Next UN climate summit to consider health issues in depth for first time

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Cop28 president Sultan Al Jaber says summit in Dubai in November will dedicate a day to health

earlier this year. He is chief executive of the UAE national oil company, Adnoc, as well as founder of the Masdar renewable energy company, and minister of advanced technology for the UAE. Adnoc is one of the world’s biggest national oil companies, and the Guardian revealed last month its plans for aMany climate campaigners have criticised Al Jaber’s dual role, and the UAE’s plans to continue drilling.

Alex Scott, the climate diplomacy and geopolitics programme leader at the E3G thinktank, said Al Jaber must respond to his critics at the Petersberg dialogue. “These talks are a chance for the UAE to address the criticism they have faced, and start setting out a really ambitious agenda for what countries should be preparing to bring to Cop28,” he said.

to poor countries that was promised more than a decade ago. He said their continued failure to do so was “holding up progress”. The key issue of climate justice – focusing on the poor and vulnerable countries that are most at risk from the climate crisis while having done least to cause it – must be at the heart of Cop28 and preceding talks, campaigners say.

 

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