Credit: <\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\nThe two-week talks in the UAE fall at the end of what has been the Earth\u2019s hottest year on record, and will mark the first global stock-take of commitments first made by nations under the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees, while aiming for a cap of 1.5C.<\/p>\n
Addressing world leaders at the conference on Friday, King Charles on Friday urged nations not to pass up an \u201cunmissable opportunity\u201d to change course.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are taking the natural world outside balanced norms and limits and into dangerous, uncharted territory,\u201d he told the opening ceremony of the World Climate Action Summit at COP.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are carrying out a vast, frightening experiment of changing every ecological condition, all at once, at a pace that far outstrips Nature\u2019s ability to cope…how dangerous are we actually prepared to make our world?\u201d<\/p>\n
While the futuristic petro-state is anxious to promote its credentials transitioning away from fossil fuels \u2013 oil exports account for less than 30 per cent of GDP \u2013 its hosting of the climate summit has attracted criticism. In particular, the appointment of the country\u2019s state-owned oil company chief executive Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber as conference president has stoked fears industry will have an outsize role at the talks.<\/p>\n
Nadeem is just one of 100 youth delegates chosen to represent developing nations and indigenous groups at the conference, where she hopes to give voice to some of the most vulnerable people as a representative of Pakistan.<\/p>\n
The third-year university student gripes at critics of a major oil-producing nation hosting a climate summit, insisting \u201cno country is exonerated of blame\u201d when it comes to the climate emergency.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor us to criticise a particular country for hosting COP is to then imply that there are certain countries that occupy a perfectly blemish-free position,\u201d Nadeem said, adding that she saw value in oil having a seat at the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it\u2019s just people getting together, and acting as sounding boards for each other, that\u2019s not a climate negotiation. That\u2019s an echo chamber.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the run-up to COP28 youth delegates gathered for their own Conference of Youth, or COY18, in Dubai on Sunday. More than 1000 young people gathered for the three-day conference which combined advocacy with policy development training led by Harvard and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to prepare young people to participate in the upcoming negotiations.<\/p>\n
Australia does not have an official national youth delegate for COP28. However, more than 80 youth representatives will travel to Dubai, including nine backed by the federal government and the Australian Youth for International Climate Engagement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a responsibility to take ownership of our own histories… and not just turn to certain countries to lead us in this conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among them is 22-year-old Kupakwashe Matangira from NSW\u2019s Hunter Valley, who will advocate for countries like Australia to do more to financially assist countries feeling the worst impacts of climate change, particularly in the Pacific.<\/p>\n
Matangira, who has worked with rural communities across NSW following fires, floods and drought, said young people needed to be taken seriously at COP28.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hate the thought of youth delegates being used as a tick box for saying \u2018we have the youth voice\u2019, I want youth opinions to be more than a token,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
In Samoa, 27-year-old Nicollo Meono-Alaiasa counts his community as one of the most vulnerable, where many primary school-age students have experienced three or four cyclones before the age of 10.<\/p>\n
The engineer, who is currently completing his PhD on renewable energy systems for small islands, said, if nothing else, COP28 needed to reach consensus on the long-awaited loss and damage fund \u2013 a financial scheme for wealthier nations to buttress developing countries against the impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrently decisions are made for us, without us. We are calling for fair, equitable and effective solutions that can build resilience,\u201d Meono-Alaiasa said.<\/p>\n
Delegates representing global youth at the talks will be led by UAE minister Shamma Al Mazrui, who was this year appointed the UAE\u2019s Youth Climate Champion. Mazrui, who became one of the world\u2019s youngest ministers at 22 in 2016, has led young people in negotiation training and simulations for COP28.<\/p>\n
She said her mission was to open the climate process for young people to represent the 4.3 billion people across the world below the age of 35, with a focus on equipping youth from the developing world with the skills to engage in negotiations.<\/p>\n
\u201cSmall island developing states, least-developing countries and climate vulnerable communities are severely under-represented. Over 70 per cent of the organisations that come [to COP] are from the USA and Europe,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Mohamed Al Taher, a 23-year-old UAE youth delegate, said the consequences of decisions made at the conference would fall to younger generations, \u201cwhich makes us a key stakeholder in the conversation\u201d.<\/p>\n
Among her peers, Nadeem said there was consensus that young people were \u201cinheriting a broken planet,\u201d but that many retained hope in the power of their collective voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re a young person there is a liberty to confront power structures. You\u2019re not bound to the same courtesies that a policymaker is bound to … where they say everything and say nothing at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n
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