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...This compares with the 36,000-plus tally of the core participants at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the year before, or an increase of 80 per cent....
...In connection, Mohamed El-Erian, a lead director, will become board chair....
...Female national negotiators have complained about harassment and bullying at preceding UN climate meetings, in particular at COP27 at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt....
...“This COP is even more of a trade show than we saw in Glasgow and Sharm el-Sheikh [in 2021 and 2022],” said Alex Scott, climate diplomacy and geopolitics lead at the climate-focused think-tank E3G....
...The figures do not compare directly with the 636 lobbyists identified at the previous UN climate summit held last year at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, which was based on more limited data at the time....
...Previous COP presidents have also worn two hats: Shoukry, for example, helmed last year’s conference in Sharm el-Sheikh while also managing Egyptian foreign policy....
...As I reported from Sharm el-Sheikh last year, the final days of COP27 brought a late effort by dozens of countries to include in the final declaration a reference to the “phase-down” of all fossil fuels....
...“The fact that this manoeuvre was pulled at the COP in Sharm el-Sheikh left a pretty sour taste in my mouth,” says Whitehouse, who for nine years gave a weekly speech in the US Senate warning about the impending...
...But when von der Leyen met Sunak at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on November 7 2022, less than a fortnight into the British leader’s premiership, something clicked....
...“Even if we do [what was agreed at summits in] Glasgow and Sharm el-Sheikh, we are on the way to 2.4C [warming] and we’re not going to do everything that we said, so we’re on the way to 3C. 3C is really...
...But White’s love for Abu Dhabi is longstanding. And weird. It stems from the fact that crown prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan is really into Brazilian ju-jitsu....
...A five minute layover — dubbed the “diplomatic stop” — at Sharm El Sheikh airport on the Red Sea would scrub the flight of its antecedents, and clear it to fly to the UAE....
...Pope Francis will also meet Muslim leaders such as Ahmed el-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar mosque in Cairo....
...Abu Dhabi’s foreign policy has forced Dubai, for the first time, to choose politics over business....
...Moscow has suspended all flights to and from Egyptian airports and several western governments have stopped flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, the south Sinai resort from where the plane took off and where intelligence...
...The bulk of the announcements at the gathering at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh were in upstream natural gas production and power generation....
...The Sharm el-Sheikh conference, which runs until Sunday, will present $35bn worth of government projects to foreign investors....
...Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi and the royal garden at Jal Mahal in India....
...The militias, the extremists, are fighting people like Sheikh Qassem.”...
...Mr Blair met John Kerry, US secretary of state, on Saturday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to discuss a possible role change....
...The ferocious dragon-helmeted “El Gran Turco” engraving, 1460, attributed to the Master of the Vienna Passion, is mere allegorical capriccio, based on a Byzantine medal....
...Another designer, Najla El Zein expresses the same thought when we meet for lunch that day....
...Tarek El Diwany, a derivatives trader turned Islamic finance proselyte, is a particularly fierce critic of the modern industry....
...The V&A will portray the invention of the cultured pearl and its industrial scale production, which finally made pearls affordable for many....
...In 2006, Renaissance Sharm El Sheikh Golden View Beach Resort was its first international venture....
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