The trust deficit facing COP28

As in previous meetings of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as the Conference of the Parties or COP, the upcoming gathering in Dubai is expected to be dominated by discussions around financing. At COP28 in Dubai, developing countries will press their developed counterparts to make good on long-standing pledges to finance climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Due to a cruel twist of fate, poorer countries, particularly in Africa, are bearing the brunt of the mounting climate change disaster, despite contributing the least over the decades to the factors that are causing the phenomenon.