What Is COP28 and Why Is It Important?

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World leaders are due to gather for annual climate change talks in Dubai this week. On the agenda: the phase-down — or even phase-out — of fossil fuels, a global goal to help the world adapt to extreme weather events, standards for trading carbon emissions and a new fund to pay for the damage wreaked by global warming.