ABU DHABI: The Emirati oil chief leading this year's UN climate talks said on Wednesday (May 10) the world must get 'serious' about new emission-capturing technology, rather than focussing only on replacing fossil fuels with
Sultan Al Jaber said renewables such as solar and wind"cannot be the only answer", especially in the steel, cement and aluminium industries, where emissions are particularly hard to reduce.
"If we are serious about curbing industrial emissions, we need to get serious about carbon capture technologies," he told the United Arab Emirates' Climate Tech event in Abu Dhabi. Earlier this year, the UN's climate expert panel said the world risks crossing the key 1.5-degree Celsius global warming threshold in about a decade, urging aOne of the fastest transformations will need to be in energy, the report said, with solar and wind power already expanding dramatically.
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