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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 3 - Caught on Camera

What is Cop28 and why does it matter?

UN climate summit begins in Dubai on 30 November and will readdress finance for loss and damage

The Guardian - UK

Deal to keep 1.5C hopes alive is within reach, says Cop28 president

Exclusive: Sultan Al Jaber says progress means ‘unprecedented outcome’ is possible

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on betting the planet: a big oil producer presiding over Cop28 is a risk

Editorial: The success of this week’s UN climate summit will depend on one man who must know that a favourable result would be bad news for the industry he represents

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Brilliant: a Cop28 to save the planet – staged by oil barons who imperil it

The UAE will have its moment of glory while the UK press worries more about petrostate money buying the Telegraph, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Cop28 host UAE planned to promote oil deals during climate talks

Leaked briefing documents for meetings with governments contained ‘asks’ from state oil firm

The Guardian - UK

UAE Sought To Use COP28 To Advance Oil Deals: Report

The United Arab Emirates planned to exploit meetings with foreign governments arranged due to its COP28 hosting role to strike fossil fuel deals, according to leaked documents obtained by the BBC. The leaked briefing notes, obtained by journalists at the Centre for Climate Reporting (CCR) working alongside the British broadcaster,…

International Business Times

COP28 President 'Cautiously Optimistic' On Success Of Key Climate Conference

The UAE's Sultan Al Jaber, the president of the forthcoming UN climate conference in Dubai, is "cautiously optimistic" that the pivotal talks will be successful, he told AFP in an interview on Saturday.

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Cop28 host UAE breaking its own ban on routine gas flaring, data shows

Exclusive: Fields run by climate summit host have burned gas near daily despite 20-year-old pledge, satellite monitoring reveals

The Guardian - UK

Capturing Cop28 chief’s oil firm emissions would take centuries – study

Analysis deems technology promoted by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber ‘dangerous red herring’

The Guardian - UK

Cop28 host UAE has world’s biggest climate-busting oil plans, data indicates

State oil company’s huge expansion plans make its CEO’s role as president of UN climate summit ‘ridiculous’, say researchers

The Guardian - UK

COP28 President-designate praises India for its energy transition vision

UAE and India share vision for energy transition to ensure low carbon development. COP28 to focus on ambitious and balanced outcomes. PM Modi’s leadership praised for delivering global agreement. COP28 to frame climate action as opportunity for growth.

The Hindu

Let fossil fuel profits fund crucial methane reduction

Letter: Unless this short-lived super climate pollutant is cut immediately, meeting the Paris agreement will be impossible, write Durwood Zaelke and Maxime Beaugrand

The Guardian - UK

‘I wasn’t the obvious choice’: meet the oil man tasked with saving the planet

When Cop28 starts next month, Sultan Al Jaber will be front and centre. He is the United Arab Emirates’ choice to head up the climate talks – and he also happens to be head of the national oil company. What’s the problem with that, he asks

The Guardian - UK

Exclude Fossil Fuel Firms From Cop28 if They Only Want to Obstruct, Says Ex-UN Chief

This story originally appeared in the Guardian and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

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UAE oil company executives working with Cop28 team, leak reveals

Exclusive: two PR professionals from national oil firm listed as providing ‘support’ to team running UN climate summit

The Times of India

'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 Guardian - UK

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

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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 Hindu

‘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 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

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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

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

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

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

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