At 11.09 on Wednesday morning, COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber opened the pivotal session of the Dubai Climate Change Conference. In the Al Hairat plenary, he presented his proposal for the main final document on the Global Stocktake (GST) to the overtired delegates of COP28. Just as Laurent Fabius, then President of the 2015 Paris Agreement, did, Al Jaber briefly looked around the room, said: „Hearing no objection, it is so decided“ – and banged his gavel down. The hall rose to cheers and a standing ovation. The long-disputed agreement, the „UAE Consensus,“ had been accepted.