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Hearing no objection, it is so decided.

And the gavel comes down on the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference being held in the United Arab Emirates after some very harassed last minute haggling.

And they've agreed to a 196 paragraph long communique which has been called the

UAE consensus but there's only really one paragraph that really really matters and

we will tell you why on this episode of

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The era of global warming has ended.

The era of global boiling has arrived.

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The Prime Minister is not under a desk.

Hello it's Adam in the studio.

So, COP28, the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, has reached its finale a bit later than

planned, and when we last checked into what was happening there there was a

big stucy Scottish word you can imagine me and Laura Koonsburg saying that about

the language in the final text about fossil fuels. There was an argument about whether it should be all

fossil fuels as opposed to just coal, which is what previous cops have talked about. And there was

also a drama about whether countries are going to be compelled to do something or whether there was just going to be a menu of options that they could maybe choose from later on and also whether the goal was to phase out fossil fuel use completely or it's

much more milder, more optional, more voluntary, less good cousin phase down.

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