The European Union has committed in principle to the same course as the COP presidency from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other oil states on a controversial issue at the next COP28: To use the controversial CCS technology as a loophole in the phase-out of fossil fuels. The EU now seeks a decision at COP28 that would allow this formulation. This became apparent on the sidelines of the Bonn Climate Change Conference. Irrespective of this, a new assessment by the think tank project „Climate Action Tracker“ calls the EU’s climate policy „insufficient.“