His presence presented a symbolic split screen: Global climate talks in one frame, Putin’s oil negotiations in the other. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — While everyone else was trying to rescue the world from climate catastrophe, Vladimir Putin was negotiating Russia’s oil exports down the road. As the COP28 climate talks in Dubai reached their...
UN slams COP28 ‘posturing’ as negotiators spar over ending fossil fuels
Countries at the COP28 climate talks need to stop posturing, aim high and agree on a way to end the “fossil fuel era as we know it”, UN climate chief Simon Stiell said on Wednesday, as tension over the future of coal, oil and gas came to the fore. The UN climate chief was speaking as the two-week...
COP28: Dominica, Bahamas, Comoros sign MoUs with UAE-based carbon credit project developer
The Caribbean island of Dominica has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with UAE-based carbon credit project developer and buyer Blue Carbon at COP28 in Dubai, focusing on mitigation and carbon removal initiatives across several sectors, with the Bahamas and Comoros also inking agreements. Read more: carbon-pulse.com Photo: carbon-pulse.com
Kremlin says OPEC+ cuts will kick in later, confirms Putin to visit Gulf
Oil production cuts agreed by the OPEC+ group will take time to kick in, the Kremlin said on Tuesday as it confirmed that President Vladimir Putin would visit the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Putin will also host Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Moscow the following day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said....
COP28: Latin America splits on fossil fuels and farming
Opening days of UN climate summit see ambition and ambivalence, with differences among region’s leaders on tackling emissions and climate crisis. With nearly 100,000 attendees piling into a sprawling Dubai venue, the United Nations’ COP28 climate change summit has at times felt more like a World Cup or World Expo than the site of vital...
Dubai Connection: How to Launder Fifty Million Dollars
VIDEO INVESTIGATION For two years, Bertrand Monnet, a professor at Edhec and specialist in the economics of crime, filmed all the stages of the business model of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico for “Le Monde”. In this third episode, we go to Dubai with the “narco” and their financial advisors to learn how to launder...
Illusion in Progress – 2023 UN Climate Change Conference
Even the greatest magicians usually limit themselves to performing one illusion at a time. In a show starting on November 30th and running for two weeks, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will create a double illusion and have the entire world as its audience. In hosting the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) 28 of the...
Far more fossil fuel employees present at UN climate talks in Dubai than year before, report finds
The companies represented say they should be at the climate talks as they are responsible for the bulk of fossil fuel emissions At least 1,300 employees of organizations representing fossil fuel interests registered to attend this year’s United Nations climate talks in Dubai, more than three times the number found in an Associated Press analysis of...
Al Gore slams COP28 climate summit host UAE, says its emissions soared
Climate advocate and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Sunday slammed the UAE – host of the COP28 climate summit – saying its position as overseer of international negotiations on global warming this year was an abuse of public trust. The comments, made to Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the conference...
To greenwash or do the right thing? Corporate dilemmas at COP28
They call the giant climate business expo running outside the COP28 United Nations talks in Dubai the “green zone”. With the enormous former Expo 2020 site given over to green—and not so green—companies to trumpet their climate credentials, the private sector has never been embraced so warmly at a climate summit as it has been in the...









