Tag: COP28

Abu Dhabi, UAE — In a recent visit to Abu Dhabi, TIME Magazine sat down with Sultan Al Jaber, CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and head of COP28. Al Jaber’s role as both a fossil-fuel executive and COP28 president has incited debate over recent months, with some ...

Best foot forward on Loss and Damage This year’s COP started on a positive footing from day one, with the agreement to set up a Loss and Damage Fund to support those countries most affected by negative impacts of climate change. This agreement already delivered on one of the EU’s main...

This year’s COP, also known as Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, was held from 30 November to 12 December, in Dubai. The aim of these conferences is for governments to agree on policies to restrain global temperature rises and adjust to the effects of climate change. Although, this year...

Let’s start with the host nation: holding COP28, or any other COP in Dubai didn’t augur well. Then the conference president, sultan Al Jaber, the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company, Adnoc, claimed there is “no science” indicati...

On November 30, the COP28 United Nations Climate Change Conference formally opened at Expo City, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Caribbean heads-of-state, government ministers, and advisors descended on Dubai two short weeks after the Saudi Arabia-CARICOM Summit in Riyadh. At this stop on thei...

Our planet teeters on the edge. We have used up so much of the Earth’s carbon budget that there are only a few years left to save it. We need global, cohesive and massive action immediately to avoid a worldwide catastrophe. As such, COP28 might be not only the most critical climate summit ever...

With COP28 coming to a close, we wanted to send a sincere thank you to everyone who joined our events either at our hub in Emirates Towers, at kyu House or in the Blue or Green Zones at Expo City throughout November 27 -December 13. Our purpose in coming together for these events was to se...

COP28 bowed to pressure from OPEC who requested OPEC nations ‘proactively reject’ targeting fossil fuels. These OPEC nations are hugely rich and have plenty of time and resources to switch to solar-wind and make money from it too. If you want to see a prosperous, carbon neutral future...