Adnan Amin, who is the CEO and number two official at the upcoming Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai in late November and December, is hoping for a "course correction".
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00:00 Climate change paused, cleaner oceans and air, thriving biodiversity, all ambitions
00:07 that could be achieved through global consensus. The UAE is hosting the next UN Summit, COP
00:13 28, from November. One of its directors told the Associated Press he's optimistic but acknowledges
00:20 difficulties.
00:23 There are a significant number of countries that are opposed to the language of phase
00:28 out. The way the COP process works, and I think maybe this is part of the frustration
00:33 with the COP process, is that it works by consensus. You need only one country to say
00:38 no and you don't have an agreement.
00:40 As some countries, such as the UK, shy away from energy transition deadlines, can a summit
00:46 hosted by a major fossil fuel exporter offer credible solutions?
00:50 I hope. I hope they will be saying, "We didn't think that a process that we thought was blah,
00:55 blah, blah, could achieve an outcome of this sort." But that was the course correction
01:00 that the world needed to get us to a place of comfort for all of us.
01:07 Climate change protesters continue to challenge global leaders to change course. But eight
01:12 years after COP 21 in Paris agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C, it would
01:18 seem COP 28 has its work cut out to prevent deadlines from slipping and temperatures rising.
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