Climate Talks Call For A Transition Away From Fossil Fuels. Is That Enough?

For the first time in its history, the United Nations climate conference concluded with a call to transition away from fossil fuels. But not all of the nearly 200 countries present at the meeting, known as COP28, were happy with the final agreement. Critics of the agreement had instead called for a clear path towards phasing out fossil fuels and pointed out a "litany of loopholes" in the final text. This episode, we look at the tensions and breakthroughs of the conference — and how far behind we are in limiting the devastating impacts that could be on the way.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.