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<div>You seem to consistently interpret multi stakeholderism as “ignore and marginalise industry”. I am not quite sure it works that way though. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">If this UAE example has the minister’s staff solely comprised of oil company execs that is definitely to be avoided and balanced out with other stakeholders. However using it to further beat the “exclude industry” drum just isn’t on. </div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 3, 2023 10:22:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org <governance@lists.igcaucus.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Governance] Big Oil vrs Big Tech -- two worlds apart</font>
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<h1 class="x_dcr-y70mar" style="">UAE oil company employees given roles in office hosting Cop28</h1>
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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="x_dcr-h26idz" style="">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" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body
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climate summit.</p>
<p class="x_dcr-h26idz" style="">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" data-link-name="in body link" style="box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px; padding:0px; border-width:0px
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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>
<p class="x_dcr-h26idz" style="">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>
<p class="x_dcr-h26idz" style="">Among the officials are two former Abu Dhabi National<span> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/oil" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body
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(Adnoc) engineers who will act as negotiators on behalf of the UAE at the conference...</p>
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<p class="x_dcr-h26idz" style="">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.
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<p class="x_dcr-h26idz" style="">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'!
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