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The new Africa Institute in UAE will highlight open air design

Inhabitat - Innovation

Dedicated to the advanced study, research and documentation of Africa and the African diaspora in the Arab world, the Africa Institute in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates recently commissioned Adjaye Associates to design a new 343,175-square-foot campus.

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Agreement to phase out fossil fuels would be huge for humanity, says Gore

The Guardian: Energy

It would be a “welcome surprise” if world leaders agreed at the climate talks to call for an end to fossil fuels, but such a declaration would have “enormous impact” upon the world, Gore told the Guardian at the gathering in the United Arab Emirates. Continue reading.

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Cop28 host UAE has world’s biggest climate-busting oil plans, data indicates

The Guardian: Energy

State oil company’s huge expansion plans make its CEO’s role as president of UN climate summit ‘ridiculous’, say researchers The state oil company of the United Arab Emirates, whose CEO will preside over imminent UN climate negotiations, has the largest net-zero-busting expansion plans of any company in the world, according to new data.

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‘I wasn’t the obvious choice’: meet the oil man tasked with saving the planet

The Guardian: Energy

He is the United Arab Emirates’ choice to head up the climate talks – and he also happens to be head of the national oil company. Cop28 will gather the heads of state and government from a potential 196 countries to draw up an escape plan for a world on fire. Continue reading.

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Commentary: Defund the COPs

Energy Central

That’s Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates, a leading oil and gas producer. Indeed, the UAE holds the world’s sixth largest natural gas reserves and the seventh largest oil reserves. So a major fossil energy power will be hosting COP28, the 28th meeting of the United Nation’s.

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UAE inaugurates giant solar plant, two weeks before climate talks

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The United Arab Emirates inaugurated on Thursday one of the world's biggest solar plants, two weeks before the oil-rich Gulf state hosts UN climate talks.

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An oil exec, a climate crisis, and reparations: what’s going down at the United Nations summit in Dubai

The Verge: Energy

COP28 logo on the opening day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on November 30, 2023. How much money do the most polluting countries owe the rest of the world? That’s all on the table at the United Nations Climate Change Conference underway in Dubai.