Ribera: "The EU will not be satisfied with the progressive reduction of fossil fuels"

He warns that it is everyone's responsibility to ensure that "there is no major blackout in Spain"

   BARCELONA, 9 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The third vice president and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, has celebrated that fossil fuels are included in the agreement of the UN Climate Summit (COP28) in Dubai but warns that "the EU will not be satisfied with the progressive reduction of fossil fuels".

"It is not enough, much more precision, much more clarity will be important," he said in an interview on TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio collected this Saturday by Europa Press.

According to her, "even the president of COP28 has made it clear that he believes this conference must be a revolutionary change, representing the most important meeting since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015."

Regarding the words of the president of COP28, the Sultan of the United Arab Emirates Al Jaber, who said that there is no scenario that says that the elimination of fossil fuels is what will achieve 1.5ºC, he considered that he has the conviction that "he has repented of that."

He has indicated that he also believes that this "obliges him not only to apologize, as he has done, but to demonstrate 'de facto' that he is repentant and that he is going to play the role that he must play."

Ribera has pointed out that "progress is very slow" in renewable energy in Catalonia, since there has been too much time in which nothing has happened, in his words.

"We answer no to everything: we don't want thermal, we don't want nuclear, we don't want gas, we don't want renewables... but we want energy," he analyzed, and pointed out wind-marine energy as an energy that can be accepted and acceptable. by everyone.

In this sense, he has literally warned that it is everyone's responsibility to ensure that "there is not a major blackout in Spain" or that the country remains stuck in a model of the past.