The COP28 Climate Conference, which the UAE is hosting, has received praise from many leaders and officials as being the most notable and significant of the Parties' climate conferences.
The COP28 Climate Conference, which the UAE is hosting, has received praise from many leaders and officials as being the most notable and significant of the Parties' climate conferences.
The summit not only attracted the largest number of participants in climate summit history but also marked a significant event that yielded historic achievements.
These achievements captured the attention of global media, which focused heavily on covering this significant global event. The most notable achievement was the 'approval of the Loss and Damage Fund,' a milestone that began at the previous summit and culminated under the UAE's leadership at the current 'COP28.'
Following the conclusion of the last summit, the UAE presidency of the conference began working on this project, announcing its success in the early days of 'COP28.' The British newspaper The Guardian paid special attention to this achievement.
Fiona Harvey and Nina Lakhani noted in their co-authored article that all delegations participating in the summit warmly welcomed the decision. The authors highlighted that both the UAE and Germany pledged $100 million to the proposed fund to compensate poor and most vulnerable countries for damages caused by climate change.
The article also explained that these contributions would increase pressure on other wealthy nations to announce similar financial support to aid the nascent fund. This achievement also attracted attention from The Indian Press, which described the approval of the fund as a promising start to the summit.
Writer Kaushik Das Gupta, in his coverage of the summit, noted that the delegates were on the right track regarding the Loss and Damage Fund, expecting a series of continued successes with decisions aimed at reducing emissions.
The New York Times highlighted a summit commitment by 22 nations, including the United States, to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050. Writer Jenny Gross supported the document's assertion that reviving nuclear energy is critical to reducing carbon emissions to nearly zero in the coming decades.
Numerous media outlets also highlighted the Health Day at the summit, marking the first integration of health into the climate summit's agenda. Writers Rosie Frost and Ruth Wright of Euronews quoted John Kerry, the U.S. climate envoy, expressing his admiration for the focus on health.
He was surprised that health had not been a focal point in previous summits, stating, 'It's amazing to me that it took this long for health to become a focus in climate discussions. Our bodies are ecosystems, and the world is an ecosystem. If you poison our land, water, and air, you are poisoning our bodies.
