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UN climate chief Simon Stiell warns that global warming will "decimate G20 economies" without unity. "Sidelining climate isn’t a solution to a crisis that will decimate every G20 economy and has already started to hurt," he says during his address at the UK think tank Chatham House, London, UK. SOUNDBITE
"On behalf of the Arab Group, I express our gratitude to the efforts of all the state parties in order to have a successful first global stocktake," Saudi official Albara Tawfiq tells the COP28 conference. Nearly 200 nations meeting at the UN climate talks in Dubai on Wednesday approved a first-ever call for the world to transition away from fossil fuels, tackling the top culprit of climate change after years of avoidance although at-risk countries said far more action was needed. The text stopped short of backing appeals during the summit for a "phase-out" of oil, gas and coal, which together account for around three-quarters of the emissions responsible for the planetary crisis. SOUNDBITE
"The era of global boiling has arrived," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says in remarks at the UN headquarters. "The air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable, and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable." SOUNDBITE
Environmental activists from Attac, Greenpeace and Alternatiba sprayed the floor of the Place de la Bourse with green paint and inscribed the message "Welcome to the Greenwashing Summit" at the entrance to the Palais Brongniart, which will host the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact. IMAGES
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres skewers oil firms for having "peddled the big lie" about their role in global warming, telling the World Economic Forum that they should be held accountable. SOUNDBITE
The United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi passes a solution to start negotiating a world-first global treaty on plastic pollution in what has been hailed a watershed moment for the planet. Nearly 200 nations unanimously agreed to create an intergovernmental committee to negotiate and finalise a legally binding plastics treaty by 2024. IMAGES
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