Claims that the United Arab Emirates is utilizing its position as host of the COP28 talks as a discussion board for making ready oil and fuel offers, plus the unrelated however disappointing information that US president Joe Biden is not going to be travelling to Dubai for the occasion, made for a rocky run-up to the UN local weather summit’s kick-off on Thursday.
The earlier so-called Convention of the Events, COP27, held one year-ago in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, ended with none commitments on phasing out fossil fuels and didn’t deal with the rising hole in views between growing and undeveloped or “world south” nations, successfully passing the buck to COP28.
