COP28 in Dubai: Climate negotiations at crossroads

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Another year will soon pass, another 'Conference of the Parties' to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ('COP') will convene.

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17 Oct 2023

This time the 28^th COP will meet in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates during 30 November – 12 December. Doubtless, the legacy media will soon be inundating us with wall-to-wall coverage of yet another attempt at the UN concert of nations to ‘save the planet’. Now that we are three years short of three decades of COP negotiations to handle an asserted “climate emergency” allegedly caused by human-driven greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, what progress have we made?

The “settled science” narrative put out by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the layperson and the mass media is contained in a government-approved “summary for policy makers.” These SPMs are based on Assessment Reports (the 6^th synthesis report was published in March 2023) compiled by scientists who are themselves often appointed by governments. Following each of these summary reports, countless mainstream media stories