President-Designate Dr Sultan Al Jaber has called on governments, industry and all stakeholders to “disrupt business as usual” and take decisive action to tackle the climate crisis. He outlined an action plan focused on fast-tracking the energy transition, fixing climate finance, focusing on adaptation to protect lives and livelihoods and underpinning everything with full inclusivity. The climate crisis action plan triples renewable energy capacity, doubles energy efficiency and doubles hydrogen production to 180 million tons per year by 2030. “We need to bridge divides that are blocking critical breakthroughs,” said Al Jaber as he outlined his plan of action for this year’s UN climate conference in the UAE. Al Jaber also called on national oil companies (NOCs) and international oil companies (IOCs) to zero out methane emissions by 2030.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 15, 2023 03:01 UTC