Climate Negotiation Crisis: Will COP28 be a giant mess?

It's no secret that COP climate negotiations often disappoint. But the COP28 talks in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are off to a bad start... before they've even started. From fears about the location, to frustration of the appointment of oil man Sultan al Jaber as president, COP28 is off to a bad start before it's even started. This is ClimateAdam's COP28 explained!

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==MORE INFO==

COP 28 Summaries
Reaction to appointment
Twitter bots
Wikipedia greenwashing
But his emails!
Phase down
Tripling renewables
Updating pledges
Loss & Damage
$100 billion
Phasing down
==CREDITS==

Sultan Al Jaber photo by Arctic Circle
Power plant demolition by Port of San Diego
Youth Strike 4 Climate: London by ReelNews
Climate Change Conference : #COP-25 LIVE by ASMP Worldwide
COP photo from Presidencia de la República Mexicana

[ThaKKatt]

I'm in an energy and environmental policy grad program and they asked us if we wanted to go to COP28 and we were all nahhhh I'd rather do something useful

[Philoxime]

One thing is clear, we should phase up such excellent informative videos! Thanks Adam ;)

[wielebna]

Gosh, I worked on an architectural project in Abu Dhabi and I never met more hypocrytical people than the clients from Abu Dhabi- they didn't give a damn F about the sustainability of the project but yet they tried to promote it as the most sustainable thing ever. So happy that the project died before it really started.

[dereknewbury]

Admire your optimism but, with respect, I am not convinced that you are at all hopeful. Our UK Prime Minister recently announced funding for further fossil fuel exploration and nowhere does one sense any real investment in this issue within any leading economy. I just feel so sad and angry for my grandchildren

[stefanhauser]

What is a cop? A cop puts you in a cell. Cells are the basic building blocks of all living things.

[simonhorlick]

Can we talk about how cryosphere researchers are insisting that 2C must be taken off the table? At around 1.7C we would be expecting full loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic. If we keep temperatures to 1.5C we will still lose about 40% of permafrost. Every tenth of a degree above that we keep losing more and more permafrost. There’s about 1.5 trillion tons of carbon locked up in permafrost and it really needs to stay that way.

[rustybarrel]

“Nothing happens” because their real objective is to use your fear to make themselves richer at your expense.

[TheJev]

COP1: 360 ppm CO2, COP28: 420 ppm CO2. Nuff said.

[dylanhamilton]

I'll be going to COP28 (oof), and you've explained it really well! They're such hopeless environments but we can't afford to abandon them completely - we have to snag whatever we can get:/

[martiansoon]

Paris agreement and IPCC: 1, 5C is achievable...

Reality: 1, 54C this year (10 months so far)...

[louiseradtke]

Hi Adam! Awesome content, as always. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, experiences and views, I very much appreciate it! ❤
Also, I would love to know climate scientists' impressions - and most of all, see some good ol' data - about the role played by war industry on the climate crisis. Talking to a friend the other day, we came to discuss this but I felt a lack of bigger picture data on the impacts of war weaponry on climate in terms of emissions, given we have at least 2 big wars going on right now with concerns about nuclear bombs and biological warfare. I would love to hear something from you on this topic! Thanks again for the awesome work you do. Cheers from Brazil ❤

[paulkennedy]

"The public and the press are holding the politicians to account", 10:45 in. Really? Perhaps in the EU; perhaps in some parts of the global south; in the US, UK, and Canada? No, certainly not.
Adam, I adore your channel, just discovered it a few weeks ago. I plan to sponsor you on Patreon. You have educated and entertained me. But once in a while, you say the wildest things, haha!
As for COP28, I have the lowest expectations. Greta, on the other hand, will continue to inspire her generation, along with many other dedicated young activists from around the world. I joined XR because of her words and her actions.

[moneysins]

US Congress: “you want $100 billion? Pshhh that’s nothing, what for?”

Poor countries: “to compensate for your damage to the environment.”

Congress: “Oh no I meant what do we get out of it? Political sway? Military base? New market access?”

Poor countries: “it’s to pay for your own mistakes…”

Congress: “Oh boy you don’t get how this works do you… why don’t you come back to us when you have something to offer.”

[CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

There hasn't been a moment of my life where I've been this dejected. I've been pushing a message of hope for 20 years now, since I got out of school and saw where society was heading. Since then, things have only became worse, and now there's even an entire misinformation movement trying to undermine our response to some of the largest challenges our species has ever faced. And time has run out. I say this on my channel all the time, but we may be the most important generations of humans to ever exist.

What we do, how we respond, will literally determine if there is human civilization in the future. We've had many civilization collapses in our past (tens of thousands of them) but never before have they been on a global level. And never before have we been faced with not just a single existential threat (usually drought), but multiple, all at the same time, many exacerbating other ones, and often the solutions to each one being mutually exclusive with the solutions to others. For example, decarbonizing to save climate change create increased energy and resource demands, which exacerbates resource shortages, which impacts food production and global transport, which impacts global equity, which impacts climate refugees, which impacts economic crises, which impacts financial policy, which impacts energy investment, etc.

Having this COP be completely hijacked by big oil, has me even more dejected than Glasgow, which itself had more oil and gas lobbyists than any other category in attendance. I was skeptical about UAE hosting, but after seeing the president of COP28 making backroom oil deals... the entire system is absolutely broken, and it's being laid out for all to see. Combine that with Biden going "nah, got other things to do" and not attending, I'm just so incredibly out of words dejected.

At least there's 1 silver lining to all this.... we can now all clearly see that NOTHING is going to change outside of massive societal revolt. No leader, no government, no international panel is going to reverse this.

Did you want a global strike? Because this is how you get a global strike.

[johncatto]

All these ridiculous cop summits must have created 28 yrs. worth of global warming all on their own, and achieved nothing.

[russmarkham]

Funny how in a few decades the summer of 2023 will be looked back on as a beautiful, cool, enjoyable time. "Those were the days".

[jedics]

It will be a "Cop out 28" like all the rest...A distraction, something bright and shiny to give the people something to focus their attention on while they carry on business as usual.

[kaputfretudy]

Brilliant analogy of the friend with a terrible partner! We need a total revision of COPs, to insulate decision making from corporate interests.

[Hyo]

I love how even taken out of context, what is said here about cops still stands true.

[AwesomeCrackDealer]

I don't know, Adam. I am helping prepare the Brazilian presentation on our renewable diesel project and I can guarantee you that we are pretty serious about climate change