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Sometimes, the jokes just write themselves.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be hosting this year’s Conference of the Parties, or COP28, where it’s expected that there will be a lot of carbon-bashing going on throughout the climate conference that will run from November 30 to December 12.
Did no one tell the UN that the UAE is a very large producer of fossil fuels? If they did, organizers probably gave little thought to the splendid opportunity afforded the UAE to sell its oil and gas.
Documents unearthed by the Center for Climate Reporting show that the UAE is going to use the climate summit to fatten the bank account of the Emirates’ royal family by making advantageous deals with other countries who are pledging to cut their carbon emissions.
Say it ain’t so.
Many of the documents include points relating to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) and who the lobbyists are going to target in their pitches to buy UAE products. Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber is the president-designate of COP28 and just so happens to be ADNOC’s CEO. The thought that Sultan al-Jaber may have a teensy-tiny conflict of interest apparently never crossed the minds of UAE leadership, although some of the very committed green supporters are objecting to his appointment as president of the conference.
