Published: December 7th, 2023,
Last updated: December 7th, 2023
Today is the only day of rest at the climate conference in Dubai. The halftime score: COP President Al Jaber was able to strike an early score with the loss and damage fund. In the following days, the presidency’s strategy was to launch a barrage of new initiatives, pledges and „accelerators.“ At one point, Al Jaber’s statement claiming that science did not provide any evidence for the need to phase out fossil fuels to meet the 1.5-degree limit was clearly offside.