COP28: Meet the top UK politicians paid big to ‘advise’ oil rich Gulf states

Gulf states pushing fossil fuels at COP have hired Philip Hammond, Tony Blair, Francis Maude and other former leading politicians as ‘consultants’

COP28 wraps up in Dubai this week. Reports suggest the draft agreement has dropped references to a phase out of fossil fuels after opposition from oil and gas-producing countries led by Saudi Arabia.

That this COP has been marked by an unprecedented lobbying blitz been much commented on in the British press. But I was surprised to see little mention of a…