John Kerry, the US special presidential envoy for climate, and Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, president of Cop28, at the climate summit in Dubai on Saturday. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The United States and 21 other countries pledged on Saturday at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050, saying the revival of nuclear power was critical for cutting carbon emissions to near zero in the coming decades.

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