United Arab Emirates Faces Backlash After Appointing Abu Dhabi Oil Chief as President of COP28

The United Arab Emirates is facing major backlash after announcing the Abu Dhabi oil chief as president of the COP28 climate summit.

Source: BBC News/Youtube

The head of the state oil giant Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) will now lead the COP28 climate talks in Dubai later this year. ADNOC is one of the largest oil companies in the world.

Environmentalists and climate activists were furious about the decision to appoint Sultan al-Jaber as COP28 president-designate. Groups are calling on al-Jaber to step down from his role as ADNOC CEO since it is a clear conflict of interest with his COP28 position.

“The UN Climate Summit is supposed to be a space where the world holds polluters to account, but increasingly [it’s] being hijacked by those with opposing interests. Like last year’s summit, we’re increasingly seeing fossil fuel interests taking control of the process and shaping it to meet their own needs,” Teresa Anderson, global lead on climate justice at ActionAid, said.

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