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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nimo Omer

Wednesday briefing: Making sense of the new draft climate deal as crucial summit comes to a climax

Demonstrators embrace at the end of a protest against fossil fuels at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit.
Demonstrators embrace at the COP28 UN climate summit. Photograph: Peter Dejong/AP

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“We will not go silently to our watery graves”: those were the stern words from John Silk, the head of the Marshall Islands delegation, in response to a draft climate agreement at Cop28. The unequivocal condemnation of the draft by dozens of countries reflects the gravity of the situation for those who are facing the sharpest effects of the climate crisis.

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