COP28 starts tomorrow: What to expect from UN’s annual climate negotiations

As the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) starts on Thursday, the world turns its attention to the climate negotiations.

COP28 will deliver the first report card of climate action. Here’s what to expect from the summit in Dubai where 70,000 delegates representing 198 countries will gather from November 30 to December 12.

‘Global stock take’ (GST)

At COP28, the leaders of member countries will sit down to take stock of what the world is really doing to address global temperature rise and climate change. This evaluation, termed the global stock take (GST), is scheduled to occur every five years,