On the agenda: everything from cutting greenhouse gas emissions, to adapting to extreme weather events, trading carbon emissions and gender inequality.
This year has once again seen the devastating effects of climate change on the planet. The summer season in the northern hemisphere was the warmest on record globally. At least 5 000 people were killed in Libya in the Mediterranean storm Daniel in September, while a wildfire on the Hawaiian island Maui killed at least 115 people. ADVERTISEMENT CONTINUE READING BELOW When is COP28? It starts on Thursday 30 November and is due to finish on Tuesday 12 December.
What is COP28? Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, addresses last years COP in Egypt Photographer: Islam Safwat/Bloomberg The COP process made a breakthrough deal in Paris in 2015, when all countries agreed for the first time to ensure that temperature rises stay well below 2 degrees Celcius compared to pre industrial levels and they set a stretch goal to ensure warming doesn’t breach 1.5 C. To achieve that means emissions should fall to “net zero” by the middle of the century.
Who can attend COP28? Delegates in traditional headdress attend the COP27 climate conference. Photographer: Islam Safwat/Bloomberg After COP28, countries will have until 2025 to submit new national plans to fight climate change — which will truly determine if the world is heading in the right direction.
Is COP28 destined to be a flop? A true COP flop is when no progress can be agreed at the end of the two weeks. This happened in Madrid in 2019, with COP25 ending in failure when the parties could not compromise on a final text in many areas. COP21 in Copenhagen in 2009 was also famously deemed a failure. Negotiators couldn’t reach a binding deal to cut greenhouse gases that was supposed to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expired in 2012.
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