COP28 chief says fossil fuels have a role to play to meet global energy demands

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COP28 chief says fossil fuels have a role to play to meet global energy demands
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Sultan Al Jaber, who will lead COP28 talks in the UAE later this year, made a call to focus on removing the emissions from fossil fuels instead of ending their use completely.

BERLIN - Fossil fuels would continue to answer the demand for energy for the "foreseeable future", the president of the upcoming UN climate talks said Wednesday, doubling down on keeping them in the power mix.

Al Jaber, who runs an oil company and who will lead the COP28 talks in the United Arab Emirates later this year, repeated a call he made Tuesday to focus on removing the emissions from fossil fuels instead of ending their use completely. The target would be achieved by "building on and capitalising on existing and new and emerging technologies", he said, in a seeming allusion to costly and emerging technology to capture and store carbon pollution.

The choice of Al Jaber, chief executive of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company , to head the climate conference in Dubai has angered activists who fear it will hold back progress on reducing emissions.

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