COP28: Fossil Fuels in Draft Text Shows Climate Talks Get Better - Bloomberg
COP28: Fossil Fuels in Draft Text Shows Climate Talks Get Better - Bloomberg
Climate Talks Always Fail, But They Are Failing Better
All the treaties and coalitions are merely tools to meet the end of emissions reduction.
Climate diplomacy. Photographer: Annie Sakkab/Bloomberg
Another 12 months have passed. Another 36.8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide have been spewed into the atmosphere. After three decades of climate meetings, emissions are still increasing, when they should be falling. At the COP28 summit in Dubai, there’s more interminable arguments over the wishy-washy verbiage in a treaty that most of the world seems determined to flout.
Welcome to the world of climate diplomacy. Every two steps forward is accompanied by one or two steps back. There will be many more tame promises and milquetoast deals before this process is done.
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Talks are well underway in preparation for the next major international meeting on climate change, 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), scheduled to begin Nov. 30 in the United Arab Emirates.
Much like last year’s COP27, finances — specifically, aid to developing nations — will be at the center of conference deliberations.
The conference faces an even greater sense of urgency brought on by the Sept. 8, 2023, release of the first global stocktake, which calls for accelerated action to meet the goals set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement (COP21).
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