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The COP28 climate summit wrapped up in Dubai on Wednesday, and leading researchers have not been shy about saying what they thought of the outcome.

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While some of George Brandis’ comments are valid, his excusing of the effects of Israel’s actions on the basis of the “fog of war” does not stand up to objective scrutiny

By 2050, the FAO aims to have enabled every person to follow healthy diets, and to turn global agrifood systems into “a net carbon-sink”.

Readers’ letters on COP28, fossil fuel lobbyists, nuclear distraction and coal exports; Megan Davis and the Voice; schools’ performance; children’s disability.

Targets include cutting methane emissions from livestock by 25%, halving food waste and managing fisheries sustainably by 2030

COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber refuses to be drawn on calls for a fossil fuel phase out, but insists there is 'a sense that something unprecedented is possible' from Dubai Summit

The outcome of the most important climate negotiations in years could rest on the ambiguity surrounding one linchpin term, according to experts: "unabated fossil fuels".Among the menu of hotly contested options negotiators have picked over this week include an agreement to accelerate "efforts towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels" and to cut their use to reach net-zero by around mid-century. 

Carbon capture and storage technology has emerged as a central issue among U.N. COP28 climate negotiators considering a phaseout of fossil fuels.

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