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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Matthew Taylor

Capturing Cop28 chief’s oil firm emissions would take centuries – study

Al Jaber will use Cop28 to promote technical solutions instead of pushing for rapid reductions in emissions.
Campaigners are concerned Al Jaber will use Cop28 to promote technical solutions instead of pushing for rapid reductions in emissions. Photograph: Ryan Lim/AFP/Getty Images

Climate-wrecking emissions produced by the oil company of the Cop28 president, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, would take hundreds of years to remove using the carbon capture technology he has been promoting.

With just weeks to go until the crucial Cop28 climate summit, Al Jaber, who is the boss of United Arab Emirate oil company Adnoc, has been backing carbon capture as one solution to the climate crisis.

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