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UAE’s climate summit chief pledges ‘brutally honest’ assessment on missed goals

COP28 president-designate Sultan Al Jaber tells G20 ministers in Brussels that Dubai conference will try to accelerate changeover from fossil fuels

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Sultan Al Jaber, president-designate of the COP28 climate conference (left), is welcomed to Brussels by European Council President Charles Michel

With less than five months until the COP28 environmental summit opens in Dubai, the event’s Emirati leader, Sultan Al Jaber, pledged to confront the world’s slow response to global warming.

Speaking in Brussels on Thursday, Al Jaber, president-designate of...