The UAE has named state oil company chief Sultan Al Jaber as president of the UN climate conference.
So how does Sultan Al Jaber reconcile these two agendas?
He has been quoted by the state-run news WAM agency as saying that the UAE was approaching COP28 "with a strong sense of responsibility and the highest possible level of ambition". "People should not see him just as an evil producer of greenhouse gases," Tosi Mpanu Mpanu, lead climate negotiator for the Democratic Republic of Congo and a former head of the African group at climate conferences told the BBC.
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