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...Sultan al-Jaber, the president of this year’s COP28 in Dubai....
...Malaysia paid more than S$100mn (US$74mn) in compensation to Singapore for the termination....
...Khan (1948-97), the larger-than-life singer who performed at the Womad world music festival and recorded traditional albums for Peter Gabriel’s Real World label as well as fusion albums (most notably 1990’s...
...Roman Kramarchuk, head of future energy analytics at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said policy changes linked to COP28 were “inherently a long-term story”....
...Masdar is chaired by COP28 president-designate Sultan al-Jaber, who is also head of the petrostate’s oil company....
...Sultan al-Jaber, president-designate of COP28, had on Friday strongly urged countries to reach a consensus, with the talks pushed overnight....
...While there was no agreement on fossil fuels, the G20’s pledge to boost green energy was widely welcomed....
...Sultan al-Jaber, president of COP28 and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, courted dozens of diplomats and ministers overnight on Tuesday to back the compromise deal....
...While the numbers were impacted by 2022’s whopping $1.6bn made at Christie’s New York from the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen — “a difficult act to follow”, says Pi-eX chief executive Christine...
...S&P 500 futures were down 0.1 per cent during morning trading in Europe. 2....
...Investors were very, very excited by all this news and the S&P 500 jumped by 1.4 per cent. We’ll get even more monetary policy news soon....
...“Landlords suffered with low rents for many years and nobody brought this issue up,” Sultan added....
...Alice Harrison, campaign leader for fossil fuels at Global Witness, said COP28’s decision to hire Canzini seemed “very on-brand for a summit that is already looking set to be a polluter’s paradise”....
...Cars, watches and handbags could be targeted by new anti-money laundering controls in Singapore in the aftermath of a S$2.8bn (US$2bn) scandal....
...In January, rating agency S&P warned that, without action, around half of the world’s largest economies will by downgraded to junk status by 2060....
...But it is the first to choose a COP president, Sultan al-Jaber, who is also chief executive of one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies — the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company....
...Sultan al-Jaber, the president of COP28, the UN-sponsored climate summit, at the same time as being chairman of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, offered the industry a seat at the table at the climate...
...London.But as my colleagues wrote last week, there are graver concerns that December’s UN climate conference, COP28, is at risk of being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan...
...BP reported better than expected profits of $5bn for the first quarter, albeit down from 2022’s record levels, and said it would slow down its share buyback programme....
...They were originally seen as a steampunk outfit, albeit one that questioned the Victorian imperial assumptions of the genre — in 2012’s The Mutiny, they revived the story of Tipu Sultan, and sour seasonal...
...But Turkey was kicked out of the European consortium building the F-35, the new generation stealth fighter jet, for this S-400 purchase....
...S&P acknowledges that Country Garden has a “stronger-than-peer funding capability” given its recent record....
...In The Lion House (Bodley Head, March), Christopher de Bellaigue offers a novelistic reconstruction of the rise to power of the Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent....
...This is the brutal reality we’re confronted with from the very outset of The Hunter — a based-on-real-events drama acquired by Channel 4’s foreign-language platform, Walter Presents — which opens with archive...
...It will compete with Dubai, operated by S&P Global Platts, and the Oman crude futures on the Dubai Mercantile Exchange....
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