The world leaders are getting out for the COP 28 summit, and a new report has now shared more details about one of the pledges there. According to a report by the news agency AFP, next month a cooling pledge will be unveiled.

COP28 Climate Summit 2023: France shares new "Coal Exclusion Policy" ahead of COP 28

COP28 climate summit in Dubai: France shares 'new coal exclusion policy'

Global fossil fuel production in the next seven years will be more than double the levels pushing the world far beyond the climate goals, including the 1.5 degree Celsius target, set under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, said the United Nations and researchers, on Wednesday (Nov 8).

Global fossil fuel production plans threaten 1.5 degree Celsius warming threshold: UN report

US President Joe Biden is unlikely to attend a gathering of world leaders in November focused on climate change, according to two US officials and another person briefed on the event's planning.

Biden unlikely to attend Dubai COP28 climate meeting: Report

More than 46.3 million healthcare professionals, in a joint letter, have urged Sultan Al Jaber, the president of the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, to ensure a favourable outcome and help ditch fossil fuels for a “just, equitable and healthy future for all”.

Over 46 million health professionals ask COP28 President to ditch fossil fuels

The world leaders are getting out for the COP 28 summit, a new report has now shared more details about one of the pledges there. According to a report by the news agency AFP, next month a cooling pledge will be unveiled.

COP28: India, China likely to avoid 'cooling pledge'; India to join COP28 in UAE in November

Pope Francis on Wednesday (Oct 4) urged participating countries of the upcoming COP28 climate talks to agree over binding policies for phasing out of fossil fuels.

Pope urges climate action in COP28, decries 'irresponsible' Western lifestyle

Ahead of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) summit scheduled to be held in Dubai later this year, senior executives from UAE's national oil company are said to be working with the COP28 team, providing ‘support’ to handle the all-important climate summit, a Guardian report has claimed.

Top UAE oil company executives working with COP28 team, show leaked documents

Ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, the Global Renewable Alliance (GRA), comprising over 200 organisations, has issued an open letter calling for the urgent need to triple renewable energy capacity to a minimum of 11,000 GW at COP28, scheduled for this year.

Global Renewable Alliance calls on leaders for tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030 at COP28

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday (July 15), during his one-day visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said that he would attend the upcoming United Nations climate conference hosted in Dubai.

PM Modi to attend UN climate summit in Dubai, assures India’s full support for UAE’s COP28 presidency

The upcoming United Nations COP28 climate summit has yet again come under fire after a report by the British newspaper, The Guardian, on Wednesday (June 7), revealed that an Emirati state oil firm was able to read email exchanges between organisers and was also “consulted” on how to respond to the media inquires.

UAE state oil firm was able to read email exchanges about COP28 climate summit: Report

Ahead of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) summit scheduled to be held later this year in Dubai, its President Sultan Al Jaber has found himself in the middle of a controversy.

Greenwashing at finest? COP28 president's Wikipedia entries being edited

Over 130 lawmakers from the European Union and the United States are urging the removal of oil executive Sultan Al Jaber as the president of the upcoming COP28 climate talks.

More than 100 US and EU lawmakers push to remove Sultan Al Jaber as COP28 head

UAE COP28 president designates Sultan al-Jaber says that the oil and gas industry should phase out its methane emissions by 2030 and that investment in technology was needed to develop carbon alternatives. Hem Kaur Saroya brings you the report.

World not ready yet to 'switch off' fossil fuels: Jaber

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said on Thursday (January 12) that Sultan Al Jaber, the head of the country's Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), would lead this year's COP28 climate summit.

UAE makes oil boss Al Jaber head of COP28; activists say its worse than fox guarding the henhouse

The United Nations-mediated climate talks will take place in the UAE from November 30 through December 12. The development organisation ActionAid's global lead on climate justice, Teresa Anderson, warned that this nomination "goes beyond putting the fox in control of the henhouse."

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