UN Climate Summit Ends With Call for the World to Move Away From Fossil Fuels

Countries are also encouraged to promote a progressive social agenda as part of their plan to address climate change.

COP28 president Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber (C) and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Simon Stiell (L) and other officials attend a plenary session during the United Nations climate summit in Dubai on Dec. 13, 2023. Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images

After more than two weeks of discussions on how to keep the global temperature from rising further, the United Nation’s climate summit in Dubai concluded on Wednesday morning with an agreement calling for the world to “transition away” from fossil fuels.

The non-binding pact was struck by representatives of nearly 200 countries attending the summit—known as COP28—held in the capital of the oil-rich Gulf state.