H/Advisors Cicero

Another COP has come to a close, and in a year of geopolitical turmoil and the world experiencing record breaking temperatures, bringing nation states together at COP28 was deemed of vital importance. There had been much scepticism about this year’s conference, most notably because of the host nation being an oil producing state. The choice of COP28’s president was also an unusual one, Sultan al-Jaber being the Chief Executive of the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), which allegedly has the biggest net-zero busting expansion plan in the world. However, some argued that being an oil company Chief Executive…