King Charles will meet President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Dubai before he attends Cop28 climate change conference after he missed last year's event

King Charles will meet the president of the United Arab Emirates before attending the COP28 climate summit in Dubai .

Charles will join Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan tomorrow before delivering the opening address at the World Climate Action Summit on Friday.

The monarch, 75, will also sit down with regional leaders to 'support the UK's efforts to promote peace' in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Charles missed Cop27 in Egypt last year following advice from the Government while Liz Truss was prime minister, despite it being widely reported that he had hoped to attend in person.

Downing Street later acknowledged it might have been possible for the head of state to go if Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had been in office earlier in the year.

King Charles and Queen Camilla at a state banquet at Buckingham Palace for South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee

The monarch will meet UAE president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (middle) when he visits Dubai for COP28 tomorrow

Buckingham Palace revealed more details of his trip today.

Tomorrow, he will meet students from across the Commonwealth to hear about green tech and sustainable innovations.

He will later join a Commonwealth and Nature reception, hosted jointly by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance (CBA).

His Majesty will meet global and Commonwealth indigenous leaders to talk about the role of using traditional knowledge alongside scientific knowledge to address the climate and nature crises.

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Afterwards, Charles will meet female climate leaders working to address climate change and representatives from small island states that are threatened by sea level rises.

On Thursday evening, the King will join His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at a reception to launch COP28.

As Prince of Wales, Charles spent decades passionately campaigning on green and environmental issues.

While Prince of Wales, he had a more central role, delivering the opening address at the main opening ceremony of Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021 and Cop21 in Paris in 2015.

Buckingham Palace announced Charles, who is away on a state visit to Kenya, will travel to the UAE and open the World Climate Action Summit, which forms part of Cop28's programme and convenes heads of state and government and other leaders to discuss concrete plans for tackling climate change.

The King was invited by UAE president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and will attend at the request of the UK Government, the Palace said.

Charles, who will make the trip from November 30 to December 1, will also attend a reception on November 30 to the launch the inaugural Cop28 Business and Philanthropy Climate Forum.

The two-day event runs parallel with the summit and is being hosted by the Cop28 Presidency in partnership with the Sustainable Markets Initiative, founded by the King.

Controversial: Sultan Al Jaber, the Emirati president of COP28, is the head of a massive oil firm

It will bring together business, finance and philanthropy leaders and world leaders to try to find climate solutions.

COP28 has already been overshadowed by leaks suggesting UAE officials used the UN climate change talks to push for lucrative new oil and gas deals.

Sultan Al Jaber, the Emirati president of the UN's COP28 meeting, planned to raise commercial oil and gas interests with foreign officials ahead of talks in the UAE's business hub, leaked internal reports show.

They are the latest claims to cast doubt on whether the talks will boost efforts to cut emissions of planet-heating gases — or are more akin to a public relations exercise for the Gulf petro-monarchy.

Critics have long complained about Al Jaber leading the summit because of a conflict of interest with his other job — chief executive of the UAE's national oil company, Adnoc.

Adnoc reportedly has aggressive expansion plans that will raise carbon emissions, while state-run UAE oil and gas fields flare gas almost daily despite decades-old agreements, it is claimed.

Lawrence Carter, head of the Centre for Climate Reporting, which led the new probe, said Al Jaber has 'sought to lobby on fossil fuel deals during meetings with foreign governments about the UN climate summit.'

The leaked documents include more 150 pages of preparatory briefing notes for meetings held by Al Jaber between July and October.

Oil and gas commercial interests appear as talking points in these files, with the reporting showing on at least one occasion a country followed up on discussions brought up during a meeting with Al Jaber.

The report, produced with the BBC, describes Al Jaber planning to lobby Brazil's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva to help push through Adnoc's bid for Brazilian petrochemical firm Braskem.

Prof Michael Jacobs, a climate expert at Sheffield University, said these actions were 'breathtakingly hypocritical.'

More than 70,000 officials, campaigners, and experts are expected to attend COP28 in Dubai