President Berset presents Switzerland's goals at UN Climate Change Conference COP28
Dubai, 1.12.2023 - On Friday, 1 December, President Alain Berset, represented Switzerland at the meeting of heads of state at the opening of the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A major discussion point at the conference is how to keep within reach the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. The focus of this year's COP is on the ‘global stocktake’, in which countries, for the first time, jointly take stock of the progress made under the Paris Agreement.