The Cop28 president has claimed there is no science behind calls to phase-out fossil fuels as a way of limiting global heating to 1.5C.
The remarks by Sultan Ahmed al Jaber, the United Arab Emirate’s designated leader of the summit in Dubai, resurfaced on Sunday, sparking a backlash from some experts.
During an online event alongside former Irish president Mary Robinson last month, Mr Jaber insisted a phase-out of oil would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.
The remarks, first reported by The Guardian, rippled through the Dubai summit on Sunday and were met with dismay by some climate scientists and activists.
This is exactly why they hosted it in an OPEC nation; to continue hamstringing the transition from fossils & delaying the impact to their profit margins — the same thing they’ve been doing for the last 50 years.
And here I thought they only hosted this in an OPEC nation because of the ease of disappearing protestors.
Hey, it can be for multiple reasons!
It’s hosted every year. I think hosting in a shit hole to highlight the shit every once in a while is a valid strategy.
Then they should have hosted it in an shit hole that will rather than one of the most profitable countries in the world. Or do you think it’s just full of sand and put made of mud?
Dubai is hardly a shit hole, they’re rolling in oil money. I assume you’re just being a racist and didn’t actually base your comment on anything factual.
Culturally they are a shit hole despite their enormous wealth.
Or are you going to defend the way they legally mistreat women, homosexuals, atheists and use slaves?
No, I solely meant economically. To be shit hole sounds like a poor or run down area
They are morally poor and run down.
Build on slave work, funded with money from shady origins, dependent on oil and other resources because it’s in the fucking desert and wouldn’t survive a month without maintenance, only for the rich, the poor live in slums outside where nobody sees them…checks all the boxes for a shithole imho.
I can’t think of a city on earth that would survive a month without outside resources, friend. All the same, yes Dubai is a horrible ego trip and built on suffering.
Also among the highest C02 emissions per capita on Earth.
So they’re rich that means it’s not a shithole? It’s culturaly not even in the 21st century lol
Arguably, they have a ways to go to come into the 19th century.
They mean environmental shithole, as it’s relevant to an environmental conference
Oh, well that’s fair