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Delegates rise and applaud after COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber announces that nations will adopt a climate deal that calls for the world to transition away from fossil fuels. IMAGES
COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber urges nations to step out of their "comfort zones and find common ground to deliver a high ambition and balanced outcome." SOUNDBITE
Greenpeace activists gather and inflate a giant octopus near the Eiffel Tower to protest against the presence of Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store at the international One Planet - Polar Summit, an international summit dedicated to glaciers and the poles. Norway is considering opening up its waters to deep-sea mining. IMAGES
Images show Berlin's Brandenburg Gate splattered with orange paint after activists from the "Last Generation" ("Letzte Generation") environmental collective spray-painted the six pillars of the emblematic monument to warn of the urgency of global warming and demand a change in the German government's policy. The movement is calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels by 2030 at the latest. Police arrested around ten activists near the gate, some of whom were still sitting on the ground, handcuffed. IMAGES
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls on wealthy countries to move up their goals of achieving carbon neutrality "as close as possible to 2040". Guterres, who will hold a climate action summit in September, again stresses the role of the Group of 20 -- the world's largest economies and Europe -- which together are responsible for 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. SOUNDBITE
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