LONDON/TOKYO -- This year's United Nations climate conference (COP28), which opened Thursday in Dubai, brings together representatives from about 200 nations to assess the collective progress made -- or not made -- in combating climate change and avoiding a 1.5 degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures from preindustrial times.
The process, known as the Global Stocktake, happens every five years, and this is the first round. But a U.N. report published in September warned that the "world is not on track" and "much more [action] is needed now on all fronts."
