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ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL COMPANY

Dismantle green colonialism and stop the greed of corporates and Northern governments

The fight for climate justice must include the people who are most affected, including those in the Arab region

  • Hamza Hamouchene
8 min read
Freedom: A woman holds a placard that reads ‘Journalism is a crime in Azerbaijan’ on International Women’s Day. Journalists Sevinj Vagifgizi, Nargiz Absalamova and Elnara Gasimova were arrested in the Abzas Media case that investigated state corruption. Photo: Aziz Karimov/Getty Images
COP29

Déjà vu for the next UN climate change conference

An oilman and a fossil fuel nation as the host, plus a regressive organising team. Sound familiar?

  • Ozayr Patel
4 min read
South Africa, the world’s seventh-largest coal producer, faces a climate challenge that has largely flown under the radar: methane emissions from coal mines. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ROLAND NGAM

The future still fuelled by oil, coal despite feted COP28 deal

Despite the progress made at COP28, many gaps and loopholes must still be plugged

  • Sheree Bega
  • Mandisa Makgakga
6 min read
Fuelling destruction: A protest at COP28 in the United Arab Emirates. Photo: Dominika Zarzycka/Getty Images
AL GORE

People power needed to boot the fox out of the henhouse

The influence of proponents of fossil fuels at the COP28 climate conference represents a dangerous conflict of interests

  • Alex Lenferna
6 min read
COP28 president Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)
COP28

Pressure mounts on COP28 president as fossil fuel debate sizzles

Battle lines have previously been drawn on whether to agree to ‘phase out’ or ‘phase down’ fossil fuels

  • Hashem Osseiran
  • Benjamin Legendre
4 min read
COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber. (F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ADNOC

The president-designate of the climate change conference is an oil man

The President is the CEO of a major global oil company

  • Ozayr Patel
5 min read
Transport Minister Barbara Creecy
BARBARA CREECY

Creecy ‘honoured’ by appointment to consult nations for the first stocktake on climate progress

South Africa’s environment minister and her Danish counterpart will review achievements of the Paris Agreement’s goals for COP28 in Dubai

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
: Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, President-Designate of the UNFCCC COP28 climate conference and CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, speaks at the UNFCCC SB58 Bonn Climate Change Conference on June 8, 2023 in Bonn, Germany. The conference, which lays the groundwork for the adoption of decisions at the upcoming COP28 climate conference in Dubai in December, will run until June 15. (Photo by Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)
ADNOC

Phase out, don’t phase down fossil fuels as Sultan Al Jaber states, say his critics

The COP28 president-designate said governments must be brutally honest about gaps in tackling climate change

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read