COP28 UAE: A crucial turning point for climate action

COP28 UAE: A crucial turning point for climate action

Tens of thousands of people will soon arrive in Dubai for COP28. Most of those delegates are coming to drive ambition in the face of an ever-escalating climate crisis and an increasingly fragile multilateral world. As they do so, the message is clear: we simply don’t have the time left for a COP of dither or delay.



The organisation I lead – the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation – is one of the largest funders of climate action in the world, with offices in London, Beijing, Delhi, Addis, and Nairobi. We work as we do because the climate crisis is the single biggest threat to children’s futures.





That is why we have spent over a decade bolstering the COP process, whether that’s working to support progress in the formal negotiations or catalysing transformation on issues like decarbonisation and youth