Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber, the president-designate of COP28 in Dubai, has grand visions: „There is no other way to really address our climate challenge. We need to make transformational progress,“ he said during his first speech as the future head of the next climate conference. He said it was important to be honest; on the path of the Paris climate agreement, global emissions would have to fall by 43 percent by 2030 – „we are way off track.“ He wants to achieve progress on emissions reductions, adaptation, climate finance and loss and damage, Al-Jaber said last week at a meeting in Abu Dhabi.