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...
US president is balancing the demands of a Middle East war and a presidential campaign expected to heat up in January. US President Joe Biden will not attend a gathering of world leaders focused on climate change in Dubai this week, a US official said on Sunday. The announcement comes after the New York Times reported that Biden...
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...
Documents include estimates of national oil company’s commercial interests in the targeted countries. The world’s top climate summit has become embroiled in a hypocrisy scandal, days before the start of key talks. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) schemed to use its position as host country of the imminent COP28 United Nations climate talks to discuss...
Deal could be referred to Ofcom but some analysts say concerns about foreign influence may be overstated. Shortly after midday on Monday, an email arrived in the inbox of staff at the Daily Telegraph from their editor. “Over the weekend a number of you have asked me questions about the future ownership of the Telegraph,” Chris Evans...
The annual conference comes at a critical time for decisive international climate action. Record temperatures are being set regularly and the impacts of wildfires, floods and droughts are being felt across the globe. But here in Africa, most farmers don’t know how to deal with these adverse weather conditions and see Cop28 as just another...
As world leaders descend on Dubai for this year’s biggest climate conference COP28, the United Arab Emirates is pushing for a global commitment to triple renewable energy deployment by the end of the decade. It will also showcase its own investments in solar and wind power. But a closer look at the numbers shows the UAE’s...
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...
UK families are paying £605 more for their food than they did two years ago, with climate change being the main reason for the high prices, according to researchers. Rising costs due to extreme weather have kept food inflation high throughout 2022 and 2023 even as energy prices decreased. Recent flooding in the UK left...
Here’s why carbon capture is no easy solution to climate change. Carbon capture technology is central to the climate strategies of many world governments. It is also expensive, unproven at scale, and can be hard to sell to a nervous public. This currently makes the model of capturing carbon dioxide emissions from the air and storing them...