New, stronger climate proposal released at COP28, but doesn't quite call for fossil fuel phase-out

A somewhat stronger and revamped proposal that calls for an eventual end to fossil fuel use was presented early Wednesday to negotiators at the United Nations climate summit known as COP28, after the conference presidency's initial document angered many countries by avoiding decisive calls for action on curbing warming.

The new compromise doesn't specifically use the language of calling for a “phase-out" of fossil fuels, which more than 100 nations had pleaded for. Instead, it calls for