Record number of attendees line up to enter COP28

It's just a stone's throw away from the metro exit to the entrance of Expo City Dubai, where the COP28 United Nations climate change conference is being held.

It's a distance most people can easily cover in less than two minutes. But for participants to the annual UN gathering, it actually may take even the fleet-footed more than one hour to enter the venue.

Instead of walking straight to the compound, attendees were asked to make a big U-turn after getting off the train, walk away from the metro station for several hundred meters and then come back, only to find that you are just on the other side of the road under the station.