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Only two countries – Brazil (3,081) and hosts U.A.E (4,409) – had more representatives than the oil and gas industry, a new report says.

Al Gore slammed the UAE hours after it was revealed the Cop28 president said there is ‘no science’ behind phasing out fossil fuels.

The controversial head of the Dubai climate change summit sparked fury among climate leaders after claiming there was "no science" to suggest phasing out fossil fuels will help limit global warming to 1.5C.

Dubai, Dec 2 (EFE). – The United States, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, the Dominican Republic, Iceland, Kosovo and Norway announced on Saturday at COP28 that they are joining the global alliance to abandon coal, a “signal to the global market” that analysts hope can encourage disinvestment in this fossil fuel. Speaking at the UN climate …

Climate analyst Bill Hare described Sultan Al Jaber’s dismissal of the need for a phaseout of fossil fuels as ‘verging on climate denial’

As COP28 unfolds, the tension between economic pragmatism and environmental idealism will undoubtedly remain a central theme.

Disagreements over the phasing out of fossil fuels look set to dominate the two-week COP28 climate meeting in Dubai, after the summit president used his opening speech to argue against a full ban on the use of coal, oil and gas. More than 70,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries are taking part in the United…

Fifty oil companies representing nearly half of global production have pledged to reach near-zero methane emissions and end routine flaring in their operations.

The world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated, experts said. It’s also a conference where one of the central topics will be whether fossil fuels should be phased out, but it will be run by the CEO of an oil company. Key to the session is the first “global stocktake” on climate, when countries look at what’s happened since the ...

The UN said countries have to slash their emissions by 42% by the end of the decade.