With COP 28, the 28 Annual United Nations Climate Meeting not ‘many moons’ behind us, global heavyweight oil and gas companies have been accused by environmental lobbyists of proffering ‘spin over substance’ undertakings at the Dubai forum to cut emissions even as their operational plans, going forward, point to the projected production of “billions of tonners of CO2” in the years ahead. Global Witness, a three-decade old international NGO that embraces as part of its agenda working to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses, globally, has ‘turned out’ a new analysis that address some of the ‘goings on’ at the November-December climate forum, accusing the heavyweights of deception in their strategic approach to the Dubai deliberations.
