“The oil tankers are starting to be afraid”: at COP28, this letter from OPEC which ignites the debates

2023-12-09 17:58:27

Tick-tock, tick-tock… Three days before the end of COP28, the world climate conference in Dubai, the controversial declarations of the Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had the effect of a bomb and fueled all the discussions this Saturday, while negotiators from 197 countries try to agree on a common position.

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In a letter dated Wednesday, Kuwaiti leader Haitham al-Ghais “urges” his members and their delegations to “proactively reject any text or formulation that targets energy, i.e. fossil fuels, rather than greenhouse gas emissions.