Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani has been appointed as a member of the advisory committee to the president of the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Indo Asian News Service has reported.
Ambani, who is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, has joined other important global leaders on the COP28 body such as Larry Fink, chairman and chief executive officer of BlackRock; Olafur Grimsson, former president of Iceland and currently chairman of Arctic Circle; Laurent Fabius, president of COP21 / Paris Agreement and a former prime minister of France; Francesco La Camera, director general, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA); among others.
Ambani, 66, is the only Indian appointed on the advisory committee other than Sunita Narain, director general, Centre for Science and Environment.
The COP28 UAE Advisory Committee sees climate experts from six continents coming together. The committee's 31 members represent policy, industry, energy, finance, civil society, and other sectors. More than 60 per cent of them are from the Global South and are expected to give guidance and advice to the COP presidency in the run-up to COP28 and beyond.
The COP28 will be held in Dubai Expo City between November 30 and December 12 this year.
In January, the UNFCCC secretariat announced Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE's minister of industry and advanced technology and special envoy for climate change, as the COP 28 president-designate.
Army personnel stand amid the rubble following an explosion inside the police headquarters at Kohat in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on September 18, 2026. An explosion at a historic police headquarters in northern Pakistan on September 18 killed at least eight people and wounded 35 more, officials said, with the country's president swiftly blaming a militant group. Getty Images
Mourners read the holy Quran while sitting around the grave of a paramilitary personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC) who was killed during the Afghanistan-Pakistan border clashes, in Kohat on October 17, 2025. A ceasefire along the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan was holding on October 16, officials on both sides said, after dozens of troops and civilians were killed in cross-border clashes.Getty Images
