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Climate activists denounced the COP28 president and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Sultan al-Jaber, at a meeting that took place in Germany recently
Climate activists denounced the COP28 president and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Sultan al-Jaber, at a meeting that took place in Germany recently. This event is a precursor to the meeting of COP 28 to take place in Dubai later in the year. Kenyan climate activist, Eric Njuguna, and Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, participated in the meeting.
Speaking to the press, Kenyan climate campaigner Eric Njuguna hit out at the choice of an oil giant boss to preside over the COP28 climate summit, by mentioning a metaphor that mosquitoes should not lead a battle against malaria. The choice, he termed as a stab in the back of communities bearing the brunt of climate change.
Sultan al-Jaber, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, who leads the Dubai climate negotiations, recently acknowledged that a reduction in the use of fossil fuels was critical and inevitable. Scientists and climate activists are pleading for a more rapid expansion of renewables, and a phase-out of oil, coal, and gas, given the significant proportion of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions produced by conventional energy sources.
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Climate activists want world leaders to agree to phase out fossil fuels at the UN climate negotiations in Dubai in late 2023. They are very adamant about that after failing at their summit in Glasgow in 2021 and again in Sharm-El-Sheikh in 2022. But major oil and gas exporters are ostensibly trying to shift the date further, arguing the world can reduce carbon emissions without ditching the fossil fuels that generate them.
