From Crisis to Action: The Climate Extremes of 2023 and COP28

November 16, 2023 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am | Online

The COP28 U.N. Climate Conference, to be hosted by the UAE, will commence at the end of a consequential year in terms of climate change and climate action. Summer 2023 was the hottest ever documented. And an unprecedented month of extreme and high temperatures in July saw the global average temperature record broken three times in a span of four days. Alongside this year’s extreme heat, various parts of the globe saw the outbreak of increasingly devastating wildfires and flooding events. With COP28 coming on the heels of a string of calamitous weather incidents, those dire demonstrable consequences of a warming Earth further elevate the significance of a meeting that was already expected to address important topics with respect to the global climate agenda. The culmination of the global stocktake process that started after COP26 will spotlight the gap between climate change effects and climate mitigation efforts, which is already expected to be wider than it has been previously.

Please join the Middle East Institute’s Climate and Water Program for a virtual event discussing the critical issues that will come to a head at COP28 as world leaders come together in Dubai to address the current and projected consequences of a rapidly warming climate.

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