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Louise Boyle
Senior Climate Correspondent, Dubai
Thursday 30 November 2023 10:21 GMT
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The biggest climate event of the calendar, Cop28, begins on Thursday.

Hosted in Dubai, the UN’s Conference of the Parties will see world leaders and their delegations gather to try accelerate climate action – though many campaigners have voiced their scepticism because of its location.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of the world’s chief oil exporters and there have been recent allegations that the country was planning to use the conference to make commercial oil and gas deals with other countries.

Cop28’s president Sultan al-Jaber, who is also CEO of UAE’s national oil company Adnoc, has denied this.

Countries have been meeting through various Cops for nearly 30 years and while there has been some progress on climate action to reduce emissions and grow clean energy networks, experts have said much more needs to be done to avert total climate disaster.

The Cop28 agenda is packed and progess is much-needed on contentious issues, like climate finance, and countries’ emissions cuts. There will also need to be accountability on the headline-grabbing promises made at the Egypt summit, Cop27.

Cop28 will see the first “stocktake” since the Paris Agreement eight years ago — where countries take an inventory of their collective progress in cutting emissions to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (C) this century.

The Independent’s climate reporting team is in Dubai, offering you an up-close perspective of the two-week summit - and parsing what decisions and stumbling blocks mean for the world’s climate problems far beyond the doors of the negotiating halls.

Our daily briefing will be sent each evening from the Cop28 summit, highlighting the big events of the day and a behind-the-scenes perspective.

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