The US Treasury and State Departments sanctioned more than 250 companies and individuals in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, alleging that their continuing support for Russia has been crucial to sustaining its invasion of Ukraine. The measures take aim at what the US agencies calls Russia’s procurement network, a loose coalition of companies...
Sudan has declared 15 staff from the United Arab Emirates embassy persona non grata, ordering them to leave the country within 48 hours, the Sudanese state news agency said on Sunday. The news agency said Sudan’s foreign ministry summoned the acting UAE Chargé d’affaires and informed her of the decision. No further details were given....
Shills for Chevron, Exxon, Shell, and Total among those at UN climate talks DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Fossil fuel corporations aren’t the only ones flooding climate talks. As analysis by Corporate Accountability finds, some of the fossil fuel industry’s most vocal surrogates for climate denial and propaganda are well-represented. What’s more, these climate obstructors have...
A draft agreement from the UN’s COP28 climate summit has dropped references to the phaseout of fossil fuels, triggering a backlash from countries that accuse Saudi Arabia and other petrostates of thwarting efforts to tackle global warming.The document, which will have to be agreed on by almost 200 countries at the summit in Dubai, sets...
COP28 pledges so far not enough to limit warming to 1.5C -IEA. A raft of new pledges announced at the COP28 climate summit – from tripling renewables to reining in methane emissions – won’t be enough on their own to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Sunday....
‘Small minority’ of nations blocking progress on fossil fuels at COP28, says at-risk Vanuatu. A small minority of countries at UN climate talks are blocking a growing consensus to phase out fossil fuels, at-risk Vanuatu’s climate change minister told AFP on Sunday. The COP28 meeting in Dubai is at a “critical stage”, said Ralph Regenvanu, whose low-lying Pacific nation...
At least 475 carbon-capture lobbyists attending Cop28. Cop28 organisers granted attendance to at least 475 lobbyists working on carbon capture and storage (CCS), unproven technologies that climate scientists say will not curtail global heating, the Guardian can reveal. The figure was calculated by the Centre for Environmental Law (Ciel) and shared exclusively with the Guardian, and...
From Reuters to The New York Times, Big Oil pays ‘most trusted media brands’ to push greenwashing. A new report highlights the role of the media in climate delay, a practice that promotes ineffective solutions to the climate crisis and distracts from genuinely useful measures. Produced by two climate investigative outlets, Drilled and DeSmog, it analyses seven “most trusted”...
Cop28: highlights and lowlights so far. An update on the first half of the UN climate conference in Dubai, including shock over the host president’s comments. A summary of some of the news from the first half of the Cop28 UN climate conference in Dubai, including a spectacular row about the host president’s remarks on the science...
Money offered so far falls far short of estimated $400bn in losses developing countries face each year. Wealthy countries most responsible for the climate emergency have so far pledged a combined total of just over $700m (£556m) to the loss and damage fund – the equivalent of less than 0.2% of the irreversible economic and...