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A major new climate deal is struck in Dubai. Is it all hot air or will it really make a difference?

I ask climate expert Lord Nicholas Stern and Biden delivers his harshest criticism yet of Israel's Gaza war. I get inside on the region from scholar

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And then GOP politics on this issue, Republican strategist Liz Mayer, talks to Michel Martin. Welcome. Welcome to the program everyone I'm Christina Montpur in London.

I must say that you did it you delivered.

Cheers and hugs in Dubai today for a new major climate deal

one that supporters say marks the beginning of the end of

fossil fuels. Nearly 200 countries agreed for the first time ever to

transition away from oil, coal and gas and move closer to the goal of achieving net zero by 2050.

It's the end of two weeks of intense negotiations at the UN Climate Summit known as COP28.

But not all parties are happy because it doesn't actually call for phasing out fossil fuels.

Island nations complain that it could be a death knell for them.

And climate activists called the deal which is not legally binding, woefully insufficient, claiming

that it lets the fossil fuel industry off the hook.

Here now, with a verdict, is the expert, Lord Nicholas Stern,

a long-time climate scholar and author of a landmark report

on the issue for the British government.

Lord Nicholas Stern, welcome back to our program.

So we've talked throughout the years about what needs to be done.

We've talked over various cops about this

can you just sum up in a word everybody was worried until the last minute thinking that these

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