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Bonus: ClimateCast - COP28: Breakthrough at Dubai climate conference

Bonus: ClimateCast - COP28: Breakthrough at Dubai climate conference

FromSky News Daily


Bonus: ClimateCast - COP28: Breakthrough at Dubai climate conference

FromSky News Daily

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Dec 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The King has urged world leaders assembled in Dubai to make the COP28 climate summit a "critical turning point" in the fight to tackle global warming. And there has already been a breakthrough with wealthy nations contributing nearly $300m to a 'loss and damage' fund compensating poorer countries for the effects of climate change. It has taken 32 years to agree so while it is an achievement, the real issue remains cutting fossil fuels. In oil-rich Dubai that is a thorny issue. It and other petrostates are still arguing that the world needs fossil fuels while it transitions to greener energy sources. Climatecast host Tom Heap is in Dubai finding out what COP28 might achieve.For more from CimateCast, click here to subscribe.Producers: Emma Rae Woodhouse & Luke Denne Editor: Wendy Parker
Released:
Dec 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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