision.

But Guilbeault said this year’s COP decision—which he said Canadian officials spent months, not weeks, working to achieve—accelerates a global transition that was already well under way by the time delegates gathered for the two-week negotiating marathon in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

“If we hadn’t agreed to that in the text, we’re still decarbonizing our transport sector and our electricity sector and our heavy industry,” he told The Energy Mix, with world powers like China, the European Union, and the United States all moving in the same direction. . . . "

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