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Cop28: what just happened?

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The Guardian

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4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A deal has been announced at Cop28 in Dubai, and depending who you talk to, it’s either a historic achievement or a weak and ineffectual agreement full of loopholes. Ian Sample speaks to the Guardian environment editor Damian Carrington, who explains what the deal on fossil fuels will mean in practice, how small island states have responded, and whether it will help us stay within the crucial limit of 1.5C of global heating. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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0:00.0

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0:57.0

Hearing no objection, it is so decided. And beneath all the jargon, a landmark climate deal was announced in Dubai today and COP28 President Sultan Aljaba was keen to sell

1:15.8

it as a huge success.

1:17.8

Over the last two weeks we have worked very hard to secure a better future for our people and our planet.

1:27.0

It is a plan that is led by the science.

1:32.0

But for many, including the small island states whose

1:36.1

entire way of life is at risk the deal doesn't go anywhere near far enough.

1:41.2

We have made an incremental advancement over business as usual

1:46.2

when what we really needed is an exponential step change in our actions and

1:51.4

support.

1:57.5

So as COP28 wraps up, we're asking what happened? And will this new deal actually help us stay within the crucial limit of 1.5 degrees of global heating.

2:05.0

I'm the Guardian Science Senator Ian Somme,

2:08.0

and this is Science Weekly.

2:10.0

Damien Carrington, you're an environment editor at The Guardian and you were at the

2:17.0

first week of COP and since have been scrutinizing proceedings from a distance.

2:21.6

Earlier today a deal agreed by 200 countries was announced

2:26.5

and it felt as if it all happened very quickly. How was it managed?

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