The Guardian view on Cop28's final text: saying the right thing - and not a moment too soon | Editorial

Dec 13, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    32% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

12% Positive

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"After years of foregrounding private investment, public finance was emphasised in the Cop outcome."
Positive
22% Conservative
"In the European parliament, the backlash over the costs of environmental policies may see the Greens lose a quarter of their seats in elections later this year, and benefit far-right nationalists more likely to favour fossil fuels, fewer environmental regulations and less international climate cooperation."
Positive
16% Conservative
"Ahead of the Dubai summit, the UN said that under current policies, global temperatures were on track to rise 2.9C above pre-industrial levels - nearly double the goal cited in the climate summit final declaration."
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12% Conservative
"The UN Conference on Trade and Development estimates that 17 frontier technologies - from artificial intelligence to green hydrogen to biofuels - could create a market of more than $9.5tn by 2030."
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6% Conservative
"A report for the UN has stated that developing countries - excluding China - would need $2.4tn a year."
Positive
4% Conservative
"However, the economics and politics of the G7 and EU in the last decade have militated against the world coming together to solve the existential crisis."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Looming over this year's climate talks was the spectre of Donald Trump regaining the US presidency."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Looming over this year's climate talks was the spectre of Donald Trump regaining the US presidencyThe climate emergency needs better than this."
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-20% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : After years of foregrounding private investment, public finance was emphasised in the Cop outcome.
58% : In the European parliament, the backlash over the costs of environmental policies may see the Greens lose a quarter of their seats in elections later this year, and benefit far-right nationalists more likely to favour fossil fuels, fewer environmental regulations and less international climate cooperation.
56% : Ahead of the Dubai summit, the UN said that under current policies, global temperatures were on track to rise 2.9C above pre-industrial levels - nearly double the goal cited in the climate summit final declaration.
53% : The UN Conference on Trade and Development estimates that 17 frontier technologies - from artificial intelligence to green hydrogen to biofuels - could create a market of more than $9.5tn by 2030.
52% : A report for the UN has stated that developing countries - excluding China - would need $2.4tn a year.
41% : However, the economics and politics of the G7 and EU in the last decade have militated against the world coming together to solve the existential crisis.

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