100 days to COP28: UAE readies to welcome the world to deliver transformative climate action

100 days to COP28: UAE readies to welcome the world to deliver transformative climate action

ABU DHABI, 22nd August, 2023 (WAM) -- The COP28 UAE Presidency today is using the occasion of being 100 days away from the world's largest annual climate summit, COP28, to call on the world to come to the UAE ready to make transformational and practical progress towards addressing the climate crisis.

COP28 will feature the first Global Stocktake to measure progress against the goals and ambitions set out in the Paris Agreement at COP21. However, we don’t need to wait for the Global Stocktake to tell us that we are way off track.

To address this and to deliver a major course correction, the COP28 Presidency has stated its determination to deliver ambitious negotiated outcomes and a practical action agenda. The objective of this collective action is to turn pledges and promises into progress to address the climate crisis.

The COP28 Presidency has set out four key pillars to deliver the necessary course correction. Those include fast-tracking a just, orderly, and equitable energy transition; fixing climate finance; focusing on people, lives, and livelihoods; and underpinning everything with full inclusivity.

COP28 in the UAE will convene global stakeholders to provide practical solutions across these pillars that are intended to unite the world and keep 1.5°C