Should delegates boycott the event? Today marks the beginning of COP28. But whilst conference-goers debate the best ways to stamp out fossil fuels, the meetings’s host wants more oil, not less.
COP28 host planned to use event for oil deals
High stakes: Sultan Al Jaber is the head of UAE state energy giant ADNOC. Glossary
United Arab Emirates - A country in the Middle East, and the location of Dubai.
Climate change - Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human action is a major cause of climate change.
Fossil fuel - Fossil fuels, including coal, crude oil and natural gas, are made from decomposing plants and other organisms. The non-renewable fuels are burned for energy, emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Greenhouse gases - Greenhouse gases, which increase the atmosphere's capacity to hold heat, are vital to life on Earth: without them the planet would be freezing. But human activity is disturbing the delicate balance that created the conditions for life as we know it. Carbon dioxide is responsible for 60% of the manmade greenhouse effect, but we also produce smaller quantities of methane, ozone and nitrous oxide, which are even more damaging.
Global warming - The Earth is getting hotter due to climate change.
Leaked - Shown to people without permission.
Delegates - People who represent groups or countries at conferences.
Protest - Around 500,000 people attended the Women's March on Washington on January 21st. Similar marches took place in cities around the world; it is thought that around 5m people took part.