Cop28: Five key takeaways from this year’s climate change summit

The curtain has fallen on the Cop28 climate summit, which ended with a historic deal calling for a “transition away” from fossil fuels.

After two weeks of talks, Cop28 president Sultan al-Jaber gavelled the final deal at 11am on Wednesday, exactly 24 hours after the official end of the summit.

The summit saw a fierce battle between countries that wanted language to include the “phase out” of fossil fuels and those against it, led by oil-producing nations such as Saudi Arabia. The deal was hailed by the United Nations as “the beginning of the end for the fossil fuel era”.

Here are some of the main takeaways from the summit:

An end for fossil fuels?

In three decades of climate negotiations, countries had previously failed