Can COP 28 steer climate change back on course?
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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