After almost two weeks of intense negotiations, that’s a wrap on COP28.
Taking place in Dubai, UAE, from Nov. 30 and going into overtime on Dec. 13, a lot was riding on the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28.
The climate crisis has been hard at work throughout 2023 with UN Secretary General, António Guterres warning in September that: “Humanity has opened the gates of hell.” Wildfires in Argentina and Canada. Flooding in India, Cameroon, and Libya. Extreme heat across the US, Europe, and Asia. A cyclone in Myanmar. A tropical storm hitting Japan, Guam, the Philippines, and Taiwan. The list goes on.
This year’s COP was a significant milestone: the first assessment of how countries are faring against emissions-cutting commitments made at Paris in 2015 (known as the Paris agreement). This process is known as the “global stocktake.”
