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The UAE is hosting the world’s biggest annual climate summit. It’s also planning a massive fossil fuel expansion (www.cnn.com)
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[-] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Lmao the UAE hosting a climate summit is like Russia hosting a human rights summit

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago

So the UAE hosting a human rights summit would be like Russia hosting a climate summit?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

[-] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Haha yeah pretty much

[-] zoe@jlai.lu 5 points 11 months ago

c/boringdystopia

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago

If this is some sort of pilot program for implementing carbon credits/taxes that would be a massive improvement over what we have now, which is diddly squat.

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