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Today, Explained

An oily climate deal

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.4 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Semafor’s Tim McDonnell says what made COP28 successful was the same thing that made climate activists skeptical about the conference: its host was an oil executive. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin and Isabel Angell, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's easy to look at a climate conference being held in an oil-rich country being run by oil-rich people and think cynical thoughts.

0:09.0

I think history records will show that in 2023 for Cop 28 we let a mosquito lead the fight against

0:17.1

malaria. But then they actually pulled something off for the first time ever in

0:21.8

30 years almost 28 years to be exact of doing these climate negotiations

0:26.4

Every country in the world agreed to transition away from fossil fuels

0:31.8

History has been made at cop 28 in Dubai.

0:35.0

This is the first time the final agreement actually uses the words fossil fuels.

0:40.0

Tim McDonnell was in Dubai covering the big moment for Semaphore where P agreement that people can quibble with and we can talk about those we will the

0:53.8

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