The treaty’s overarching goal is to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and pursue efforts “to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels”.
Global leaders will head to Dubai in less than a week to negotiate the planet’s fate. The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as the 28th Conference of the Parties under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), will run from Nov 30 to Dec 12 in the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
This year’s climate summit marks eight years since the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international climate change treaty adopted by 196 parties at COP21 in Paris.
