Leaked documents show how the COP28 host planned to use its role to strike fossil fuel business deals.

The documents - obtained by independent journalists at the Centre for Climate Reporting working alongside the BBC - were prepared by the UAE’s COP28 team for meetings with at least 27 foreign governments ahead of the COP28 summit, which starts on 30 November.

  • symthetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    The rich are killing us all, but don’t seem to realise that they won’t be escaping either. Shit rises to the top.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I hope they enjoy living in fear as the world dies around them. They’ll get a few more years than the rest of us, and somehow they think this matters.

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m sure the billionaires that feel like they just have to travel the entire world in building-sized yatches, and living in gigantic villas, as well as having private jets to fly everywhere, would love to spend the rest of their lives in a security bunker with the same people (that definitively won’t ever rebel).