Welcome back to Wicked Problems. Kudos to John Cooper and BAR Technologies for their big splash with sail cargo for Cargill (if you were a subscriber to our old newsletter you’d have heard about them months ago). We’re 100 days away from the kickoff in Dubai of COP28.
Marking the event, the world’s warmer-than-ever-recorded oceans fed a storm that left Hollywood and Las Vegas under water. Maybe that’ll convince Apple to greenlight Extrapolations series 2. Then again, as Andrew Freedman of Axios reported, it’s just a preview of summers to come.
Expect to see debates begin to kick into high gear on climate finance, biodiversity, the role of oil & gas in the conversation, and of course the nexus between COP President-Designate Sultan al-Jaber and his many roles - CEO Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) CEO, Chairman of Masdar (the renewables developer owned by the emirate’s Sovereign Wealth Fund).
Al-Jaber and the comms effort around…
