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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

COP28: What you missed while you slept

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Ryan Bachoo
605 days ago
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Photo courtesy UNFCCC

Ryan Ba­choo

Now wak­ing up in the Caribbean? Here's what you need to know about day four of COP28 to start your day.

- Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment Pen­ne­lope Beck­les tells a side event at COP28 that rur­al com­mu­ni­ties must not be for­got­ten in ear­ly warn­ing sys­tems.

- A new UN re­port re­leased to­day finds that 101 coun­tries now have some sort of ear­ly warn­ing sys­tem in place, up six from last year and dou­ble the num­ber in 2015.

- The UK Guardian is ex­clu­sive­ly re­port­ing the pres­i­dent of Cop28, Sul­tan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no sci­ence” in­di­cat­ing that a phase-out of fos­sil fu­els is need­ed to re­strict glob­al heat­ing to 1.5C. The ar­ti­cle says Al Jaber made the com­ments in ill-tem­pered re­spons­es to ques­tions from Mary Robin­son, the chair of the El­ders group and a for­mer UN spe­cial en­voy for cli­mate change, dur­ing a live on­line event on 21 No­vem­ber. As well as run­ning Cop28 in Dubai, Al Jaber is al­so the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates’ state oil com­pa­ny, Ad­noc, which many ob­servers see as a se­ri­ous con­flict of in­ter­est.

- Hun­dreds of peo­ple gath­er at COP28 to call for a cease­fire at a Pales­tin­ian sol­i­dar­i­ty event held at the Con­fer­ence.

- Hillary Clin­ton is in Dubai high­light­ing the dis­pro­por­tion­ate im­pact of the cli­mate cri­sis up­on women.

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