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Analysis | U.N. climate talks chart a complex course away from fossil fuels

The Washington Post · last updated

At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai, dubbed COP28, which drew to a close this week, tens of thousands of delegates, experts, lobbyists and activists descended on a lavish campus erected in the Emirati metropolis to stave off a looming planetary catastrophe.

From the outset, the summit was a “jumble of contradictions,” a forum hosted by an oil-pumping petrostate. Proceedings were always going to be complicated, but the result of days of wrangling over a final communiqué yielded what most analysts have cast as a qualified success.

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