What is COP28 – and what can it achieve?
What is ‘COP’? COP stands for Conference of the Parties – and it is the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, now in it’s 28th year. The ‘parties’ are the original countries which signed up to the UN Climate change treaty in 1994. . The president of this year’s COP, which begins on 30 November in Dubai is Sultan Al Jaber, who is the president of the state oil company of the United Arab Emirates – a highly controversial choice. Over the years there have been numerous targets, agreements, hopes and disappointments at different COPs. The Paris agreement in [...]