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Besides Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment, Ambani is the only Indian who has been appointed on the Advisory Committee to the President of COP28. https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/reliance-chairman-mukesh-ambani-joins-advisory-committee-of-global-climate-change-panel-cop28-383005-2023-05-26
The COP28 UAE Advisory Committee brings together climate experts from six continents. The 31 members of the Committee, who represent policy, industry, energy, finance, civil society, youth, and humanitarian and 65 percent of whom are from the Global South, will provide guidance and counsel to the COP Presidency in the run-up to COP28 and beyond

https://planet.outlookindia.com/news/mukesh-ambani-joins-cop28-president-s-advisory-committee-news-415356 The 31 members of the Committee, 65 per cent of whom are from the Global South and represent policy, industry, energy, finance, civil society, youth, and humanitarian issues, will provide guidance and counsel to the COP Presidency in the run-up to COP28 and beyond.

https://themorningcontext.com/business/why-cop28-matters-to-mukesh-ambanis-new-energy-ambitions Mukesh Ambani's plans to turn Reliance Industries into a green energy powerhouse could get a boost if climate negotiators manage to agree on certain aspects of the energy transition. It helps that Ambani himself has found a spot on the panel. 

Right to Information (RTI) & Privacy: Congruent or Contradictory? Panel Discussion  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmOZLvR_mkI IMPRI Impact and Policy Research In

[Apar Gupta Puts the whole debate in the real context of the "state" growing frighteningly more and more authoritarian and the "individual" getting weaker and weaker.]

What has to be, in this context, kept in mind is that both "privacy" and "transparency" have two sides.
One, the right -- whether "transparency" or "privacy" -- of the "individual" vis-a-vis the "state" and vice versa.

Puttuswamy had filed his case in the context of the Aadhaar. Aadhar, it was apprehended, would make the "individual" unduly "transparent" to the "state".
This "individual" vis-a-vis the "state" aspect must be on top of our collective mind.
We've, as a rule, to strengthen the "individual" vis-a-vis the "state" -- whether in terms of the "right to know" or "the right to privacy".

That has got to be the bottom line.
Even then, if a conflict arises between the interests of a privileged individual and a commoner, then it's the latter we must bat for.

The Indian Express का विस्फोटक खुलासा_Cyprus Confidential: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgl6kp8pGVY Vinod Adani, Surendra Hiranandani, DESH NEETI

https://youtu.be/TM9vJX7d-c0

Cracking Cyprus Confidential: EU state gave investors tax haven, secrecy – and a golden passport https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/cracking-cyprus-confidential-eu-state-gave-investors-tax-haven-secrecy-and-a-golden-passport-9026642/ Cyprus Confidential: Another veil lifts on offshore money flows involving Russian oligarchs, Syrian warlords and global investors including Indian corporates.
Written by Ritu Sarin , Shyamlal Yadav

The investigation lifted the wraps on a complex maze of investments made by prominent Indian businessmen in Cyprus who cashed in on its range of benefits: from preferential — and loosely controlled — tax rates to tax exemptions on income and gains of offshore trusts; zero estate duty, no trust registration requirements and the promise of beneficial owner secrecy.

What the investigation found | Vinod Adani, Pankaj Oswal among 66 Indians who got golden passport https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/vinod-adani-pankaj-oswal-among-66-indians-who-got-golden-passport-9026977/