Summit president hails ‘historic package to accelerate climate action’, but critics decry ‘litany of loopholes’ in final text
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Nearly 200 countries at the Cop28 climate summit have agreed to a deal that, for the first time, calls on all nations to transition away from fossil fuels to avert the worst effects of climate change.
After two weeks of at-times fractious negotiations in the United Arab Emirates, the agreement was quickly gavelled through by the Cop28 president, Sultan Al Jaber, on Wednesday morning, receiving an ovation from delegates and a hug from UN climate chief, Simon Stiell.
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