[11]The COP28 agendaThe destructive force of climate change has never been more widely evident around the world. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 to provide scientific, up-to-date assessments of climate change; nearly all nations have joined the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with the goal of averting “dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” See History of the IPCC (www.ipcc.ch/about/history). See also “What is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change?”, in United Nations Climate Change (unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/what-is-the-united-nations-framework-convention-on-climate-change). He co-authored the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, which appeared in 2018, the 2019 Special Report on Climate Change and Land, and Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (www.ipcc.ch/people/jim-skea). J. Rowlatt, “UAE planned to use COP28 climate talks to make oil deals”, in BBC News, November 27, 2023.
