HOUSTON - Sultan Al Jaber, the president of this year’s United Nations climate talks, on Monday said the oil and gas industry must lead the fight against climate change.
Climate activists have criticised the decision to hold COP28 in the UAE, a major oil producer, and also the choice of Al Jaber as the meeting’s president. But observers were left disappointed that little progress was made on reducing planet-heating carbon emissions from fossil fuels. In Houston, he said the oil and gas industry must “rapidly decarbonize its own operations... and has a vital role to play in decarbonising its customers.”The oil and gas industry has been accused of delaying the climate and energy transition by working to preserve the extraction and consumption of fossil fuels.