Responsible climate lobbying crucial for COP28’s success

Responsible climate lobbying crucial for COP28’s success

The European Union’s climate monitoring unit says the average global temperatures at the start of June this year were the warmest ever recorded. While the planet is warming at an alarming rate, researchers predict that due to increasing emissions and a possible El Nino weather pattern later this year, the world may pass the 1.5C global warming threshold within five years, though temporarily. At this critical time, the world is eagerly expecting a successful UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) this year that will take place in UAE. COP28 is particularly important as the world must take stock of its progress at the halfway point between Paris and 2030. In 2015 Paris, the world consented to limit global warming to 1.5C compared to preindustrial levels by 2050. In order to achieve that target, the world needs to reduce its emissions by 43 per cent by 2030. Though the first Global Stock Take (GST) at the COP28 will give a comprehensive assessment of the progress achieved in the last seven years, the United in Science 2022 report clearly states that greenhouse gas concentration continues to rise and the global carbon emission in 2022 was above the levels recorded before the pandemic. So,