Saudi should 'review' emissions targets: French minister
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia should review its goals for lowering carbon emissions and consider adopting targets to be met as soon as 2030, France’s Energy Transition Minister told AFP in the kingdom.
Emissions reduction targets can be more credible “when we give ourselves objectives in a short period – 2030-2035 – and therefore do not postpone the subject to 2050”, Ms Pannier-Runacher said in an interview late on Saturday.The French minister’s trip came as the United Arab Emirates prepares to host theThe climate talks represent a “time to take stock of our respective trajectories”, she added.
Officials in Saudi Arabia – the world’s biggest oil exporter – which is trying to diversify its economy, continue to call for more investment in fossil fuel production. Climate activists and some Western legislators have already criticised the COP28 talks, especially after Dr Sultan Al Jaber, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, was tapped to lead them.Dr Al Jaber has called for rapid development of renewable energy and acknowledged that “the phase-down of fossil fuels is inevitable”.
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