United Arab Emirates, which hosts the COP28 climate summit, Take advantage of this situation as an opportunity to make oil and gas deals with other countries, the British BBC network reported. The event will start this Thursday and run until early December in Dubai.
Documents available to this public channel reveal plans for the country hosting the climate event to discuss fuel agreements with 15 other countries.
Emirates team apparently responsible for organizing the summit He did not deny that he benefited from meetings related to summit preparations holding business meetings.
According to Efe’s news based on BBC, this team claimed that “private meetings are private” and assured that their work was focused on “important climate measures”.
The documents in question, obtained by independent journalists from the Climate Information Center working with the BBC, were prepared by the COP28 team from the United Arab Emirates, taking into account their discussions with at least 27 foreign governments before the summit started the next day. .
These documents will include suggestions for “topics for comment,” including China. Emirates state oil company Adnoc “willing to jointly consider international liquefied natural gas opportunities” in Mozambique, Canada and Australia.
The documents also suggested telling a Colombian minister that Adnoc was “willing” to support Colombia’s development of fossil fuel resources.
“Talking topics”
The BBC said it had prepared “talking points” for 13 other countries, such as Germany and Egypt, in which it was suggested that Adnoc wanted to work with their governments. Developing fossil fuel projects.
The documents also show that the UAE is preparing other “talking points” about business opportunities for renewable energy company Masdar ahead of meetings with 20 countries, including the UK, US, France, Germany, Netherlands, Brazil and China, Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Kenya.
According to the same information; These meetings were chaired by COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber, who is also the CEO of Emirates oil giant Adnoc. and Masdar, the state’s renewable energy utility, were responsible for preparing the documents.
The BBC notes that it is not clear how many times Jaber and his colleagues raised such issues in COP28-related meetings with foreign governments.
The public chain also shows: On at least one occasion, he was aware that one of the foreign countries was continuing these trade negotiations. This meeting was subsequently led by the United Arab Emirates team, but the other 12 countries guaranteed that commercial activities would not be discussed at relevant meetings.
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