COP28 opened in Dubai on 30 November with a great deal of enthusiasm and hope, but it ended on 12 December in a much more humble frame of mind. The driving force behind this initial momentum was the creation of the loss and damage fund on the major summit’s very first day.
“We have made history,” said Sultan Al Jaber, COP28 President and the United Arab Emirates’ Special Envoy for Climate Change, congratulating himself on the “unprecedented, phenomenal and historic” speed of the decision.
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