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One of the central topics at the COP28 will be whether fossil fuels should be phased out, but it will be run by the CEO of an oil company

The world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated, experts say.

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The pressure is on for leaders attending the 28th climate conference to prevent global warming from accelerating further, but there is still a long way to go.

Some countries are pushing for an agreement to phase out fossil fuels at the COP28 summit in Dubai, but others argue that such a deal wouldn't be fair

Climate-vulnerable countries want to see at least US$100 billion a year paid into the Loss and Damage Fund.

Published days before COP28 in the UAE, a report has charged four Arab states as being in the world's top 20 fossil-fuel contributors. Despite calls to divest from fossil fuel and invest in renewable energy, the world continues to ignore our pleas.

As the world focuses on energy transition and decarbonisation, there is clearly no shortage of bold ambition on the part of many African governments to play a key role in global efforts...

The UN said countries have to slash their emissions by 42% by the end of the decade.

While humanity's efforts to curb planet-warming emissions are nowhere near enough to avoid heating the world to catastrophic levels, tentative improvements show that progress is possible.Warming of that scale would prompt catastrophic climate disasters worldwide, including the risk of mass extinctions, the melting of glaciers and permafrost that could eventually unleash metres of sea level rise and unliveable conditions across much of the planet.