President Biden has decided to skip the summit, at least at its start. But Vice President Harris will travel there later this week, attending the climate talks on Friday and Saturday, the White House announced Wednesday.
More than 100 world leaders are scheduled to address the gathering Friday and Saturday. The speakers include French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Brazilian President President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, according to a list released by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The United Arab Emirates, battling low expectations ahead of the conference, plans to launch COP28 this week with what it hopes is a headline-grabbing agreement on one of the summit's thorniest issues - and it's a gambit that demonstrates that COP is increasingly about money.
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