32 years of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, 36 years of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – and no end to climate change in sight, what’s going on? We have known for decades that fossil fuels are the main problem. It was only last year that this was finally acknowledged in the final declaration of COP28. But if Der SPIEGEL is right, this insight will disappear from the texts again. We are on the wrong track, because rapid climate change, as we have triggered it, is causing massive damage, costing human lives and destroying nature as we know it.