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Three climate fights will dominate COP28

Whether the summit ends in breakdown or breakthrough depends on one man

Posters depicting Sultan al-Jaber, the COP28 President, are displayed at a bus stop outside the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany.
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The United Arab Emirates, venue for cop28, the latest climate summit convened by the United Nations, is a controversial choice. Some 70,000 climate advocates, diplomats and other hangers-on will attend an event that begins on November 30th in Dubai, one of the gleaming cities built on wealth that fossil fuels have brought to the region. The fact that the world’s most important climate gathering will be hosted by a leading oil producer has sparked outrage among environmentalists. That the summit’s president, Sultan Al Jaber, runs adnoc, the uae’s national oil company (noc), is proof, whisper conspiracists, that the fix is in on behalf of Big Oil.

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