COP 28 kicks off this week, with thousands of diplomats set to convene over the state of our climate.

The annual summit is put on by the United Nations and comes as climate-related disasters have been steadily increasing and scientists have been sounding the alarm about the need for colossal, and coordinated, action.

For more on this, KCBS Radio's Holly Quan spoke with Rob Jackson, Earth Systems Science Professor at Stanford and Chair of the Global Carbon Project.