Paris (AFP) Dec 13, 2023
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After nearly three decades of dancing around the chief driver of global warming, UN climate negotiations in oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Wednesday called for the first time for the world to "transition away" from polluting fossil fuels.
The landmark first for the UN process was laid out in a text designed to respond to the failure so far to meet the Paris deal's more ambitious - and saf