Projects covering 10% of Zambia & Liberia’s land have been signed with a UAE-based company. Over the last year, the carbon offset industry has faced a barrage of investigations on instances of abuse and attracted disapproval from multiple quarters. The spotlight now is on the development of United Nations-based markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and new...
Another climate change COP has come and gone. As has become quite common by now, a complex set of intergovernmental negotiations are ultimately reduced to a fight over one particular issue. At the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, UAE (COP28), this issue was the phasing out of fossil fuels. The decision adopted in Dubai...
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...
Total attendance at climate change conference in Dubai is estimated at about 80,000. The UAE host of COP28 has given access to hundreds of bankers, consultants and lobbyists — and 20 housekeepers — at the event where oil and gas executives such as ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods will rub up against almost 200 government...
This year, world leaders gathering in the UAE to take stock of their climate commitments will for the first time engage in official programming focused on health. We, the signatories of this letter, support your leadership in bringing health front and center at COP28. As global health leaders, we are committed to achieving health and...
The choices and actions taken this decade will impact us all – and future generations to come. We know the solutions, and this includes dismantling the fossil fuel economy, properly governing the extraction of “transition minerals,” and preventing money flowing to businesses carrying out deforestation and other biodiversity-wrecking business activities. And we know some of...
The UN failed short of a US$10 billion target after the US and other wealthy nations failed to fulfil their climate finance pledges at a crucial climate financing conference held last week in Bonn, Germany. Last week’s Bonn conference on climate change witnessed a significant setback as the US and other rich countries failed to...
To keep pretending, year after year, decade after decade, that the U.N. process is working when everyone can see that it is failing, is its own kind of denial. Every year, the world’s governments gather at what the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, calls a Conference of the Parties, or COP,...
Al Gore vs. Oil-Rich Dubai, Host of COP28. Al Gore, former US Vice President, recently held a TED talk in anticipation of COP28. It is the upcoming Conference of the Parties, aka UNFCCC or 2023 United Nations Climate Conference, November 30th–December 12th, 2023, to be held at Expo City, Dubai. It increasingly looks like a...
COP28 Accommodation Dubai, a luxury concierge service, is offering elite attendees of the 2023 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP28, opportunities to book private jet charters to Dubai, where the conference will take place on November 30-December 12. The COP28, or Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention...