Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of COP28! We’ll be bringing you the latest as negotiations in Dubai approach the final stretch.
But first here’s an update on what you missed yesterday.
Food day got off to a flying start with the announcement that a “vanguard” of countries, including Brazil and Norway, are grouping together to transform their food and land use systems.
Established under the Paris Agreement in 2015, the global goal on adaptation (GGA) is a framework to help channel money for adaptation – and get it flowing on the same scale as finance for mitigation (which concerns supporting countries to cut emissions). After two years of work, a draft text on the GGA was published yesterday morning – to a mixed reception from campaigners and experts.
The International Energy Agency warned that emissions-cutting pledges made by more than 100 countries and 50 fossil fuel firms at the start of COP28 aren’t enough to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
If these pledges are delivered, it would reduce emissions by 4 billion metric tonnes of CO2 equivalents by 2030. That is 30 per cent of what is needed to limit warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
“They would not be nearly enough to move the world onto a path to reaching international climate targets,” the IEA said.
And, as the end of the summit rapidly approaches, COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber said late yesterday that he is urging countries to come to negotiations “prepared with solutions” and “ready to be flexible and accept compromise”.
The “time has come for us to switch gears”, he said.
Today, we await a draft text from the presidency that brings together all the strands of the conference – from fossil fuels to renewable energy, adaptation and climate finance.
UN chief Antonio Guterres is back in Dubai from Doha and has left leaders with three urgent appeals:
I have come back to #COP28, because we are on the brink of climate disaster & this conference must mark a turning point.
I am here to renew my urgent appeal to leaders:
Recommit to the 1.5°C warming limit.
End the fossil fuel age.
Deliver climate justice.
Make #COP28 count.
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) December 10, 2023