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It is seen as a crucial opportunity for governments to accelerate action to limit global warming with reports so far showing countries are off track to meet promises to limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“What we have done today is something quite unprecedented in the COP process, to bring together both the demand and supply side in terms of听别尘颈蝉蝉颈辞苍s,” Adnan Amin,聽颁翱笔28听chief executive officer, told Reuters.
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The gathering brought together CEOs from more than 50 companies from the听辞颈濒听and gas sector – the supply side – and the aluminum, steel and cement industries – the energy demand side.
The meeting, convened by聽颁翱笔28听president Sultan al-Jaber, was attended by U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry and tackled issues such as commercializing hydrogen, scaling up carbon capture technologies, methane elimination and increasing renewable energy, a statement by聽颁翱笔28听said.
The United Arab Emirates’ president of the conference, Jaber, has said the听辞颈濒听and gas聽颈苍诲耻蝉迟谤测听needs to be part of the conversation on climate change. He has urged the energy聽颈苍诲耻蝉迟谤测听to achieve net-zero听别尘颈蝉蝉颈辞苍s by or before 2050 and to accelerate an听颈苍诲耻蝉迟谤测-wide commitment to reach near-zero methane听别尘颈蝉蝉颈辞苍s by 2030.
The inclusion of听辞颈濒听and gas representatives is a far cry from the 2021 U.N. climate change summit in Scotland, where energy companies complained they were shut out of the event.
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“If the听辞颈濒听and gas聽颈苍诲耻蝉迟谤测听signs up to decarbonization agreements and methane abatement that is a huge contribution to the debate,” Amin said.
“It will be the first COP that we can measure the carbon that we are taking off the table.”
Jaber, who is also head of UAE state听辞颈濒听giant ADNOC, was a controversial pick to lead the climate summit because his country is an OPEC member and a major听辞颈濒听exporter. – Reuters
