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Environment

‘Who’s talking climate change now?’ energy producers say

Supporters of more hydrocarbon investment point to current high oil and gas prices as a stark reminder of global demand [File: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg]

Proponents of fossil fuel production hit back against efforts to tackle the climate crisis by urgently phasing out the burning of hydrocarbons, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine severely disrupts energy supplies.

A series of summits in the United Arab Emirates addressed the threat of climate change this week, with acknowledgements that a pivot away from fossil fuels towards cleaner sources of power is needed to keep global temperatures from rising.

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