STORY: Delegates worldwide gather in Dubai to find global climate response at COP28
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 1, 2023
DATELINE: Dec. 1, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:38
LOCATION: Dubai
CATEGORY: POLITICS/ENVIRONMENT

SHOTLIST:
1. various of COP28
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SULTAN AHMED AL JABER, COP28 president
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): SIMON STIELL, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary
4. various of COP28

STORYLINE:

The 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change, started Thursday afternoon in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, calling for accelerating global climate response.

This year's climate conference has garnered notable global attention as it marks the conclusion of the Global Stocktake, the first-ever two-year assessment of the world's collective progress toward the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SULTAN AHMED AL JABER, COP28 president
"The new road starts with a decision on the Global Stocktake, a decision that is ambitious, corrects course and accelerates action to 2030.
This Presidency is committed to unlocking (green) finance to ensure that the Global South does not have to choose between development and climate action."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): SIMON STIELL, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary
"We are taking baby steps. Stepping far too slowly from an unstable world that lacks resilience to working out the best responses to the complex impacts (of climate change) we are facing.
Science tells us we have around six years before we exhaust the planet's ability to cope with our emissions before we blow through the 1.5-degree limit."

The conference, running from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, will welcome more than 70,000 delegates from around the globe in a bid to work out a worldwide solution to the pressing climate issues facing the planet and all mankind.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Dubai.
(XHTV)