Dubai’s Gilded COP28 Summit Changes Climate Talks Forever
- Monster UAE meeting is ‘peak COP’ with over 100,000 attendees
- Lavish hospitality stokes fears of distracting negotiations
Participants walk on the allies of conference venue during COP28 in Dubai on Dec. 4.
Photographer: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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Dubai, home of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, has applied the same logic of size and opulence to its hosting of the United Nations climate summit — an event with one key goal: to put the world back on track to keeping global warming below 1.5C.