COP28 anger as pledge to ‘phase out’ fossil fuels removed from draft text

COP28 anger as pledge to ‘phase out’ fossil fuels removed from draft text
We will not go silent to our watery graves - that's the warning from one of the small island nations most at risk from climate change - after a pledge to "phase out" fossil fuels was removed from the COP28 final agreement.

After intensive lobbying by oil rich nations - the draft text refers to "reducing" their use instead. Also absent are the words "oil and gas". And that's sparked a growing outcry - our chief correspondent Alex Thomson in the newsroom.