to vote and then flew back to dubai to vote and then flew back to dubai to speak at the end of the summit. that is how worried the government was yesterday. in the end, they actually won by a fairly comfortable majority. but at what price?, that is the key question today. some of those conservatives who might have rebelled think that rishi sunak and his team might be willing to entertain concessions, toughen up the legislation and we heard on the bbc earlier from james cleverly, the home secretary about that. the bbc earlier from james cleverly, the home secretary about that.- home secretary about that. the bill has not to home secretary about that. the bill has got to work. home secretary about that. the bill has got to work. it s home secretary about that. the bill has got to work. it s got home secretary about that. the bill has got to work. it s got to - home secretary about that. the bill has got to work. it s got to be - has got to work. it s got to be legally ha
the president of cop28 sultan al jabar said it s an historic agreement that sets the world in the right direction. but many had wanted a stronger form of words, calling for the phasing out of coal, oil and gas. our climate editorjustin rowlatt has been following the negotiations around the demands and interests of various groups. we waited and we waited and then. hearing no objection, it is so decided. ..with the bang of a gavel, the deal was done. applause and it got a standing ovation. so the hammer has just gone down here in dubai, and that is the fastest that an agreement text has ever been agreed. the president, dr sultan aljaber, he s calling this an historic agreement, but it is hedged around with questions and doubts. it calls on countries to contribute to ambitious actions to tackle climate change. now, i could do a single plate and claim to have contributed to doing the washing up, but would you consider that i had really pulled my weight? the president of these
there were many pledges connected to nature on mangroves. there was a mangrove breakthrough. there were pledges, as you mentioned, in the pacific in the formal text, we saw some recognition of nature. we have been seen that since the cop in glasgow. it s time to now operationalize those pledges and those promises and those good intentions because now we have a framework, the global biodiversity framework that came out of kunming last year and we need to connect that with this convention here to maximise the benefits of nature to society. so this is very, very important. and we also saw a call for countries to reduce deforestation by 2030, to eliminate deforestation, and we think that s important. in glasgow we had a pledge that was outside the formal negotiations and here it made it to the negotiation somehow. briefly, if you don t mind, but you re from brazil. the cop30 will be hosted in brazil, actually in the amazon. what s the significance of that, especially given the im