Stronger Cop20 text stops short of calling for phasing out of fossil fuels

A man holds a sign that reads end fossil fuels at the Cop28 UN Climate Summit (Rafiq Maqbool/AP)

The proposed final agreement from the UN Cop28 Climate Summit in Dubai calls for the world to wean itself off planet-warming fossil fuels, but it stops short of calling for them to be phased out.

More than 100 countries had called for that to be included in the final text after an initial draft was released.