Cop28: EU threatens to walk from climate summit over 'get out of jail card for fossil fuel industry'

Licypriya Kangujam protests against fossil fuels during the Cop28 UN Climate Summit on Monday. Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool

The UN's climate change summit "is on the verge of complete failure" as the EU and other countries threaten to walk away from negotiations in a row over the future of fossil fuels.

Despite evidence that the world is continuing to warm far beyond the 1.5C mark that scientists say is needed to stave off the worst of climate change, the final hours of Cop28 in Dubai threaten to unravel with the "phasing out" of fossil fuels like oil and gas removed from the draft text agreement that nearly 200 countries need to agree in order to strike a deal.