DUBAI — The latest crack at a breakthrough climate agreement has nations parsing language about how quickly the world can shift away fossil fuels, as delegates try to salvage meaningful progress at the COP28 summit in Dubai.
Even during the hottest year on record, consensus has been hard to find. After all-night negotiations, officials released a new draft agreement on Wednesday morning, calling on nations to transition from fossil fuels “in a just, orderly and equitable manner” while “accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science.”
