Money, Oil and Fights Over Emissions: What to Watch at COP28
Here are five things to keep on your radar as countries prepare for United Nations climate talks in Dubai at the end of November.
Climate activists protest in France in June 2023.
Photographer: Benjamin Girette/BloombergGovernments worldwide are facing increasing pressure to step up the fight against global warming as almost every corner of the planet battles wildfires, heat waves and other deadly impacts from rising temperatures.
Climate change is set to be at the top of the agenda at the United Nations annual meeting in New York next week. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will seek to build momentum before global COP28 climate talks hosted by the United Arab Emirates at the end of November. Even as 2023 is on course to be the hottest year on record, it’s looking more difficult than ever to meet an internationally agreed target to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius before the end of the century.
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