[Governance] Big Oil vrs Big Tech -- two worlds apart

[parminder via Governance]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/03/uae-oil-company-cop28?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other 



          UAE oil company employees given roles in office hosting Cop28

        Exclusive: at least 12 officials at body hosting Cop28 appear to
        have come straight from fossil fuel industry

        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’sCop28
        <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/cop28>UN climate summit.

        The revelation adds to growing concerns over the potential for
        blurred lines betweenthe team hosting this year’s crucial summit
        <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/11/uae-to-launch-cop28-presidency-with-oil-boss-tipped-for-leading-role>and
        the oil-rich country’s influential fossil fuel industry.

        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.

        Among the officials are two former Abu Dhabi NationalOil
        <https://www.theguardian.com/business/oil>Company (Adnoc)
        engineers who will act as negotiators on behalf of the UAE at
        the conference...

        ENDS

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.

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'!

parminder

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