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The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP28, was the 28th United Nations Climate Change conference, held from 30 November to 12 December at Expo City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The COP conference has been held annually (except 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) since the first UN climate agreement in 1992. The event is intended for governments to agree on policies to limit global temperature rises and adapt to impacts associated with climate change.The conference was widely criticised for its controversial president Sultan Al Jaber as well as its hosting by the United Arab Emirates, which is known for its opaque environmental record and role as a major producer of fossil fuels. Sultan Al Jaber is the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), leading to concerns over conflict of interest; over 100 members of the US Congress and European Parliament called for the United Arab Emirates to vacate Jaber from the position. Claims of greenwashing of Jaber on Wikipedia through paid editing, the legal inability to criticise Emirati corporations in the UAE, covert access to conference emails by ADNOC, and the invitation of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad have all raised concerns regarding the integrity of the conference. Bot farms organised to defend Jaber and the UAE were also uncovered in June 2023. On 21 November, Jaber stated that there was "no science" behind fossil fuel phase-out in achieving 1.5 °C. Six days later, leaked documents appeared to show plans for the UAE to use the conference to strike new fossil fuel deals with other nations, sparking international outcry. Al Jaber denied these allegations, asserting that the UAE does not need the COP presidency to establish business deals.On 13 December, Al-Jaber announced that a final compromise agreement between the countries involved had been reached, with the deal "calling on" all nations to "transition away" from fossil fuels "in a just, orderly and equitable manner", in order to prevent the worst outcome of climate change, while also "accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science". The global pact was the first in the history of COP summits to explicitly mention the need to shift away from every type of fossil fuels, but it still received widespread criticism due to the lack of a clear commitment to either fossil fuel phase-out or phase-down.