{"id":6193,"date":"2023-05-29T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/un-climate-conference-hires-ex-boris-johnson-aide-who-opposed-oil-and-gas-tax"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:31:57","slug":"un-climate-conference-hires-ex-boris-johnson-aide-who-opposed-oil-and-gas-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/un-climate-conference-hires-ex-boris-johnson-aide-who-opposed-oil-and-gas-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"UN climate conference hires ex-Boris Johnson aide who opposed oil and gas tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UAE_1685360909.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The organisers of this year\u2019s UN climate talks in the United Arab Emirates have hired a controversial former Downing Street aide to Boris Johnson, prompting concern among some environmentalists.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>But, in a world first, we saw one of the tiniest countries on earth, and a group of law students from Fiji, convince every country on earth to pass a crucial resolution at the UN that could transform how the world understands our legal obligations to tackling the climate crisis.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, a Nairobi-based climate and energy think-tank, said Canzini\u2019s appointment posed \u201ca real danger to global efforts to tackle climate change and the credibility of the summit\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organisers of this year\u2019s UN climate talks in the United Arab Emirates have hired a controversial former Downing Street aide to Boris Johnson, prompting concern among some environmentalists. But, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":6194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,25],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-6193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-climate-finance","tag-energy-transition"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6814,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions\/6814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}