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Participants arrive for a plenary session during the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 13, 2023. A draft UN climate deal called on December 13 for the world to transition away from fossil fuels, in a last-ditch bid to break a deadlock between nations seeking a phase-out from oil, gas and coal and Saudi-led crude producers. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)
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A boat motors by as the Bidwell Bar Bridge is surrounded by fire in Lake Oroville during the Bear fire in Oroville, California on September 9, 2020. - Dangerous dry winds whipped up California's record-breaking wildfires and ignited new blazes Tuesday, as hundreds were evacuated by helicopter and tens of thousands were plunged into darkness by power outages across the western United States. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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TOPSHOT - A firefighter walks toward flames as the Highland Fire burns in Aguana, California, on October 31, 2023. Thousands of people were being told to flee a wildfire spreading in southern California on October 31, as strong winds fanned the flames. Around 5,700 people were urged to leave areas threatened by the blaze, which erupted on October 30 around lunchtime and had engulfed 2,200 acres (900 hectares) by the following morning. (Photo by DAVID SWANSON / AFP) (Photo by DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 01: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales speaks during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 at SECC on November 1, 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. World Leaders attending COP26 are under pressure to agree measures to deliver on emission reduction targets that will lead the world to net-zero by 2050. Other goals of the summit are adapting to protect communities and natural habitats, mobilising $100billion in climate finance per year and get countries working together to meet the challenges of the climate crisis. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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