World leaders at COP28 finally agreed a deal to move away from using fossil fuels.

COP28 is the United Nations’ climate conference, where leading figures from 198 countries around the world meet each year to discuss the climate crisis and how to fix it. This year, it was hosted by Dubai, but it overran to finish on Wednesday 13 December.

A deal was eventually struck which will help to limit temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. However, some governments aren’t happy as the plans don’t state that fossil fuels will be phased out. Fossil fuels are coal, oil and gas that release carbon into the atmosphere. Carbon causes global warming, which is having devastating effects around the world.

The president of COP28, Sultan al-Jaber (who is also the boss of a major oil company in Abu Dhabi) said nations have “set the world in the right direction.”

On the eve of the last day of the conference, the stage was stormed by Licypriya Kangujam, a 12-year-old girl from India who recently appeared on First News’ partner Sky News show, FYI. She carried a sign that read “End fossil fuels. Save our planet and our future” and shouted for leaders to “Act now!”