2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference
Yearly conference held for climate change treaty negotiations
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| September 2024 | Ethics commissioner Jennifer Devins concluded in her report that while Johnstone's attendance was relevant to his mayoral duties, accepting gifts like travel and accommodation was not aligned with his official responsibilities. |
| February 2024 | Councilors Daniel Fontaine and Paul Minhas filed a complaint against Patrick Johnstone, alleging violation of state laws by accepting gifts to attend the COP28 summit. |
| 2023 | Pope Francis issued an apostolic exhortation called Laudate Deum, calling for urgent action against the climate crisis and condemning climate change denial. |
| December 2023 | Patrick Johnstone, New Westminster Mayor, attended the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, with expenses covered by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. |
| December 2023 | Conference participants pledged 85 billion dollars to various climate issues and made ten major international pledges covering areas such as climate finance, health, energy efficiency, agriculture, and global cooling. |
| December 13 2023 | Conference president Sultan Al Jaber announces final compromise agreement, known as the UAE Consensus, committing countries to move away from carbon energy sources and reach net zero by 2050 |
| December 12 2023 | Conference originally scheduled to end, but extended due to Saudi objections on the final agreement |
| December 11 2023 | Climate activist Licypriya Kangujam disrupted the COP28 conference by walking onto the main stage, holding up a sign reading 'End fossil fuels. Save our planet and our future', and delivering a brief speech. She was subsequently removed by security personnel and reportedly banned from further participation in the conference. |
| December 11 2023 | Initial draft of the final COP28 climate agreement was released, which was widely rejected by Western countries for avoiding a call to phase out fossil fuels. The draft was described by the Alliance of Small Island States as a 'death certificate' for small island nations. |
| December 6 2023 | OPEC Secretary-General Haitham al-Ghais urged member nations to focus negotiations on reducing carbon emissions rather than prohibiting fossil fuel extraction and sale during the UN Climate Change Conference. |
| December 4 2023 | COP28 President Sultan Al-Jaber held a press conference to walk back previous comments dismissing fossil fuel phase-out, now stating that he 'respects science' and believes a fossil fuel use phase-out is inevitable. |
| December 3 2023 | COP28 participants launched a declaration to triple nuclear energy capacity from 2020 to 2050, signed by 25 countries. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry unveiled the declaration, emphasizing nuclear power's role in reducing carbon emissions. |
| December 2 2023 | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a comprehensive phase-out of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) and reaffirmed Germany's commitment to achieving climate neutrality by 2045. |
| December 1 2023 | Climate activists protested outside the COP28 venue, calling for ecocide to be recognized as a crime at the International Criminal Court. |
| November 2023 | A pre-COP meeting was held with 100 delegations and 70 ministers attending, which was more participants than any previous pre-COP meeting. Majid al-Suwaidi, the COP general director, insisted the conference would create a loss and damage fund as agreed in the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference. |
| November 2023 | The Centre for Research on Energy reported that the UAE was regularly flaring methane gas, breaking its own regulations. |
| November 2023 | A pre-COP meeting of ministers was held with 100 delegations and 70 ministers attending, which was noted as the largest such preparatory meeting to date. |
| November 30 2023 | A 'loss and damage' fund was agreed upon to compensate poor states for climate change effects. The United Arab Emirates and Germany each pledged $100 million, with additional contributions from the United Kingdom ($75 million), United States ($24.5 million), and Japan ($10 million), bringing the total to $430 million on the first day of the summit. |
| November 30 2023 | COP28 Climate Change Conference begins in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with Sultan Al Jaber as conference president |
| November 27 2023 | Centre for Climate Reporting and BBC News reported leaked documents indicating UAE's intent to use COP28 as a platform for discussing fossil fuel deals with fifteen countries, including potential LNG opportunities with China. |
| November 21 2023 | Sultan Al Jaber made controversial remarks during a live online event, asserting no scientific basis for phasing out fossil fuels to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, drawing criticism from climate experts and UN officials. |
| November 15 2023 | The United States and China announced a joint agreement to triple global renewable energy use by 2030, including a commitment to addressing greenhouse gases, though the deal was criticized for not compelling China to phase out coal-fired power plants. |
| November 7 2023 | AFP investigation revealed leaked documents showing McKinsey was using its advisory position to COP28 hosts to push interests of oil and gas clients, potentially undermining climate goals by recommending continued fossil fuel investments. |
| September 2023 | FairSquare, a UK-based human rights group, released a report alleging migrant workers were exposed to dangerously hot weather and humidity while preparing the conference facility for COP28, with workers from Asia and Africa working outdoors in high temperatures despite a midday ban. |
| September 2023 | The United Nations published the first two-year 'global stocktake' assessment of global progress in slowing climate change, which concluded that a phase-out of fossil fuels is necessary and provided key insights into current climate action trajectories. |
| August 2023 | The Guardian revealed that the UAE had failed to report its methane emissions to the UN for nearly a decade. |
| August 4 2023 | First International Resources registered under the United States Foreign Agents Registration Act to represent Masdar, with the goal of reinforcing attitudes about the UAE's role in addressing climate change. The UAE agreed to pay a monthly retainer fee of $100,000 to the PR firm. |
| August 1 2023 | UAE announced that environmental activists would be allowed to assemble peacefully at the summit. |
| June 2023 | The Guardian reported that ADNOC shared an email server with COP28, potentially compromising summit communications. |
| February 2023 | Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) announced plans to expand fossil fuel drilling, one month after Sultan Al Jaber's selection as COP28 president. |
| 2022 | Fossil fuel subsidies reached a record high of 7.1 trillion dollars due to high fuel prices and inflation, highlighting the ongoing challenges in global energy economics. |
| 2021 | United Arab Emirates offered to host the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference. |
| November 2021 | Dubai was officially chosen as the host city for the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference. |
| September 21 2016 | UAE became the first country in the region to sign the Paris Agreement. |
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