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Podcast: Climate Conversations
Episode: Interview: David Spratt casts doubt on success of COP 28
Description: Melbourne's David Spratt (pictured), who co-authored the prescient 2008 book, "Climate Code Red", has questioned the value of the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP) about to begin in the United Arab Emirates.
David and a former international oil, gas and coal industry
executive, chair of the Australian Coal Association and CEO of the
Australian Institute of Company Directors, Ian Dunlop, wrote the Pearls and Irritations article, "COP-out: Why the petrostate-hosted climate talkfest will fail".
The BBC reports in a story "COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals", and in a second...