Oil giants have touted several once-marginal technologies as promising solutions to cut emissions.
Activists in Dubai expect the fight will be even harder, with the hydrocarbons industry intent. / Photo: AP
According to COP28 director general Majid Al Suwadi,"the UAE has been a leader when it comes to climate change".But one of the"inherent flaws of the COP system" is that national interests -- particularly the host's -- inevitably influence the outcome, said Ahmed El Droubi, international campaigns manager at Climate Action Network.
At COP27 in Egypt, where oil and gas lobbyists outnumbered most delegations, the final text included a last-minute provision to boost"low-emission energy".In Dubai, activists expect the fight will be even harder, with the hydrocarbons industry intent on"not just delaying, denying, diverting meaningful climate action, but also greenwashing their polluting work", Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment at Syracuse University, told AFP.
They include carbon capture and storage , direct air capture and carbon credit trading -- all carbon management mechanisms that amount to"false climate solutions", according to Sultana.
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