Cop38

Cop28 ended with a global agreement to stop using fossil fuels, but without specific enforcement requirements suitable to ensure progress towards that goal.

*Summit president [al-Jaber] hails "historic package to accelerate climate action", but critics decry "litany of loopholes" in final text.*

Some climate scientists have called its weakness a disaster.

This gives UAE oil emir al-Jaber an excuse to claim to have achieved great theoretical progress while in practice continuing to sell as much oil as he can pump.