25/02/2024
: Dr Ian Cochran reflects on COP28 - Naming the elephant in the room, but not showing it the door.
"While only one of close to a hundred agenda items up for discussion at the COP28, the “Global Stocktake” text (now dubbed as the ‘UAE Consensus’) captured the attention of both delegates and those watching from around the world.
The Global Stocktake is an integral part of the architecture of the Paris Agreement agreed to by countries in 2015, requiring stakeholders to ‘take stock’ of progress to achieving collective climate goals. Taking place every five years, COP28 saw the conclusion of the first cycle. This process is seen as important to provide clear signals on how global climate action needs to ‘ratch up’ to put us on a sufficiently ambitious pathway to achieve our collective climate goals."
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Director of Impact at B-CCaS, Dr Ian Cochran, reflects on a contentious COP28, which he attended alongside students from the MSc Climate Change Finance & Investment programme.