# The COP28 Agenda is a Recipe for Economic Armageddon: An Open Letter to Sultan Al Jaber, UAE President of COP28

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The world has a problem: Big Oil’s hijacking of the climate action narrative. The power of the legacy energy industry means that mountains of flawed and backwards thinking – much of which contributed to the climate crisis – is preventing major institutions from recognising the most transformative pathways forward. It’s also exposing them to gigantic financial risks which are about to unfold in the next few years. I decided to write directly to Sultan Al Jaber, the UAE President of the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate summit, to provide them with an economic and technological reality-check. Here’s my open letter:

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://ageoftransformation.org/the-cop28-agenda-is-a-recipe-for-economic-armageddon-an-open-letter-to-sultan-al-jaber-president-of-cop28/](https://ageoftransformation.org/the-cop28-agenda-is-a-recipe-for-economic-armageddon-an-open-letter-to-sultan-al-jaber-president-of-cop28/)