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World Climate Conference: Climate Summit: MPs against oil company boss as leader

World Climate Conference: Climate Summit: MPs against oil company boss as leader

A conflict of interest par excellence: Al-Dschaber is Minister of Industry in the United Arab Emirates and at the same time the head of a state-owned oil company.

Dozens of members of the US Congress and the EU Parliament are demanding that the next world climate conference in Dubai should by no means be chaired by the top manager of an oil company as planned.

COP28 President-elect Sultan Ahmed al-Dschaber will not be allowed to chair the mammoth two-week meeting that begins at the end of November, according to a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, US President Joe Biden and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen , which was available to the German Press Agency.

Al-Dschaber is Industry Minister of the United Arab Emirates, which is hosting the conference, and is also head of the state-owned oil company Adnoc. Environmental protection organizations had previously warned of an unprecedented conflict of interest. In addition, the MEPs, who on the European side mainly belong to the Left and the Greens, called for curbing the influence of oil, gas and coal lobbyists on climate policy.

According to environmentalists, more than 600 lobbyists for oil, gas and coal were registered at the recent climate summit in Egypt. The Emirates are among the ten largest oil producers in the world and want to expand their climate-damaging oil and gas production despite the climate crisis. In the second half of 2022 alone, Adnoc commissioned eight new oil rigs. Al-Dschaber has already attended several UN climate conferences and has also headed a state-owned company for renewable energies.

Source: Stern

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