Bonus: ClimateCast - COP28: Breakthrough at Dubai climate conference

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🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

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.

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Editor: Wendy Parker

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1:04.0	Welcome to Sky News Climatecast and your introduction to COP28.
1:09.0	May as well be my introduction at COP 28
1:11.4	because I just walked in this huge sprawling event here in Dubai I say in Dubai
1:17.8	technically these events are actually under UN governance you actually see police
1:24.9	here UN armed police which always strikes me as really quite bizarre. But anyway,
1:30.6	down to business, I'm walking on what is actually a yellow brick road. Let's hope this event
1:35.3	leads, if not to an Emerald City, at least to a great green destination. There are plenty of
1:41.0	inspiring slogans around, those classic three-worders.
1:45.2	Unite, act, deliver, hope inspires delivery, things like that.
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