The climate summit hosted by an oil executive
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🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week, COP28 starts in Dubai. The conference will be chaired by Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, who happens to be the head of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company. Leaked documents suggest al-Jaber might even be using the climate summit as an opportunity to strike bilateral deals on fossil fuels. So is this year’s COP a farce? Or, beneath the troubling headlines, are there actually signs of progress?
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| 0:58.0 | This Thursday, cop 28 begins, and it's already looking like it'll be an unusual. |
| 1:05.4 | This Thursday, cop 28 begins, and it's already looking like it'll be an unusual climate conference. Climate change campaigners have expressed outrage in the appointment of |
| 1:11.6 | the head of one of the world's biggest oil companies as president of this year's UN Climate Summit in the United Arab Emirates. |
| 1:19.0 | Sultan Ahmed Al-Jabair, who heads Abu Dhabi's national national oil company is the nation's climate envoy. |
| 1:26.9 | The COP conferences are the two weeks of the year when governments and the news focus on the climate catastrophe barreling towards us. |
| 1:37.2 | But serious questions are already being asked about the credibility of this year's host. |
| 1:43.0 | The BBC has learned that the United Arab Emirates is using its role, |
| 1:47.0 | or at least plans to use its role as the host of the latest round of UN Climate Talks, as an opportunity to strike oil deals. |
| 1:55.0 | We approached the UAE's cop 28 team to ask them about this. |
| 1:59.0 | They did not deny doing it. |
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