Fossil fuel use is set to be a key topic at the UN climate conference in Dubai – but tension is brewing. It’s two months until the UN’s Climate Change summit kicks off in Dubai and the fight over fossil fuels is already heating up. As leaders, officials and negotiators from more than 200 nations...
UAE’s president-designate for UN COP28 offers full-throated defense of nation hosting climate talks. The Emirati president-designate for the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate conference offered a full-throated defense Saturday of his nation hosting the talks, dismissing those who “just go on the attack without knowing anything, without knowing who we are.” Climate activists roundly criticized Sultan...
Boycott COP28: ‘Holding a climate conference in Dubai is absurd and dangerous’. The venue of the 28th edition COP (Conference of the Parties), set to begin on November 30 in Dubai, is a disastrous choice for the fight against climate disruption. We call on public authorities, NGOs, organizations, scientists and business leaders not to support...
The UAE holds a major oil and gas conference just ahead of hosting UN COP28 climate talks in Dubai. The UAE holds a major oil and gas conference just ahead of hosting UN COP28 climate talks in Dubai. The Emirati president-designate of the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate talks called on oil and gas companies...
Acording to British academic Matthew Hedges, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has deepened its friendship with the Russian Federation since Russia invaded Ukraine. A fact that taken together with the UAE joining the BRICS alliance, may prove to be a major test of the strength of the West to maintain hegemony over the world order. Just in...
UAE hired a PR Company to “counteract negative press” before the COP28. A backlash occurred In July 2023, facing mounting criticism from climate and human rights activists, UAE, the host of this year’s climate change summit, hired a PR company, First International Resources, to “counteract” critics. The contract triggered a backlash and was “terminated before...
NEW YORK – As we move from UN Climate Week to COP28 in Dubai later this year, we must stop the “greenwishing” and “greenwashing” and start thinking about the instruments that will enable the private sector and private investors to channel more capital toward climate resilience and sustainable development. While the public sector has an...
Fossil fuel companies should not be included in the COP 28 climate summit if they continue to block climate action, the UN’s former climate chief told reporters on Thursday. “If they are going to be there only to be obstructors, and only to put spanners into the system, they should not be there,” said Christiana Figueres, who...
Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. In the wake of blazing heat, rising food insecurity and devastating floods, COP28 leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda for the conference, which will call for governments to...
The new documentary titled “Man on the Run” explores the massive 1MDB scandal, where billions vanished from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund. At the center was Malaysian businessman Jho Low, the fugitive accused of masterminding the historic fraud. But Low had help from the highest ranks of government and society. The film features interviews about Low’s...