The United Arab Emirates planned to use its role as the host of UN climate talks as an opportunity to strike oil and gas deals, the BBC has learned.
Leaked briefing documents reveal plans to discuss fossil fuel deals with 15 nations.
The UN body responsible for the COP28 summit told the BBC hosts were expected to act without bias or self-interest.
The UAE team did not deny using COP28 meetings for business talks, and said "private meetings are private".
Private meetings are private and corrupt intent is corrupt. Using a summit on climate issues to negotiate oil and gals deals is akin to hosting a summit on human trafficking and using that as a way to get laid.
From small to large methane department
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The UAE banned routine flaring 20 years ago, but satellite images show it is continuing, despite the potential health consequences for its inhabitants and those in neighbouring countries.
Analysis for BBC Arabic shows gasses are now spreading hundreds of kilometres across the region.
Pollution from wells in Iraq, Iran and Kuwait were also analysed as part of the study. All of the countries involved either declined to comment or did not respond.
Oil companies, including BP and Shell, who are responsible or partly responsible for sites where flaring took place said they were working to reduce the practice.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67522413
What's a little benzene among friends?
2. For instance, the amount of gas currently flared each year – about 140 billion cubic meters – could power the whole of sub-Saharan Africa...
The methane emissions resulting from the inefficiency of the flare combustion contribute significantly to global warming. This is particularly so in the short to medium term as, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, methane is over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a warming gas on a 20-year timeframe.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/gasflaringreduction/gas-flaring-explained
3. Worldwide satellite map of methane emissions.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149374/mapping-methane-emissions-from-fossil-fuel-exploitation
Cows don't look so bad now do they?
Deep State Radio (David Rothkopf) had a whole series on how COP28 would be a nothing burger and ... e voila!
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