The UAE said Thursday that the head of state oil giant ADNOC will lead the COP28 climate talks in Dubai later this year, prompting a furious backlash.
The appointment of Sultan al-Jaber as COP28 president-designate provoked a furious backlash from climate activists and civil society groups."This appointment goes beyond putting the fox in charge of the henhouse," said Teresa Anderson, global lead on climate justice at ActionAid, a development charity.
The office of al-Jaber — who also serves as UAE minister for industry and technology and the country's climate envoy —he would play a pivotal role in intergovernmental negotiations in order to build consensus at the conference. "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," Anderson said.
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