Please use this shareable version responsibly. Consider sharing in a digital format before printing onto paper. To put it simply, the COP is where the world comes together to agree on ways to address the climate crisis, such as limiting global temperature rise to 1. Business leaders, young people, climate scientists, Indigenous Peoples, journalists, and various other experts and stakeholders are also among the participants. With the most important details of the Paris Climate Change Agreement negotiated and agreed over the last few years, COP 28 is all about implementing the Agreement and ramping up ambition and action.
This is critical to limit temperature rise to 1. COP 28 is an opportunity to identify global solutions for limiting global temperature rise to 1. The global stocktake has showed us we are not on track to limit global warming to 1. The window for meaningful change is closing, and the time to act is now. Governments will take a decision on the global stocktake at COP 28, which can be leveraged to accelerate ambition in their next round of climate action plans due by The global stocktake showed us where progress is too slow.
But it also laid out the vast array of tools and solutions put forward by countries. More about: The global stocktake. The conference comprises the annual meetings of the three decision-making bodies of the Convention, the Paris Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol. In these bodies, delegates of all member states discuss and decide on a wide variety of climate-related agenda items.
Other meetings happening at COP 28 include closed-door negotiations between the various delegations, mandated technical meetings, press conferences, a high-level segment for world leaders, side events and pavilion events.
Only Party delegations, Heads of State, admitted observers and the accredited press can enter the blue zone. Beyond the official UN-organized part of the conference, COP 28 is also a platform to showcase solutions and pathways from the global community and civil society.
