It's the Brian Lara Show on WNC.

Good morning everyone.

It's the Brian Lara Show on WNC. Good morning everyone.

We begin today with our climate story of the week, which we've been doing every Tuesday on the show all this year.

Today it's our lead as it's the final day of the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai, which some of you

were just hearing about on the BBC, which has been embroiled since our coverage of it

last Tuesday in a debate among the nation's delegates whether to include

a total phase-out of fossil fuels in the language of its closing statement.

Hopefully we'll find out from our guests live from Dubai in a minute how it's turning out.

But to remind you of the essential conflict that's been dominating headlines from COP28,

former Vice President Al Gore, who's made climate his central focus since leaving office in 2001,

was on CNN State of the Union on Sunday,

astonished at the conflict of interest he sees that was baked into this conference by having

Sothan Ahmed Al-Jaber from the United Arab-Emeritz government and who runs their big oil company

as the conference president.

It's the appointment of the CEO of one of the biggest and least responsible oil

companies on the planet to be the head of the conference.

And here's the reason that's a direct conflict of interest, Jake.

He's charged by the UN with the responsibility of guiding the world toward a sharp phase down of these greenhouse gas emissions which

mainly come from burning fossil fuels but he's charged to by his sovereign and

the company that he heads with a massive expansion of fossil fuels.

They've got a plan to expand production of both oil and gas by an enormous amount starting the minute the gavel bangs to end this

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