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? Good COP, Bad COP

Climate Tech VC

Like Disneyland, at COP28 you can choose your own adventure – from hubs on energy transition and climate finance, to side events and roundtables in swanky hotel ballrooms, or serious negotiations in the sectioned-off blue zone. Climate tech played its biggest role ever at COP this year. The oil & gas COP.

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Cop out? Hard truths in Dubaiā€¦

Terra Infirma

While we in the West derided COP President’s Sultan Al Jaber’s outburst about going back to living in caves, in the Middle East that ain’t too far from the truth. The post Cop out? If/when the oil economy fades, so will the wealth and power of the region. Hard truths in Dubai… appeared first on Terra Infirma.

COP 97
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As Cop29 president, I will build bridges between the diverging north and south to keep 1.5C in reach | Mukhtar Babayev

The Guardian: Energy

Increased electricity demand and energy-disrupting conflicts in Europe and the Middle East played their part. obligations requires clean energy consumption and production to shift together, and that we must find mechanisms to guard against further interruption of both by future geopolitical events.

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Cop28 president says his firm will keep investing in oil

The Guardian: Energy

Exclusive: Sultan Al Jaber says Adnoc has to meet demand for fossil fuels, and hails ā€˜unprecedentedā€™ Cop deal The president of the Cop28 climate summit will continue with his oil companyā€™s record investment in oil and gas production , despite coordinating a global deal to ā€œtransition awayā€ from fossil fuels. Continue reading.

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Cop 28: Australia, US and UK say they wonā€™t sign agreement that would be ā€˜death certificateā€™ for small islands

The Guardian: Energy

A statement delivered by the Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, on behalf of whatā€™s known as the umbrella group of countries, came as tensions flared at the United Arab Emirates over the text of a draft deal proposed by the summit presidency.

COP 96
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How Japan and other energy importers can spur global methane action

Energy Central

Japan Announced at COP 27, the joint declaration by key natural gas exporters, the United States, Norway and Canada, and importers, the European Union, Japan and Singapore, demonstrates the growing recognition that the supply and demand sides of energy markets must work together to reduce global methane emissions.

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Smart grids vital to green energy drive

Smart Energy International

The global energy landscape is on the cusp of transformational changes as the migration to clean power gathers pace. With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda.