UAE oil exec and leader of next climate summit tells U.N., energy industry to ‘get after gigatons’ of emissions

The president-designate of this fall’s annual major global climate-change conference, Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, himself an executive in an oil industry responsible historically for the bulk of Earth-warming emissions, told global leaders “we are not powerless” when it comes to holding greenhouse gases in check.

Al Jaber on Wednesday addressed the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit in New York, where he urged the world to “get after gigatons” of emissions curbs and “to think beyond borders, beyond politics and beyond our own…

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