COP28: To eliminate fossil fuels and save the planet

LAST Thursday, November 30, over 160 world leaders opened in Dubai the 28th UN Climate Change Conference, or COP28. This is, perhaps, one of the most important of these annual events that bring the world together to avert a growing disaster, as ever-increasing temperatures are heating up the planet. This change in the climate is causing disasters in every part of the globe. No nation is exempt from this crisis; everybody is being impacted negatively.

Another disaster is how few people in the world know about it or its causes. Many ordinary people, 8.1 billion of them, know little about what is happening around them when disasters strike or why. They suffer the impact and feel helpless to stop it, as they are powerless.