un climate change conference - cop28
The host of the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference will be the UAE (United Arab Emirates). COP28 UAE will provide a milestone opportunity for the world to come together, course correct, and drive progress to keep 1.5C within reach - to meet the goals and ambitions of the Paris Agreement.
COP28 UAE will be a transformational moment for the world to unite around tangible climate action and deliver realistic solutions. Achieving this requires collaboration across civil society, governments, industries and sectors.
- Date: 30 November - 12 December 2023
- Location: Dubai, UAE
Circular cities: Housing for resilient urban communities
At this year's COP, we will once again gather climate circularity leaders at our event with Goals House titled "Circular cities: Housing for resilient urban communities".
The circular economy offers answers to the challenges of urbanization and housing in cities. Decarbonized and circular construction are twin imperatives to keep materials in use and stay within our planet's boundaries while helping build more resilient urban communities. At this event, we will discuss how we can solve the housing challenge of today whilst ensuring a greener and more inclusive world, and explore how, together, we can accelerate the pace of decarbonized and circular construction in cities around the world.
- Date: 1 December 2023 at 19:00 (UTC+04:00)
- Location: Concrete at Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
The world consumes 100 billion metric tons of materials each year. Only 9% gets recycled or reused in some way, the other 91 billion metric tons are left to fate in the natural environment. We need to use the opportunity that events like COP present us to talk about how we can accelerate the deployment of interventions we have at our disposal to create a systematic shift toward a circular economy.
