Put into effect in 1994, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the precedent for global environmental protection, opening the way to the Conference of the Parties to the Convention or COP.
This year, the 28th Conference of the Parties, will be hosted by the United Arab Emirates, under four cross-cutting areas: "Accelerating Energy; Fixing Climate Finance; and Focusing on Nature, People, Lives and Livelihoods; Full Inclusion."[1] (COP28, 2023)
Lasting two weeks, the event will include the Global Climate Action Summit, as well as a call to accelerate implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted last December 2022, in order to "halt and reverse biodiversity loss."[2] (UNEP, 2022)
Through a Letter to the Parties, the organizers of this global forum pointed out the priority vision of the forum: to conduct a comparative analysis on the progress made in the care and protection of the environment since the signing of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Through a series of exchanges of dialogue, data and information gathering among the Parties, the COP28 seeks profound changes to change the current archetype, to improve and transcend in terms of: emissions reduction, accessibility of climate finance, especially with developing countries, retaking the subjects of action, such as the environment and people, as the axis of climate action, as well as youth inclusion to achieve climate agreements also in an intergenerational way.
To have a successful COP28, it is necessary to comply with the agreements made related to the environment, unlike other COPs, it is necessary to include the global south in all its aspects: financially, multilaterally, as well as in terms of cooperation at the regional level, as well as that civil society and people are truly taken into account in decision-making on the environment.
Climate inclusion through access to information for vulnerable groups is fundamental and necessary for everyone to understand what climate change is and to truly participate in caring for the environment, which must be strengthened through climate diplomacy, in order to achieve dialogue and the true inclusion of all people in this primary objective: caring for the environment.
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