Media coverage

Are countries on track to meet their climate pledges? The BBC covers the Climate Action Tracker's December 2023 update.

"We need to see all governments going back home and looking at their national policies and targets and thinking very carefully about how they are going to move faster to protect those most vulnerable countries," Claire Fyson told Deutsche Welle.

“Overall, the text looks like a major victory for the oil and gas-producing countries and fossil fuel exporters,” Bill Hare told New Scientist.

“It’s a game of chicken,” Bill Hare told PBS. He said the European countries and Pacific Island nations are threatening to walk out if there aren’t changes to the text.

"We hope that this proposal is endorsed by our CARICOM leaders and becomes a true regional goal where we can all track progress and take adaption to the priority it needs at a leadership level,” Sasha Jattansingh told the St. Vincent Times.

"The term ‘abated’ is being used as a trojan horse to allow fossil fuels with dismal capture rates to count as climate action," Claire Fyson tolf RFI. "‘Abated’ may sound like harmless jargon, but it’s actually language deliberately engineered and heavily promoted by the oil and gas industry to create the illusion we can keep expanding fossil fuels."

Claire Fyson is interviewed on Euractiv's Beyond the Byline podcast about what’s been happening at the UN’s Climate Summit COP28, currently taking place in Dubai.

Bill Hare told AP the central issue of the meeting "is to reach a conclusion about the phasing out of fossil fuels. And unless we do that, I doubt whether we’re going to see an improvement in temperature."

"I am very sceptical," Bill Hare told the BBC. "The real challenge for the oil and gas sector is to move away from producing oil and gas," he said. "Nothing else really matters in the end."

“This is an extraordinary, revealing, worrying and belligerent exchange." Bill Hare told The Guardian. "‘Sending us back to caves’ is the oldest of fossil fuel industry tropes: it’s verging on climate denial.”