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The world’s most important climate meeting this year is going to be headed up by one of the world’s most oil-reliant countries. It sounds like the plot of an absurdist play, but it’s reality, and the cracks are already starting to show ahead of an especially crucial year for climate action.What Is Carbon Capture? With Gizmodo’s Molly Taft | TechmodoEach year, the UN hosts what’s known as a Conference of Parties, or COP, in a different country to keep the world on track in working toward halting runaway climate change.…

Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber speaks at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Forum last year.Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi (AP)The leader of one of Washington, DC’s most influential foreign policy think tanks got caught shilling for an oil CEO on a major news site—by a right-wing publication that runs hit pieces on renewable energy. This sounds like a Mad Lib, but it’s 2023, and anything is possible!On Saturday, CNBC posted an op-ed from Fred Kempe, the CEO of the Atlantic Council and a regular contributor to the site. Kempe has several…

For nearly 30 years, nations, nonprofits, researchers, industry representatives, and other stakeholders have gathered annually at the United Nations’ Conference of Parties—commonly known as COP—to talk through implementation of the U.N.’s climate change treaty. Though deeply imperfect, these summits are a critical focal point of global climate diplomacy and policy every year.But this year’s COP28 is set to be overshadowed by amassive conflict of interest: The president of the conference—charged with leading preparations,…