Q&A: What is the ‘global stocktake’ and could it accelerate climate action?

As nations gather at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, top of the agenda will be the culmination of a process known as the “global stocktake”.By Aruna Chandrasekhar, Josh Gabbatiss, Carbon Brief This core component of the Paris Agreement involves an exhaustive appraisal of how far the world has come in tackling climate change and how far it still has to go. Over the past two years, governments, scientists and civil society groups have submitted thousands of documents into this process and spent hundreds of hours debating their contents.  The main technical conclusions emerging from the stocktake are not new. Nations are not cutting emissions fast enough, they