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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey in Baku

UAE urges countries to honour fossil fuels vow amid Cop29 impasse

Activists react while holding posters at the summit
Activists at Cop29 call for climate action in Baku, Azerbaijan. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

The world must stand behind a historic resolution made last year to “transition away from fossil fuels”, the United Arab Emirates has said, in a powerful intervention into a damaging row over climate action.

The petrostate’s stance will be seen as as a sharp rebuke to its neighbour and close ally Saudi Arabia, which had been trying to unpick the global commitment at UN climate talks in Azerbaijan this week.

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