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Monash University. Additionally, climate-fuelled disasters have displaced large numbers of people, damaged homes and infrastructure, destroyed thousands of acres of farmland, and cost trillions of dollars in economic losses. Climate change impact is also worsening global economic inequality, hurting the poorest regions the hardest. For instance, in developing countries, climate-linked disasters over the past half-century caused economic losses of up to 30 per cent of gross domestic product [GDP]. Whereas in Small Island Developing States, some disasters wiped out countries’ entire GDP, such as tropical storm Erika, which hit Dominica in 2015 and wiped out 90 per cent of the Caribbean- island nation’s GDP, according to a government-led damage impact assessment. Indeed, climate change has the potential to reverse years of sustainable development gains, fuelling violent conflicts and aggravating intergenerational poverty. Biodiversity is also at risk. Already, changing weather patterns have altered marine, terrestrial, and freshwater ecosystems around the world, driving mass mortality of plants and animals and resulting in the first climate-driven extinctions. Amid the climate crisis gloom, the Conference of the Parties [COP] offers a spark of hope. Convened under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC], a multilateral treaty adopted in 1992, the annual summit brings together governments to negotiate the best ways to address climate change, while taking each other’s circumstances into account.

President William Ruto of Kenya with HE Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President-Designate. © WAM

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I t is no longer possible to turn a blind eye to climate change. Across the world, changing weather patterns are leading to more extreme heatwaves, prolonged droughts, and devastating flood events that directly threaten communities and ecosystems. As we approach 2030 and the critical 1.5°C threshold, the urgency to act on climate change is greater than it has ever been. Just recently, the World Meteorological Organisation predicted that there was a 66 per cent chance of global temperatures exceeding 1.5°C above preindustrial levels by 2027. For climate scientists, these weather catastrophes are not surprising. After all, the average global temperature has increased by at least 1.1°C since 1880. The abnormal temperatures caused more than five million extra deaths every year from 2000 to 2019, according to a study by Australia’s

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