The Emirati oil boss preparing to take the helm of UN climate talks said he is stunned to hear that environmentalists suspect him of duplicity on climate change.
Sultan Al Jaber, the United Arab Emirates climate envoy, minister of industry and advanced technology and CEO of the state-owned oil firm ADNOC, will lead the COP28 talks starting in Dubai in November.
"I'm someone who spent the majority of his career in sustainability, in sustainable economic development and project management, and renewable energy," he told AFP in July. Whitehouse told AFP that their open letter was sparked by Jaber's saying oil and gas interests would be "at the table".One European negotiator, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the COP president needs to help tease out consensus among the world's diverse economies -- including those with stocks of oil, gas and coal. The most ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement was to limit temperature rise to 1.
"He's very straightforward, he's open to listening," Singh told AFP, adding however that the pair "agree to disagree" on several issues. But the European negotiator who spoke on condition of anonymity said Jaber was "a little behind the curve" when it comes to negotiating the final text and "much less proactive" than the British were two years ago at COP26 in Glasgow.
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