Hundreds of world leaders and climate experts gathered at this year's United Nations climate conference to witness the approval of a climate disaster loss and damage fund and a disputed agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels while countries faced crushing assessments of their carbon emissions.
The final Global Stocktake agreement, adopted on Wednesday, marked the first COP text that openly called on countries to wean themselves off fossil fuels. However, this was only an incremental improvement from a draft on Monday that caused outrage for dropping language to phase down or phase out fossil fuels, which more than 100 of the 200 attending countries had expressed support for.
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