By Kelly Alvarez Doran featured in The Architect’s Newspaper

It’s a lengthy journey from Dubai’s original city center to the Expo City Dubai grounds, which hosted the UN Climate Change Conference known as COP28. One can either hire a car and fight Dubai traffic for 40 minutes, or take the elevated train for an hour and half. I chose the latter, becoming a daily passenger of this train traveling back and forth across the expanse of the city as a part of the Architecture 2030 delegation.

Like many, I arrived rather cynical about this iteration of COP. Given the choice of location and as well as the leadership, it all seemed rather paradoxical and problematic on the surface…

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