Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is expected in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday to meet with Guyanese President Irfaan Ali, amid high tensions over a dispute involving a potentially oil-rich border area.
The initiative secured $25 million each from six oil companies: BP Plc, Eni SpA, Equinor ASA, Occidental Petroleum Corp., Shell Plc and TotalEnergies SE. Some countries also ponied up, with the United Arab Emirates that is hosting COP28 providing $100 million; the US, $2 million; Germany, $1.5 million; and Norway, $1 million.
No mention of #Adnoc? Isn’t there a bit of a scandal with Sultan Al Jabar being part of COP28 while being the CEO of Adnoc?
BTW, indeed that list of oil companies seems to be a lesser of evils AFAICT, apart perhaps from Shell who Greenpeace really picks on for some reason (maybe the spills?)
The greatest of evils should of course be boycotted. There is no reason you have to buy fuel from:
Chevron (an ALEC member who was caught financing the cloakroom project to conceal meetings between US republicans and giant corps)
Exxon/Mobil who discovered climate change and concealed it (#ExxonKnew)
The best action is to stop driving a personal car. But if you don’t think you can (yes you can; #fuckCars), the least you can do is boycott #Chevron and #ExxonMobile.
This is Darren Woods, the current CEO of Exxon. He doesn't want you to think of him as a villain.
He wants you to "consider all options, even those that don't align with your ideology," while ruling out options that don't align with his free market ideology.
He wants "market-based solutions," but he also wants taxpayer investments in technologies that would keep Exxon in business--like carbon capture.
He says we need to "get real," while proposing that no slowdown of international trade is permissible.
"Oil and gas companies reliably provide affordable products essential to modern life. Making them into villains is easy. But it does nothing – absolutely nothing – to accomplish the goal of reducing emissions," he says, without presenting any evidence that recognizing the evil of Exxon and its human agents hurts the goal of reducing emissions.
Venezuela, Guyana presidents to meet amid territorial dispute (www.reuters.com)
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is expected in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday to meet with Guyanese President Irfaan Ali, amid high tensions over a dispute involving a potentially oil-rich border area.
Chevron, Exxon Opt Out of Funding COP28 Methane-Reduction Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
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