Abu Dhabi National Oil Company CEO Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber will lead this year's COP28 climate summit, raising concerns big industry is hijacking the global response to environmental challenges.
abc.net.au/news/climate-summit-cop28-lead-by-head-of-oil-giant-from-uae/101853492The United Arab Emirates says the head of state oil giant Abu Dhabi National Oil Company will lead this year's COP28 climate summit, fuelling activists' worries that big industry is hijacking the global response to environmental challenges.
International NGO Global Witness called the appointment a "harsh blow" to weaning the world off fossil fuelsSultan Ahmed al-Jaber, who is also the UAE's minister of industry and technology and its climate envoy, will help shape the conference's agenda and intergovernmental negotiations to build consensus, his office said in a statement.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric noted that the COP president was chosen by the host country with no involvement of UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres or the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.losing the battle to prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis"The secretary-general reaffirms that there is no way to avoid such a climate catastrophe without ending our addiction to fossil fuels.
The UAE, a major OPEC oil exporter, will be the second Arab state to host the climate conference, after Egypt in 2022., saying fossil-fuel producers had watered down emission reduction ambitions and benefited from sympathetic treatment from Egypt, a natural gas exporter and frequent recipient of Gulf funds.Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
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