In an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Michael Mann, professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences, and colleagues from Clemson University, the University of California Los Angeles, and Columbia University investigate the effects of climate change on exacerbating compounding...
Vladimir Lisin has transferred his stakes in Russia’s biggest steelmaker and a rail freight operator to companies registered in Abu Dhabi, the latest example of a billionaire shifting assets to the oil-rich emirate. The businessman, who’s worth about $23 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, moved his stakes in Novolipetsk Steel PJSC and Freight One JSC from Cyprus...
The CDP’s Oil and Gas Benchmark report assessed 100 oil and gas companies on low-carbon transition and just transition indicators. Top oil and gas companies have made “almost no progress” in reaching the climate goals agreed as part of the 2015 Paris climate summit, environmental disclosure non-profit CDP said on Thursday. The CDP’s Oil and...
New film accuses club, which faces 115 Premier League charges, of using mystery man from UAE to cover money that was supposed to have come from a sponsor NEW Martyn Ziegler, Matt Lawton Thursday June 29 0023 8.00pm BST, The Times A mystery figure from the United Arab Emirates paid Manchester City £30 million, a...
In a recent address to global climate envoys, the Emirati President of Cop28 Sultan Al Jaber proclaimed that the United Arab Emirates had “embraced the energy transition.” The speech was the fore-runner to the start of a typically slick public relations campaign, with the UAE’s Minister of Climate Change Mariam Almheiri telling Reuters that the world is...
COP28 Accommodation Dubai, a luxury concierge service, is offering elite attendees of the 2023 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP28, opportunities to book private jet charters to Dubai, where the conference will take place on November 30-December 12. The COP28, or Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention...
Earlier this month, the UN announced it will require fossil fuel lobbyists to identify themselves as such when registering for the Cop28 climate summit. The move was applauded by campaigners and politicians alike, but it’s a shockingly small first step towards matching the boldness demanded by UN secretary general, António Guterres, when it comes to rooting out fossil fuel influence....
June 26 (Reuters) – Leaders of Russia and the United Arab Emirates held a phone call, the Kremlin and UAE’s state news agency said on Monday. According to the Kremlin, United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan was interested in hearing an assessment of the situation in Russia in connection with the Wagner...
If the Wagner Group’s mutiny has set off schadenfreude in Western capitals over the predicament of Russian President Vladimir Putin, it will spread unease through the palaces of the Middle East. The region’s rulers, reactionary autocrats almost to a man, tend to be nervous about uprisings of any kind — not least for fear they...