Good morning. This is Natalie Hanman, bringing you coverage from the sixth day of the UN’s Cop28 climate summit.
The Guardian will be liveblogging the negotiations throughout, as always, and we look forward to your contributions: please email me on natalie.hanman@theguardian.com with thoughts and suggestions. Sandra Laville (sandra.laville@theguardian.com) will be taking over later on.
Today’s official themes are energy, industry, just transition and Indigenous peoples, so expect reports and news focused on those themes, as well as on the wider negotiations.
Yesterday, the main event was Sultan Al Jaber, the summit president, calling a surprise press conference after the Guardian revealed he had said a phase-out of fossil fuels would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.
Al Jaber defended his record, said he believes in the science behind the climate crisis and that Cop28 has been very successful so far.
He will be judged at the end of the summit – can he fulfil his pledge that an “unprecedented outcome” to keep alive hopes of limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C is within reach?
In other developments:
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Water Aid called for rich countries to do more to meet this year’s target of $300m for the climate adaptation fund.
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More than 1,000 climate scientists called for mass collective action to avert climate breakdown.
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Representatives of small island states said they would continue to demand a phaseout of fossil fuels – and hold Sultan Al Jaber to account for this.
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