COP28 Climate Summit to Address Global Warming Adaptation

Controversy surrounds UAE's appointment of fossil-fuel executive as COP president, as major concerns include finalizing a 'loss and damage' fund and ramping down fossil fuels.

COP28, the annual international climate summit convened by the United Nations, is set to take place in Dubai in early December. The summit will focus on how the world should adapt to more deadly heatwaves, stronger storms and catastrophic sea level rise due to climate change.
The United Arab Emirates, a major oil-producing nation, has faced criticism for appointing a top fossil-fuel executive as its COP president. However, the UAE has embarked on a major campaign to boost its green credentials ahead of the summit.
Major concerns at COP28 will be finalizing a 'loss and damage' fund and discussing how to ramp down planet-warming fossil fuels. The fund would help transfer money from the richest countries, responsible for the majority of the climate crisis, to poor countries, where the impacts have hit hardest.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is charged with reducing global climate emissions. The UNFCCC convenes a meeting called the Conference of the Parties or COP every year to negotiate collective action to reduce global emissions.
The U.S. is slated to outline the first global strategy for commercializing nuclear fusion power at COP28. U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry plans to argue that nuclear fusion can be scaled up in a matter of years, rather than decades.