Can an oil exec successfully lead COP28?

Zero: The Climate Race

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🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The UN Climate Conference COP28 starts next week. Before Akshat heads to the conference he’s joined by Aaron Rutkoff, the editor of Bloomberg Green, to talk about what COP’s current controversial president Sultan Al Jaber has accomplished so far and what he must achieve. They also decode COP jargon like “orderly decline,” discuss the stakes for the UAE’s biggest diplomatic exercise and expectations for the final communiqué.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Olivia Rudgard, a reporter for Bloomberg Green. I'm currently working on a piece
0:05.7	about climate anxiety and I have a request for zero listeners. Climate change can cause stress, both
0:11.1	with people directly affected by it and for those concerned about its effects on others and
0:14.8	their future. If you're okay to share your experience of this, we would love to hear from you. Tell
0:20.3	us what makes you
0:21.0	worry, how your worries affect your life, and what helps you feel better. Take our short survey.
0:25.9	There's a link in the show notes. Thank you.
0:32.2	Welcome to Zero. I'm Aaron Rutkoff, executive editor of Bloomberg Green. Some of you listening
0:36.9	to this podcast are no doubt among the 70,000 people traveling to Dubai next week for the UN's annual climate summit, COP28.
0:44.2	It's a huge event, and a lot of the focus in the lead-up has been on one character, Sultan al-Jabber.
0:49.7	He's top 28's president.
0:51.2	He's charged with bringing everyone together and settling the climate summit's
0:54.8	ambitions. He's also the head of the United Arab Emirates state oil company Adnach. This was, to say
1:00.5	the least, a controversial placement. Earlier this year, Zero's regular host, Akshot Rathi, wrote a
1:06.5	profile of Sultan al-Jabber. I came on the podcast to talk to Akshott about it and asking basically what
1:13.6	someone like Al Jabber's leadership would mean for an institution like Kopp. If you'd like to listen to
1:18.3	that episode, we've linked to it in the show notes. Today, we're giving an update about everything
1:22.2	that's happened over the past six months before Akshott and the rest of the green team goes to
1:26.7	Kopp next week. Okshott, welcome to of the green team goes to COP next week.
1:28.4	Ockshot, welcome to the show.
1:29.9	Hey, good to be here.
1:31.6	All right, let's be honest, Akshot.
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