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COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber denies claims UAE would use climate talks to strike oil deals | Climate News<\/p>\n
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The man running COP28 has denied claims the UAE wanted to use the conference to strike new oil and gas deals.<\/p>\n
The opening of COP28 in Dubai tomorrow risked being overshadowed after leaked documents suggested<\/strong> the Emirates planned to use meetings with other countries to promote trade with it national oil and gas companies.<\/p>\n But as pressure mounted on Wednesday, COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber addressed the accusations.<\/p>\n As he answered the second of only two questions from journalists, Mr Al Jaber said: “These allegations are false, not true, incorrect, and not accurate. It’s an attempt to undermine the work of the COP28 president.”<\/p>\n He did not specify the inaccuracies or deny the existence of such documents. But he said he had never seen or used “these talking points that they refer to”.<\/p>\n Mr Al Jaber’s dual role as president of the climate talks and boss of the state oil company ADNOC has long been criticised as a potential conflict of interest, but calls for him to resign from his position at the firm while running COP have gone unheeded.<\/p>\n He suggested neither his country nor he needed “COP or the COP Presidency to go and establish business deals or commercial relationships”.<\/p>\n When it comes to engaging with fossil fuel companies on cleaning up the energy system, he said: “We’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t.”<\/p>\n Read more: Mr Al Jaber said his team had been “clear, open, clean, honest and transparent on how we’re going to conduct this COP process”.<\/p>\n The claims were first reported by the BBC and Centre for Climate Reporting on Monday.<\/p>\n On Wednesday – a hoax statement sent to the press purportedly from the COP28 team – claimed Mr Al Jaber had agreed to step down as ADNOC CEO.<\/p>\n A COP28 spokesperson said it “has no basis in truth, and must be entirely disregarded as fake news.<\/p>\n “As the COP president said in today’s press conference: ‘It is an attempt to undermine the work of the COP28 presidency’.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a>
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