Documents show industry intends to go ‘full force’ in arguing meat is beneficial to the environment at climate summit. Big meat companies and lobby groups are planning a large presence at the Cop28 climate conference, equipped with a communications plan to get a pro-meat message heard by policymakers throughout the summit. Documents seen by the Guardian and...
Rishi Sunak might fear upsetting Arab friends, but these are great British institutions whose future is now in doubt. I joined this newspaper in 1979 and have subsequently edited all the three titles in its stable – The Spectator, The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph. I remain on the staD. I have therefore reached...
American spy agencies have warned about the Emirati firm G42 and its work with large Chinese companies that U.S. officials consider security threats. By Mark Mazzetti and Edward Wong Mark Mazzetti, an investigative reporter focusing on global intelligence, and Edward Wong, a diplomatic correspondent and former Beijing bureau chief, have reported together on Middle East...
The United Arab Emirates planned to use its role as the host of UN climate talks as an opportunity to strike oil and gas deals, the BBC has learned. Leaked briefing documents reveal plans to discuss fossil fuel deals with 15 nations. The UN body responsible for the COP28 summit told the BBC hosts were...
Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber is not named on the website of the Abu Dhabi fund bidding for the Telegraph titles and his Wikipedia page contains no reference to his role in shaping the country’s censorship regime. Al-Jaber is, however, poised to become a prominent figure in UK media as chairman of International Media Investors (IMI) and...
An Eritrean trafficker promised to help Africans desperate to reach Europe—then brutalized them inside a Libyan compound while extorting their families back home. With his fortune, he partied in Dubai. Daniel Yalke was twenty when he left Ethiopia and set off for Europe. One of six siblings from a poor family in Cherkos, a tough...
Since the mid-1980s, the 25 largest oil and gas companies around the world have fought climate policies tooth and nail, making US$30 trillion in the process, according to a study published Thursday. The analysis from German-headquartered Climate Analytics also calculated the climate-related damages from the emissions of the oil and gas companies and found those...
With just weeks to go until the COP28 climate summit, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, who’s both the COP President and boss of UAE oil giant ADNOC, has been promoting carbon capture as a climate solution. “If we are serious about curbing industrial emissions,” Al Jaber said in May, “we need to get serious about carbon capture technologies.”...
Canada is among a group of top fossil fuel-producing countries on pace to extract more oil and gas than would be consistent with agreed-upon international targets designed to limit global warming, according to a new analysis. The report, released on Wednesday by the United Nations in collaboration with a team of international scientists, found that countries still plan to...
The United Arab Emirates quietly established sweeping restrictions on the hundreds of journalists expected to visit the country for international climate talks later this month. Now, the UAE says it was a mistake. The strict rules against publishing news that could antagonize the rulers of the seven monarchies that make up the country were removed...