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The controversial COP28 climate summit in Dubai ended with a deal that makes an unprecedented call for transitioning away from fossil fuels, but also includes “cavernous loopholes,” experts say.
Tens of thousands of people are heading to Dubai in early December for COP28, the annual international climate summit convened by the United Nations.
The COP conference has been held annually (except for the year 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) [1] since the first UN climate agreement in 1992. The event is intended for governments to agree on policies to limit global temperature rises and adapt to impacts associated with climate change. [2]
Teams of veteran negotiators fanned out Friday at the United Nations climate conference with orders to get the strongest, most ambitious agreements possible, especially on the central issue of the ...
COP 6 took place on 13–25 November 2000, in The Hague, Netherlands. Many in the international community and domestic environmental groups saw this meeting as a chance to finalize a Protocol that could secure ratification. Specifically, COP-6 was intended to complete work on the two-year Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA), agreed upon at COP-4 ...
[1] [2] Delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, [3] it was the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the third meeting of the parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement (designated CMA1, CMA2, CMA3), and the 16th meeting of the parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP16).
On 22 May, on International Day for Biological Diversity, he called for the world to build back better and preserve biodiversity after the COVID-19 pandemic. [38] On 28 May, the Secretary General called for greater "unity and solidarity" at a high-level funding meeting as he warned of 60 million pushed into extreme poverty; coming famines of ...
A chaotic COP. The summit took place at the end of a year “virtually certain” to be the hottest on record and one in which the world has been hammered by deadly extreme weather, including back ...