Approximately 70,000 world delegates and negotiators are expected to meet in Dubai for the United Nation’s COP28 climate summit from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, assessing progress countries have made under the Paris Agreement targets.
Before the summit, renewable energy associations and United Arab Emirates, host of COP28, has urged governments across the globe to double renewable energy capacity by 2030 to keep global warming below 1.5 degree Celsius.
Here’s five essential things you need to know before Dubai summit begins.
Pre-COP to the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference. (Photo: COP28)
What is COP28?
COP28 is the 28th iteration of the UN climate conference.
The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNCFFF) held its first session in 1995. The annual conference is the oldest in history and largest in scale aiming at addressing the problem of climate change. There are 197 countries that have signed the UNFCCC.
The two-weeks summits bring together world leaders and experts to address climate crisis on a global level. The state parties have signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and the Paris Agreement in 2016 to unify the fight against rising global temperatures.
Beyond the official UN-organized part of the conference, COP28 is also a platform for businesses, NGOs and civil society to find solutions and pathways to issues such as food safety, water resources, and transitional justice.
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During the COP28, all the official sessions, meetings, and press conference are taking place in the Blue Zone, where only accredited party, observer delegates, and press can enter. The Green Zone is open to all individual participants to facilitate communication and partnership between public and private sectors.
