“What is it we want coming out of COP28? Well, the world has had a look… and it won’t surprise you to know that the world has concluded that we are not going fast enough. We have not done enough of what we promised to do,” says Sharma, who at COP26 brokered a pledge among nations to cut emissions and an explicit plan to reduce coal use — a first for the annual conference.
World leaders will have to work “extra hard” to seek consensus on climate action at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, says Sir Alok Sharma, president of COP26, which was held in Glasgow.
This comes as the Group of 20 (G20) countries failed to agree on a joint communique on tackling climate issues at talks in Bali and New Delhi, he adds.
