COP28: UN-Climate Conference in Dubai 2023

The 28th World Climate Conference took place in Dubai from 30 November to 12 December 2023, presided over by the United Arab Emirates. Germanwatch was on site, providing coverage through blog posts and press releases, based on expertise and valuable background information.

Focus pages of the UN climate conferences

2026: COP31 in Antalya/Turkey

2025: COP30 in Belém/Brazil

2024: COP29 in Baku/Azerbaijan

2023: COP28 in Dubai

2022: COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh

2021: COP26 in Glasgow/UK

2019: COP25 in Madrid/Spain

2018: COP24 in Katowice/Poland

2017: COP23 in Bonn/Germany

2016: COP22 in Marrakech/Marokko

2015: COP21 in Paris/France

2014: COP20 in Lima/Peru

Archive: Background papers from past UN climate conferences

Germanwatch has accompanied all UN climate conferences for many decades with information-rich background papers.
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News and Publications on COP29

Eine Hütte bei Nacht, die mit Strom beleuchtet wird

Sustainable Finance 12. November 2025

Multilateral Development Banks’ Contribution to the COP28 Energy Consensus

The global energy transition is at a critical juncture. Despite historic commitments at COP28, investment remains dangerously uneven and insufficient. Our paper explores the role MDBs can play in delivering the COP28 energy consensus.

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Climate finance Working Paper 31. October 2024

New Climate Finance Goal meets International Financial Architecture Reform

Developing countries face an increase in financial needs to continue progressing on the SDGs, including on climate. The reform of the international financial architecture (IFA) has gained momentum over the past years in response to these growing needs as well as a shift towards an increasingly multipolar world. The surge in momentum has coincided with the negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG). In two policy briefs, we analyse how the IFA reform agenda and the NCQG are interlinked in their objectives and goals.

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UN climate conferences Briefing Paper 27. March 2024

COP28 Debrief

At the 28th climate negotiations in Dubai, the global community heralded the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. In the long term, all signatory states want to phase out coal, oil, and gas. What else was decided? What were the breakthroughs? And which decisions are rather disappointing? The Germanwatch debrief reviews the conference.

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UN climate conferences International climate co-operation Indices 8. December 2023

The Climate Change Performance Index 2024: Results

Published annually since 2005, the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) is an independent monitoring tool for tracking the climate protection performance of 63 countries and the EU. It aims to enhance transparency in international climate politics and enables comparison of climate protection efforts and progress made by individual countries.

News Report 04.12.2023

Empathy, human rights and international law – united for the future

Germanwatch is an association that supports the implementation of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and related global goals on the basis of democracy and human rights. As such, it does not wish to remain silent on the terror and war taking place in the Middle East, which is, after all, not so far away from where the UN’s climate summit is taking place.

Climat policy in a globalised world

International climate co-operation Background Paper 29.11.2023

Climate policy in a polarised world

We take a look at the geopolitical situation providing the frame for the UN climate talks COP28 in Dubai and identify the most important topics for the negotiations. We also outline what we expect COP28 to deliver, in terms of decisions that mitigate climate change, build resilience and provide finance for the people who need it.

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