The Saudi delegation has flatly opposed any language in a deal that would even mention fossil fuels — the oil, gas and coal that, when burned, create emissions that are dangerously heating the planet. Saudi negotiators have also objected to a provision, endorsed by at least 118 countries, aimed at tripling global renewable energy capacity by 2030.
Monarchies are way easier to control than democracies, so this isn’t surprising.
You can see that with Russia, it took them an ungodly amount of money and decades of propaganda to take over the Western democracies.