"Look at what we're going through right now. This has pushed the Unites States and Europe to try to persuade oil-rich countries like the UAE to increase energy supplies to bring prices back under control. Western sanctions aimed at crippling major energy producer Russia have resulted in sharply higher fuel costs in Europe and the United States, with inflation soaring as a result. The international community largely agrees that climate change poses an existential threat to the planet and future of mankind.īut action to cut carbon pollution and prepare for the accelerating impact is lagging, as is support for vulnerable countries confronting the ravages of a changing climate.Īdding to the pressure has been Russia's invasion of Ukraine that has sent food and energy prices spiralling. "Clean and renewable energy costs money." "You need to build your equipment from what energy you got to do that," she said. a just transition because every country is not at the same level," the minister of climate change and the environment added, stressing the UAE was using its oil and gas wealth to ramp up renewable sources.
And oil and gas will still be part of the energy mix for some time", she said in an interview Monday as UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan visited Paris for energy talks. Mariam Almheiri was interviewed in France where a fierce heatwave set record temperatures as western Europe wilted under a scorching sun and wildfires that devoured forests.Įxperts are blaming climate change and predict more frequent extreme weather to come. The world's transition to clean energy sources must be "just" and financed by the hydrocarbon trade, the climate change minister of oil-rich United Arab Emirates told AFP.
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