The COP28 climate deal reached with huge fanfare this week in Dubai is a stab in the back for the nations most affected by global warming and won’t stop temperatures rising beyond critical levels, activist Greta Thunberg said on Friday.
Nearly 200 countries agreed at the summit to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuel and adopt a raft of measures, including more clean energy production, to avert the worst effects of climate change.
But critics say the deal will not prevent global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average, which scientists say will trigger catastrophic and