The United Nations Climate Change Conference is a yearly conference held under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) framework. The Conference of Parties began in the mid-1990s. It served as a platform to evaluate the parties’ progress on climate change and establish new milestones for the parties to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
The 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) to the UNFCCC is scheduled to convene from 30 November to 12 December 2023 in the United Arab Emirates. This COP will focus on transforming systems and disrupting 2030 trajectories by ramping up climate progress across mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, climate finance and innovating the process through private sector engagement, inclusion, accountability & transparency. This COP will double as the first global stocktake to evaluate global progress on carbon emission reduction and chart the way forward for better impact.
The elected President-Designate of COP28 is Dr Sultan Al Jaber. HE Razan Al Mubarak is the UN Climate High-Level Champion, and HE Shamma Al Mazrui is the Youth Climate Champion. The official logo of the event has been unveiled. The spherical logo conceptualises a “One World” on a dark and light green background displaying renewable energy technologies, humans, animals and vegetation. It symbolises that COP28 is COP for everyone while highlighting the urgency for climate action.
In retrospect, a highlight of previous COPs with locations and year.
(COP1) was held in Berlin, Germany, in 1995.
(COP2) was held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1996.
(COP3) was held in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997.
(COP4) was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1998.
(COP5) was held in Bonn, Germany, in 1999.
(COP6) was held in Hague, Netherlands, in 2000.
(COP6) was held in Bonn, Germany, in 2001.
(COP7) was held in Marrakech, Morocco, in 2001.
(COP8) was held in New Delhi, India, in 2002.
(COP9) was held in Milan, Italy, in 2003.
(COP10) was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2004.
(COP11) was held in Montreal, Canada, in 2005.
(COP12) was held in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2006.
(COP13) was held in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007.
(COP14) was held in Poznań, Poland, in 2008.
(COP15) was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2009.
(COP16) was held in Cancún, Mexico, in 2010.
(COP17) was held in Durban, South Africa, in 2011.
(COP18) was held in Doha, Qatar, in 2012.
(COP19) was held in Warsaw, Poland, in 2013.
(COP20) was held in Lima, Peru, in 2014.
(COP21) was held in Paris, France, in 2015.
(COP22) was held in Marrakech, Morocco, in 2016.
(COP23) was held in Bonn, Germany, in 2017.
(COP24) was held in Katowice, Poland, in 2018.
(COP25) was held in Madrid, Spain, in 2019.
(COP26) was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom, in 2021.
(COP27) was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in 2022.
(COP28) will hold in Dubai, UAE, in 2022.
This year in UAE is themed “The Year of Sustainability”. It is focused on driving Sustainability development throughout the country. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. Therefore, it is time to fight climate change and build a sustainable world unitedly we will be proud to live in and hand down to generations.