Exclude fossil fuel firms from Cop28 if they only want to obstruct, says ex-UN chief

My patience ran out,' said Christiana Figueres, who for years had advocated oil companies should be involved in policymaking talks

Fossil fuel companies should not be included in the Cop28 climate summit if they continue to block climate action, the UN's former climate chief told reporters on Thursday.

If they are going to be there only to be obstructors, and only to put spanners into the system, they should not be there," said Christiana Figueres, who was pivotal to the delivery of the landmark Paris climate agreement in 2015.