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Dubai Plans to Cut Carbon Emissions in Half by End of Decade | Does not plan to stop extracting fossil fuels (www.bloomberg.com)
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This should be considered in light of the fact that they're still largely putting up buildings with energy-intensive designs:

for every new sustainable building in Dubai, there are many designs that largely disregard the climate

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[โ€“] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Not only Dubai - Brazil wants to show how green it is and shift to renewables, yet at the same time to become a mega oil exporter, drilling deep below the salt. And this is not new - I remember they had similar a contradiction during Lula's previous term too.
Maybe this doesn't matter, beyond wasted effort, if there's nowhere left to sell oil. However I suspect their plan is that Africa will be the big market (look at the demographics).

[โ€“] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Well one of those things is a lie.