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'Boycotting COP28 only hurts Africa and the Global South'

Dubious about a colossal oil producer spearheading the next United Nations climate summit? Enter the United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s biggest oil producers, which now holds the reins of the upcoming COP28 conference to be held this December in Dubai. But while the UAE’s leadership at COP28 is…

The Times of India

COP28 host UAE has ‘insufficient’ climate plan to meet 1.5C goal

The United Arab Emirates’ efforts to cut emissions were labeled “insufficient,” even after the Middle East nation — the host of this year’s United Nations climate summit — announced fresh targets.

The Times of India

UN climate summit host UAE failed to report methane emissions to UN

Exclusive: State oil firm, whose chief will preside over Cop28, also accused of ‘incoherent’ reduction targets

The Guardian - UK

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Climate activists given green light to assemble ‘peacefully’ at COP28

The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it would allow environmental activists to "assemble peacefully" at this year's UN climate talks, despite a ban on unauthorised protests in the Gulf state.

Radio France Internationale

UAE promises to allow climate protests at COP28

Official permission is required for protests in the Gulf nation, which is hosting UN climate talks this year.

Al Jazeera

Leak reveals ‘touchy’ issues for UAE’s presidency of UN climate summit

Exclusive: Long list of ‘sensitive’ topics for petrostate include oil and gas production, emissions and Yemen war crimes

The Guardian - UK

‘G-20 nations should take leadership in climate action’

With only 124 days left for the COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, COP President-Designate Sultan Al Jaber on Friday urged G-20 nations to take a leadership role on climate action and said that their decisions would have an enormous influence on the outcomes for all countries

The Hindu

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MPs urge Sunak to attend Cop28 and stay true to net zero

All-party climate group says backing away from green policies would be catastrophic for the economy

The Guardian - UK

What is the UAE Cop28 plan of climate action?

Sultan Al Jaber has laid out his long-awaited strategy at a meeting in Brussels

The Guardian - UK

Phase down of fossil fuel inevitable and essential, says Cop28 president

Exclusive: Sultan Al Jaber calls on world to up its renewable energy capacity and says oil and gas companies must be involved

The Guardian - UK

We can’t defeat climate change by investing in a handful of countries. The world needs to come together at COP28–and fund a just energy transition

Investors are too focused on a handful of large economies, warn the UAE's climate envoy and the executive director of the IEA.

Fortune

So what if fossil fuel lobbyists have to declare themselves at Cop28? That won’t curb their power

Oil and gas companies don’t just have a seat at the Cop table: they are in charge of the table, says climate journalist Amy Westervelt

The Guardian - UK

Climate conferences have a huge trust deficit: how to make COP28 deliver

As countries prepare for COP28 summit scheduled for the end of the year in Dubai, the world has the opportunity to map a transition pathway that addresses over 14 years of unmet promises. This is particularly true when it comes to climate finance.

The Conversation

Responsibility and the complexities of climate leadership

Fossil fuel-dependent economies have a more difficult task defining their energy transition strategy and it is important to avoid division

The Hindu

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Radio France Internationale

UN climate talks in Bonn end in stalemate as poorer countries plead for action

Ten days of climate talks wrapped up in Bonn, Germany, on Thursday with negotiators unable to agree on key issues ahead of the Cop28 summit in December. Developing countries that are especially vulnerable to climate change say richer ones are failing to deliver the funding they need to weather the…

The Guardian - UK

Fossil fuel lobbyists will have to identify themselves when registering for Cop28

Campaigners have heralded the move as a victory for transparency, making polluting industries more accountable

The Guardian - UK

Greta Thunberg: not phasing out fossil fuels is ‘death sentence’ for world’s poor

Climate activist says only ‘rapid and equitable’ phaseout will keep temperatures within 1.5C limit

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Hoping for an effective COP28? Bonn chance!

Bonn climate meeting planning for Dubai COP in December starts with clashing agendas, including EU and US politicians saying having an oil company chief executive as president of the negotiations would “severely jeopardise" them

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The Guardian - UK

Army of fake social media accounts defend UAE presidency of climate summit

Sultan Al Jaber – Cop28 president and CEO of state oil firm – is ‘ally the climate movement needs’, posts say

The Guardian - UK

Global greenhouse gas emissions at all-time high, study finds

Scientists say world is burning through ‘carbon budget’ that can be emitted while staying below 1.5C

The Guardian - UK

Countries have not yet agreed to put fossil fuel phase-out on Cop28 agenda

Director-general of climate talks, Majid Al Suwaidi, says governments have not reached agreement to discuss key issue

The Guardian - UK

‘Absolute scandal’: UAE state oil firm able to read Cop28 climate summit emails

Exclusive: UN conference president Sultan Al Jaber is also head of oil firm, which was consulted on how to respond to a media inquiry

Reuters

COP28 Director-General dismisses criticism of his boss, says summit needs new mindset

There's no conflict of interest between leading the United Nation's next climate change summit in Dubai in December and heading the United Arab Emirates' state oil giant at the same time, COP28 Director General said on Tuesday.

Al Jazeera

Will fossil fuel phase-out make it onto the UN’s climate agenda?

UN climate chief says while the rapid end of hydrocarbon use is required, the idea may not be discussed at COP28 talks.

Reuters

UN climate talks in Germany kick off with no final agenda

United Nations climate talks in Germany kicked off on Monday without an agreed final agenda for technical discussions, a senior negotiator said, clouding optimism that the 10-day meeting would result in a clear programme for the COP28 conference in Dubai.

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