Irish transport minister calls Cop28 agreement ‘historic’ but ‘not perfect’

Irish transport minister Eamon Ryan has said the deal struck at the Cop28 climate conference to “transition away” from fossil fuels is “historic”.

Mr Ryan, who is Ireland’s leader and a lead EU negotiator on climate finance, said it is not “perfect”, but that if the package had not been delivered it “would have been a critically sad and difficult”