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<header><h1>How Cipher is covering COP28, the climate change talks in Dubai</h1><a href="" rel="author"></a><span class="title"></span><time rel="pubdate" datetime="2023-11-30T00:00:00-05:00">Nov 30, 2023</time></header><p><span data-contrast="auto">Dubai, United Arab Emirates—Hello from the beginning of the 28th annual United Nations Conference of the Parties, known from here on out as COP28. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">I’m on the ground here until December 6, and Bill Spindle, our senior global correspondent, is here for the duration of the two-week conference. Are you here? Email us: </span><a href="mailto:amy@ciphernews.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-contrast="none">amy@ciphernews.com</span></a><span data-contrast="auto">, </span><a href="mailto:bill.spindle@ciphernews.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-contrast="none">bill.spindle@ciphernews.com</span></a><span data-contrast="auto"> and to reach the whole team: </span><a href="mailto:news@ciphernews.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-contrast="none">news@ciphernews.com</span></a><span data-contrast="auto">. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">Whether you’re here or not, you’re likely being inundated with an overflowing amount of information about the official negotiations and the myriad news events swirling around them.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">Our coverage will be succinct and purposeful in the following ways: </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><ul><li data-leveltext="-" data-font="Arial" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Arial","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">We’ll give you state of play coverage in our Wednesday newsletters on December 6 and 13, anchored by Bill.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li><li data-leveltext="-" data-font="Arial" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Arial","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">We’ll keep on top of the news throughout each day through our reader-favorite Top Reads & Hot Takes — our bite-sized news bursts that scroll on the lefthand side of our website homepage. Bookmark </span><a href="https://ciphernews.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-contrast="none">our website</span></a><span data-contrast="auto"> and our social media pages (find us on </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/cipherclimate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-contrast="none">LinkedIn</span></a><span data-contrast="auto"> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CipherClimate?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-contrast="none">X</span></a><span data-contrast="auto">) to see what we’re following and finding at COP28.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li><li data-leveltext="-" data-font="Arial" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Arial","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">We’ll look to break news wherever we can, and we’ll write additional stories if we have clear news to share.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li></ul><p><span data-contrast="auto">The central tenet of these climate talks is money — how to get more of it where it needs to go, especially to lower income countries so they can both adopt cleaner technologies and adapt to the impacts of a warming world already underway. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">The climate finance stakes are massive but complicated, which is why Cipher has been publishing a six-part explainer series on the efforts to close the energy investment gap between wealthy and poorer nations. Here are those links again so you can get caught up fast:</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><ul><li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="9" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><a href="https://ciphernews.com/articles/cop28s-big-challenge-is-closing-the-energy-investment-gap/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-contrast="none">COP28’s big challenge is closing the energy investment gap</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li></ul><p><span data-contrast="auto">Clean energy investment is ramping up fast, but most of it is still not reaching beyond the world’s richest countries.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><ul><li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="9" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><a href="https://ciphernews.com/articles/climate-cash-hopes-hang-on-development-bank-reforms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-contrast="none">Climate cash hopes hang on development bank reforms</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li></ul><p><span data-contrast="auto">Low- and middle-income countries will need an estimated $1.7 trillion a year in clean energy investments; last year, those countries received about a third of that amount. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><ul><li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="9" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><a href="https://ciphernews.com/articles/in-poorer-nations-coal-persists-despite-energy-transition-efforts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-contrast="none">In poorer nations, coal persists despite energy transition efforts</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li></ul><p><span data-contrast="auto">Wealthy countries pursuing financial partnerships to help wean lower income countries off coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels, are running into a host of hurdles despite their general popularity.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><ul><li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="9" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><a href="https://ciphernews.com/articles/carbon-markets-seek-a-reboot-in-the-face-of-existential-challenges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-contrast="none">Carbon markets seek a reboot in the face of existential challenges</span></a><span data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li></ul><p><span data-contrast="auto">The carbon offsets industry, facing a deluge of criticism, is attempting a major reboot. After years of intense activity by dozens of study groups and implementation committees, the carbon trading industry has launched fresh initiatives to raise the quality of offsets and codify what claims buyers can credibly make after purchasing them.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><ul><li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="9" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><a href="https://ciphernews.com/articles/how-to-understand-direct-government-aid-for-climate-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-contrast="none">How to understand direct government aid for climate change</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li></ul><p><span data-contrast="auto">Wealthier nations are (finally) able to say they are on track to fulfill their pledge to provide $100 billion in annual funding to help lower income nations address climate change, though most agree today it’s not nearly enough. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><ul><li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="9" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><a href="https://ciphernews.com/articles/betting-on-solar-solutions-where-there-is-no-grid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-contrast="none">Betting on solar solutions where there is no grid</span></a> <span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li></ul><p><span data-contrast="auto">Since big infrastructure projects (such as building new transmission lines) are costly and slow to take off in lower income countries, innovative off-grid setups are gaining traction in the climate financing world as a way of more quickly and efficiently solving an energy access problem affecting hundreds of millions of people.</span></p>
How Cipher is covering COP28, the climate change talks in Dubai
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November 30, 2023
Dubai, United Arab Emirates—Hello from the beginning of the 28th annual United Nations Conference of the Parties, known from here on out as COP28. I’m on the ground here until December 6, and Bill Spindle, our senior global correspondent, is here for the duration of the two-week conference. Are you here? Email us: amy@ciphernews.com, bill.spindle@ciphernews.com and to reach the whole team: news@ciphernews.com. Whether you’re here or not, you’re likely being inundated with an overflowing amount of information about the official negotiations and the myriad news events swirling around them. Our coverage will be succinct and purposeful in the following ways: We’ll give you state of play coverage in our Wednesday newsletters on December 6 and 13, anchored by Bill. We’ll keep on top of the news throughout each day through our reader-favorite Top Reads & Hot Takes — our bite-sized news bursts that scroll on the lefthand side of our website homepage. Bookmark our website and our social media pages (find us on LinkedIn and X) to see what we’re following and finding at COP28. We’ll look to break news wherever we can, and we’ll write additional stories if we have clear news to share. The central tenet of these climate talks is money — how to get more of it where it needs to go, especially to lower income countries so they can both adopt cleaner technologies and adapt to the impacts of a warming world already underway. The climate finance stakes are massive but complicated, which is why Cipher has been publishing a six-part explainer series on the efforts to close the energy investment gap between wealthy and poorer nations. Here are those links again so you can get caught up fast: COP28’s big challenge is closing the energy investment gap Clean energy investment is ramping up fast, but most of it is still not reaching beyond the world’s richest countries. Climate cash hopes hang on development bank reforms Low- and middle-income countries will need an estimated $1.7 trillion a year in clean energy investments; last year, those countries received about a third of that amount. In poorer nations, coal persists despite energy transition efforts Wealthy countries pursuing financial partnerships to help wean lower income countries off coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels, are running into a host of hurdles despite their general popularity. Carbon markets seek a reboot in the face of existential challenges The carbon offsets industry, facing a deluge of criticism, is attempting a major reboot. After years of intense activity by dozens of study groups and implementation committees, the carbon trading industry has launched fresh initiatives to raise the quality of offsets and codify what claims buyers can credibly make after purchasing them. How to understand direct government aid for climate change Wealthier nations are (finally) able to say they are on track to fulfill their pledge to provide $100 billion in annual funding to help lower income nations address climate change, though most agree today it’s not nearly enough. Betting on solar solutions where there is no grid Since big infrastructure projects (such as building new transmission lines) are costly and slow to take off in lower income countries, innovative off-grid setups are gaining traction in the climate financing world as a way of more quickly and efficiently solving an energy access problem affecting hundreds of millions of people.