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Hi, Quartz members! Of the many dispiriting ways in which a climate summit can start, the United Arab Emirates may have found the worst of them all. Mere days before the UN’s COP28 summit was to begin on Nov. 30 in Abu Dhabi, the Centre for Climate Reporting and the BBC revealed that the UAE has used the summit as a pretext to boost its oil and gas business. Advertisement Sultan al-Jaber, the Emirati president-designate of COP28, is also the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), a title he has retained despite calls for him to step...
