COP28 Resource Page

COP28 Themes

This year's COP28 Presidency has called on governments and key climate stakeholders to take action in four areas:

• Finance
• Technology & Innovation
• Frontline Communities - focus on nature, people, lives, and livelihoods
• Inclusion

Infrastructure's role in addressing these four themes

The GI Hub at COP28

Infrastructure has a large role to play in addressing the climate crisis and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Infrastructure alone is responsible for more than 79% of global greenhouse gases and consumes 60% of the world's materials. Rethinking how we plan, develop, and finance infrastructure will ultimately determine how we fare in the climate transition.

Amelia Burnett, the GI Hub's Associate Director of InfraTech, will be on the ground to promote the role of infrastructure in the climate transition, and to highlight how our work in the areas of private sector capital mobilisation, infrastructure technology, and transition pathways can help to address this.

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Key discussion items at COP28

• The first Global Stocktake will take place at COP28 to assess progress on Paris Agreement goals and to further encourage countries to take ambitious climate actions that keep warming below 1.5 degrees.
• There will be a push for more ambitious commitment and action across all pillars of the Paris Agreement.
• Countries need to work together to define and set a framework for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA). This will help to measure and monitor adaptation efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change.
• There will also be a push to operationalise the loss and damage fund and funding arrangement. The G20 must affirm its commitment to achieve the operationalisation of the fund and financing arrangements.
• To halt heating at 1.5 degrees, emissions globally need to reach net zero by mid-century. Developed countries must aim to get there faster and assist developing countries in the process.