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Germany鈥檚 special envoy for international climate action Jennifer Morgan welcomed the adopted by the EU Council yesterday (9 March) as a 鈥渟trong statement on the road to COP28,鈥� the UN climate change conference taking place in Dubai later this year. , Morgan praised the 鈥渇ar-reaching conclusions鈥� on issues like financing, just transition, security and the energy transition. The conclusions by EU member state governments reaffirmed that EU climate and energy diplomacy is a core component of the bloc鈥檚 foreign policy, the Council wrote . The text,聽titled 鈥淏olstering EU climate and energy diplomacy in a critical decade,鈥� says that the shift towards a climate neutral economy will require the global phase-out of unabated fossil fuels and a peak in their consumption 鈥渁lready in the near term,鈥� and said that natural gas is still needed in the transition. 鈥淭he EU will systematically promote and call for a global move towards energy systems free of unabated fossil fuels well ahead of 2050,鈥� it says.

Reuters that some countries are hoping this year's COP28 summit could clinch a global deal on phasing out CO2-emitting fossil fuels - not only coal, as agreed at previous UN climate talks, but also oil and gas. More than 80 countries, including the EU, supported an Indian proposal to do this at last year's summit, but Saudi Arabia and other oil and gas-rich nations opposed it, the news agency wrote.