Climate justice at campaign group ActionAid said Sultan al-Jaber's 'goes beyond putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.'
to media that if Al-Jaber does not step down from his oil role, "it will be tantamount to a full scale capture of the UN climate talks by a petrostate national oil company and its associated fossil fuel lobbyist."tweeted"We need separate standing bodies focusing on energy, transport, deforestation, loss & damage etc, working all year round," he added. "Not this bloated festival of world leader photoshoots and oil execs.
"The UN Climate Summit is supposed to be a space where the world holds polluters to account, but increasingly its being hijacked by those with opposing interests," she added. "Like last year's summit, we're increasingly seeing fossil fuel interests taking control of the process and shaping it to meet their own needs."
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