DUBAI (Reuters) – The Alliance of Small Island States said on Wednesday it saw “a litany of loopholes” in a proposed text for a climate deal at the COP28 summit.
“The text does not speak specifically to fossil fuel phaseout and mitigation in a way that is in fact ‘the step change that is needed’,” said the alliance, known by its acronym AOSIS, which represents countries that are disproportionately vulnerable to climate effects including sea level rise.
“It is incremental and not transformational.”
(Reporting by Valerie Volcovici, writing by Elizabeth Piper)
