Climate advocates were outraged when the United Arab Emirates (UAE) named the head of the state oil company, Sultan Al Jaber, as head of this year's UN climate conference (COP28).
But on Monday (16 January), EU climate chief Frans Timmermans defended the decision, saying he was "really excited about the ambitions expressed and had such confidence in [Al Jaber's] ability to steer this year's climate summit in the right direction."
Speaking at the 15th edition of the Abu Dhabi Sus...
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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.