An oil baron leading climate change talks sounds like a joke, doesn’t it? But at the UN COP28 summit in Dubai later this year, that’s exactly what is set to happen.
Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, boss of petro-giant the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, has been picked as president of the crucial climate conference.
Whatever the merits of Al Jaber as a diplomat, this is a confounding, scarcely believable decision that will confirm the worst fears of many activists: that the COP process – which is supposed to help drive down emissions and steer the planet away from catastrophic climate breakdown – has been compromised.
