Including energy leaders made COP28 climate summit more meaningful, says Jaber

COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber said on Monday that bringing the energy sector to the table at the U.N. climate summit that was hosted by Dubai in December made the action agenda more meaningful.

“History will remember that this was the first COP that agreed to transition away from fossil fuels,” Jaber said at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

Representatives from nearly 200 countries had agreed at the COP28 climate summit to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change.

Jaber said that in order for the UAE consensus agreement to get traction, serious action was needed.

“We need to show that an unprecedented agreement can be turned into unprecedented action. We are what we do, not what we say.”

Climate activists had criticised the summit being held in the United Arab Emirates, a leading oil exporter and member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

via Reuters