Landmark Agreements at COP28: What Happened and What’s Next For Climate Change?
Will COP28 truly make a difference in the fight against climate change?
World leaders have reached a historic new agreement to tackle climate change at a big UN meeting in Dubai. But what does it actually mean for the future of the planet?
COP28 was the United Nations’ 28th annual climate meeting, where governments debated how to limit and prepare for the global challenge of tackling future climate change.
The summit took place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 30 November to 12 December 2023. It followed a year of extreme weather events in which many climate records were broken.
During the summit, Sultan al-Jaber, the UAE’s chief executive of its state-owned oil company, was appointed president. The decision to host the summit in the UAE had caused some controversy, due to the nation being one of the world’s top 10 biggest oil producers.
Despite this, Mr Jaber had argued that he was uniquely well-placed to push for action from the oil and gas industry.
An end in sight for fossil fuels
For the first time in the summit’s history, countries agreed on the need to “transition away…
