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The words of the director of the Copernicus climate change service Carlo Buontempo a few days after the UN conference in Dubai:«I hoped it could be an opportunity for oil-producing countries but I don't see encouraging signs»

Increase from 2.5 to 2.9 degrees by 2100.The report before the Cop28 summit in Dubai

According to a report by the Fair Square association, the workers were forced to continue despite this violating a UAE law that requires them to stop during the hottest hours of the day

It had been clear for some time that the United Nations climate summit was a farce, but nevertheless it was difficult to believe that it could have been done even worse.This year, however, the contradictions and potential conflicts of interest have even been put out in the open, in plain sight, before everyone's eyes.The result is, to put it simply, decisions that are supposed to solve the climate crisis they were placed in the hands of those who caused it.The 28th Climate Conference of the Parties (COP28) will take place in the United Arab Emirates and will be chaired by the head of the nation's oil giant.Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), will have the task of defining the agenda of the main international conference on climate issues, playing a central role in the negotiations aimed at reaching, in theory, a consensus on points such as the reduction of CO2 emissions and the progressive abandonment of fossil fuels.An absurdity signed by the Unite...

Ahmed Dalmook al Maktoum, the youngest of the Dubai royal family, seems to want to take over all of Africa.Blue Carbon, the company he leads, is financing projects which, on paper, should protect forests in exchange for carbon credits to be resold, but which in practice sound like one of the most large greenwashing operations. For example, the sheikh will be able to boast conservation rights over approximately 20% of the green areas of Zimbabwe and 10% of Liberia, but the agreements have affected various areas of the continent:to such an extent that the Emirates found themselves at manage 60 million acres of African forest.Numbers that have made Blue Carbon one of the largest and most critical carbon credit companies.Let's explain what it is. To reduce the polluting impact of their operations, many companies and governments around the world have decided to offset the carbon emissions produced financing projects elsewhere clean, sustainable.An exchange validated by the purchase of (at l...