Climate advocates demand stronger COP28 language on fossil fuels
The latest COP28 draft outcome text released to negotiators in Dubai Monday evening dropped a call to ‘phaseout’ fossil fuels, prompting outcry from climate vulnerable countries and civil society. Read Full Story on UN News
COP28: The UN’s net-zero food plan to save the 1.5-degree goal, combat climate ‘doomisim’
As COP28 heads into its final working days in Dubai, the UN’s agriculture wing launched on Sunday a ground-breaking plan that looks to transform the world’s agrifood systems from a net emitter to a carbon [...]
COP28: UN says staggering $7 trillion spent every year on investments that fuel climate change
Nearly $7 trillion of public and private finance each year supports activities that directly harm nature – some 30 times the amount spent on nature-based solutions annually, according to a shocking UN report launched on [...]
Our voices and needs must be put first in climate talks, young people tell COP28
Young climate advocates at COP28 in Dubai on Friday said they will not sit idly by while climate change threatens their futures. They said their voices and ideas can help rescue the planet and demanded [...]
COP28 in Dubai enters final week, negotiations ramp up on emissions cuts, fossil fuels
After a break, COP28 continues its work on Friday, also the day talks on an outcome text kick into high gear. Negotiators are trying to agree on how to bolster emissions-cutting targets set by the [...]
COP28 is about action, not politics and point scoring, says UN climate chief
UN climate chief Simon Stiell said on Wednesday that COP28 delegates are not in Dubai to “score points” and play at “lowest-denominator politics”; they must take ambitious action on curbing global warming and ending the [...]