What were the key outcomes of COP28?

Dec 20, 2023

UN climate summit COP28 held in fossil fuel-reliant UAE.

This was the first COP to officially acknowledge that fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change. Image: Pexels/Arin Erin

Mark Maslin

Professor of Earth System Science, UCL

Priti Parikh

Professor of Infrastructure Engineering and International Development, UCL

Simon Chin-Yee

Lecturer in International Development, UCL

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