Autor/es reacciones
Carlos de Miguel Perales
Environmental Lawyer and Lecturer of Civil and Environmental Law at ICADE Law School (Comillas Pontifical University)
As usual, there has been uncertainty until the last moment as to whether or not an agreement would be reached on essential issues, in this case, most notably fossil fuels. It is therefore a positive step that a call has been made to the parties to abandon it.
But the actual scope of this agreement is conditional on relevant issues that will need to be clarified. For example:
- How the difference between "transitioning away", which is what has been agreed, and the more blunt "phasing out" initially pursued, should be interpreted.
- How this transition is to be financed.
- How the agreement on subsidies will be implemented, consisting of the elimination (in this case, phasing out) "as soon as possible" of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that do not address energy poverty or just transition.
- The role that transitional fuels, which it is claimed can play in facilitating the energy transition while ensuring energy security.
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