COP28 UAE: broadcast production for a global climate summit.

COP28, the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, ran at Expo City Dubai from 30 November to 13 December 2023. 97,000 in-person attendees. 198 countries watching remotely. Heads of state, climate scientists, global media, activists. Every session, every keynote, every bilateral briefing in front of an audience that did not tolerate production lapses.

CBA was engaged to deliver live broadcast production and streaming services across the conference campus. Multi-venue coverage, SRT contribution, global distribution, secure delegation feeds, multiple languages, 13 days continuous. No stoppage for weather, no pause for downtime, no "we will try again tomorrow."

Multi-venue capture. Independent camera crews and vision-mixed feeds at the plenary, the high-level negotiations, the side-events, and the media briefing rooms. Each venue had its own team; the MCR pulled it all together.

SRT-based contribution. Every venue fed the main control room over SRT with packet-loss recovery on lossy networks. Sub-second latency from venue to MCR so the director could cut between venues on the program feed.

Global distribution. Feeds distributed to UN delegations worldwide with secure access controls on sensitive sessions. Public broadcast to UN Web TV, partner broadcasters, and live stream to the UNFCCC YouTube channel simultaneously.

Multi-language. Six official UN languages supported across plenary sessions. Interpreter booths integrated into the broadcast pipeline. Viewers worldwide picked their language in-player.

Resilience. Redundant encoding on every venue. Dual-path uplink (fibre primary, bonded cellular secondary). UPS on every critical rack. No single point of failure reached production.

Across 13 consecutive days of continuous broadcast to 198 countries, CBA delivered the production without a single complete failure. Every session ran. Every speech went out. Every bilateral was captured and distributed to the relevant delegations. The COP28 team invited CBA back for subsequent engagements with UN bodies on the strength of that delivery.

The operational standard CBA set at COP28 became the internal benchmark for every subsequent global-scale broadcast. Web Summit Qatar, IRENA Assembly, Qatar Economic Forum, and the Esports World Cup all ran against the same "no-fail" posture that COP28 demanded.