After 13 days of talks and several sleepless nights in a country built on oil wealth, the Emirati president of the COP28 summit quickly banged a gavel to signal consensus among 194 countries and.
The COP28 deal was lauded by many as “the beginning of the end of fossil fuels”. However, some observers were critical of the move, saying the deal had “a lot of room for interpretation”. A look at what the experts think about the outcome of the first Global Stocktake and what is in store at COP29.