From Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall

Can you imagine a more hilariously ignoble end to the great push to green the global economy, than for the centrepiece of the green movement to transform into a giant oil and gas market?

Dubai’s climate shambles exposed: UAE energy tsar Sultan Al Jaber secretly used COP28 talks to push his own oil and gas projects, in latest shock revelations about warming meet

• The UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber used climate talks to bag oil and gas deals: report 
• He controversially heads both the UN’s climate meet and the UAE’s main oil firm 
• READ MORE:  British academic tortured in the UAE over false spying claims

By JAMES REINL, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 04:15 AEDT, 28 November 2023 | UPDATED: 04:15 AEDT, 28 November 2023

UAE officials have used the UN climate change talks they will host this week to push for lucrative new oil and gas deals, say the latest damaging leaks about the summit in Dubai.

Sultan Al Jaber, the Emirati president of the UN’s COP28 meeting, planned to raise commercial oil and gas interests with foreign officials ahead of talks in the UAE’s business hub, leaked internal reports show.

They are the latest claims to cast doubt on whether the talks will boost efforts to cut emissions of planet-heating gases — or are more akin to a public relations exercise for the Gulf petro-monarchy.

…Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12796143/Dubai-climate-shambles-UAE-energy-Sultan-Al-Jaber-secret-COP28-oil-gas.html

Maybe I should write to Sultan Al Jabber, suggest he pay WUWT a commission for advertising his COP28 oil industry bazaar?

Obviously it is unfair the UAE’s oil and gas industry is getting all the attention, so to maintain parity and fairness, I vote the next big green environmental COP conference be hosted by Saudi Arabia.