Al-Jabr Dishes Corporate Bullshit, NYT Dishes Both-Sides BAU Bullshit As Earth's Climate Implodes

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Over six months of preparation for the summit, known as COP28, Mr. al-Jaber said, he has consulted everyone from academicians to financiers to Indigenous leaders to fellow oil executives to understand why past summits have yielded such little progress. His conclusion was that the fossil fuel industry had little to do with it. “That was not one of the findings,” he said. Instead, he said, progress was stymied because climate advocates and fossil fuel interests vilified each other. “Why are we fighting industries? Fighting emissions should focus on reducing emissions across the board, whether it’s oil and gas, whether it’s industry, regardless of what it is.”

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The Emirates is not the only country where companies are announcing new fossil fuel projects. But while investments worldwide in solar energy, for instance, have already surpassed those in oil, the Emirates is still a major exporter of fossil fuel projects. Adnoc’s projected growth will lead to more than 2.7 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions through their production and burning, according to a 2022 report from Oil Change International. That is more than a year of combined emissions from Germany and Japan, and is second only to Qatar’s national energy company, which is building the world’s largest gas facility.

Mr. al-Jaber said that he foresees Adnoc’s fossil fuel production expanding “as long as the market demands it,” but that the effects on the globe can be blunted with new technologies that one day may allow them to minimize emissions stemming from the production of oil and gas. That argument for abatement echoes that of world’s largest fossil fuel producers, including Adnoc, which are investing huge sums of money into carbon capture.

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The stakes are high for a man, and his country, playing contradictory roles in a realignment that will transform the global economy. “We don’t want to disrupt the world,” Mr. al-Jaber said. “And yes, neither do we want business as usual.”

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Ed. These are the people "in charge"? Are you fucking kidding me?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/climate/sultan-al-jaber-uae-cop28.html

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