In what has stirred up the global greenie community, the president of the COP28 climate conference, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, has cast great doubt over zero-emissions policies being pushed by the United Nations, claiming there is “no science” to show that stage-by-stage cuts in fossil fuel use would decrease global heating, the Guardian reported on Sunday.
His comments are in response to remarks by former UN special envoy for climate change Mary Robinson on the eve of the COP28 event, when she charged the Abu Dhabi National Oil Commission Adnoc and its CEO Al Jaber with not doing enough, saying as quoted by the Guardian: “We’re in an absolute crisis that is hurting women and children more than anyone… and it’s because we have not yet committed to phasing out fossil fuel... “That is the one decision that Cop28 can take and in many ways, because you’re head of Adnoc, you could actually take it with more credibility.”
In his response, Al Jaber told Robinson, “there is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5.” He said he had expected to come to the She Changes Climate forum, to have a “sober and mature conversation” and was not “signing up to any discussion that is alarmist.” He continued to say that the 1.5-degree goal was his “north star,” and a phase-down and phase-out of fossil fuel was “inevitable” but “we need to be real, serious and pragmatic about it.”
