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rgb(18, 18, 18);">UAE oil company employees given
roles in office hosting Cop28</h1>
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vertical-align: baseline;">Exclusive: at least 12
officials at body hosting Cop28 appear to have come
straight from fossil fuel industry</p>
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<p class="dcr-h26idz" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin:
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initial;">At least a dozen employees from the United Arab
Emirate’s state-owned oil company have apparently taken up
roles with the office of the UAE’s climate change special
envoy, who will host this year’s<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/cop28"
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none; color: rgb(199, 0, 0);" moz-do-not-send="true">Cop28</a><span> </span>UN
climate summit.</p>
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initial;">The revelation adds to growing concerns over the
potential for blurred lines between<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/11/uae-to-launch-cop28-presidency-with-oil-boss-tipped-for-leading-role"
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team hosting this year’s crucial summit</a><span> </span>and
the oil-rich country’s influential fossil fuel industry.</p>
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text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">The officials were apparently working in the
UAE’s oil and gas industry immediately before taking up
roles in the Cop28 team, according to an analysis of
LinkedIn accounts by the independent investigative group
Centre for Climate Reporting (CCR), and seen by the
Guardian.</p>
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initial;">Among the officials are two former Abu Dhabi
National<span> </span><a
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none; color: rgb(199, 0, 0);" moz-do-not-send="true">Oil</a><span> </span>Company
(Adnoc) engineers who will act as negotiators on behalf of
the UAE at the conference...</p>
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18); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Whats the big deal
-- happens all the time with digital governance and Big Tech
:) .. Just replace Big Oil with Big Tech, and Saudi Arabia
with the US, and you get the picture. </p>
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text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">More seriously,
would such kind of concerns ever come to the digital sector as
well, or is multistakeholderism precisely the shield developed
so assiduously to anticipate any such 'mishaps'! <br>
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