The annual international greenwashing lollapalooza, COP28, kicks off in Dubai tomorrow. That’s Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates, a leading oil and gas producer. Indeed, the UAE holds the world’s sixth largest natural gas reserves and the seventh largest oil reserves.
So a major fossil energy power will be hosting COP28, the 28th meeting of the United Nation’s “conference of the parties” that are members of the UN’s “Framework Convention on Climate Change.” If the past is a guide, some 20,000 individuals of varied interests are already in Dubai for the COP.
Leading the host delegation, essentially steering the enormous political and policy scrum, is Sultan al-Jaber, 49, whose real-life job is head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC), the UAE’s state-owned oil company, the world’s 12 largest oil producer. He also founded Masdar, a renewable energy company that pales in comparison to ADNOC.