Mary Robinson hits out at Cop28 president as concerns raised over global stocktake

Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber is president of Cop28.

A global stocktake of emissions will show a projected increase of 9% by 2030 instead of the targeted reduction of up to 45% — a "huge, huge gap", according to former Irish president Mary Robinson.

Before her keynote speech at University College Cork's (UCC) sustainability forum, the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and chair of The Elders global public figure group strongly criticised the president of the upcoming UN climate change summit in Dubai this week.