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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey, Patrick Greenfield, Nina Lakhani and Adam Morton in Dubai, and Damian Carrington

Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent’

Activists attend a protest at the Cop climate conference.
Activists attend a protest at the Cop climate conference. Photograph: Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters

A draft deal to cut global fossil fuel production is “grossly insufficient” and “incoherent” and will not stop the world from facing dangerous climate breakdown, according to delegates at the UN’s Cop28 summit.

The text put forward by the summit presidency after 10 days of wrangling was received with concern and anger by many climate experts and politicians, though others welcomed elements of the draft including the first mention in a Cop text of reducing fossil fuel production.

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