Ahmed al-Jaber during COP28. Photo: AP
Oil CEO and Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber has said there is “no science” behind calls to phase out fossil fuels to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees, UK reveals The Guardian and the Center for Climate Reporting.
He has also said that a phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take the world “back to the cave stage”.
The statement is “incredibly worrying” and on the “borderline of climate denial”, say the researchers.
Al-Jaber made the statement after receiving several questions from Mary Robinson, CEO of the Elders group (founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007) and former UN envoy for climate change, during a live online event on November 21.
Al-Jaber is meeting chairman during the climate conference COP28 in Dubai. He is also the CEO of the oil company Adnoc in the United Arab Emirates.
More than a hundred countries at COP28 support a phase-out of fossil fuels.
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During a demonstration on Sunday during COP28 in Dubai, the protesters “revived” the earth. Photo: Peter Dejong / AP
Doctors, activists and representatives of several countries at this year’s COP28 in Dubai want to see greater global efforts to protect the world’s population from the increasing health and safety risks of climate change.
With global temperature increases set to continue rising for decades, countries will need to increase funding for health care as extreme heat becomes increasingly dangerous and diseases such as malaria and cholera spread, writes Reuters.
Climate-related impacts “have become one of the greatest threats to human health this century,” climate conference leader Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber said in a statement.
Late Saturday night, 123 of the nearly 200 countries at COP28 signed a declaration affirming their responsibility to keep their people safe. However, it did not mention fossil fuels, the main source of emissions that lead to climate change.
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Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on site at COP28 in Dubai. Photo: AP
Nuclear power has been given a prominent role at the COP28 climate meeting in Dubai. This is the opinion of Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M), who is present.
Sweden has been involved in drawing up a declaration on increased nuclear power with a number of other countries.
– We will triple global nuclear power by 2050. For Sweden, this means that we must invest heavily in nuclear power once more. We were leaders once and we will be leaders again, Kristersson said at a press conference.
Lukas Jacobson
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KlimaSeniorinnen’s chairman Anne Mahrer. Photo: Jean-Francois Badias
Pensioners’ group KlimaSeniorinnen is suing the Swiss state before the European Court of Human Rights, reports Swedens radio.
The group, consisting of over 2,300 women, believes that Switzerland has a deficient climate policy that constitutes a violation of their human rights.
“Switzerland, along with most other countries in the world, is not doing enough to avoid climate disasters,” KlimaSeniorinnen writes on its website.
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The climate negotiations at the COP meetings have so far not included the role of the coast as a carbon sink or methane emitter, write Christoph Humborg, Alf Norkko and Gustaf Hugelius at Aftonbladet Debatt. Photo: GETTY
The ocean has great significance for how the climate develops. During the upcoming climate summit, it is time to raise this hitherto underutilized resource, write three researchers at Aftonbladet Debatt.
By reducing eutrophication and protecting important ecosystems, emissions of greenhouse gases from the coasts can be reduced and the function of the ocean as a carbon sink can be strengthened.
Read the researchers’ debate article here.
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I wonder if you can provide some facts about the water level rise. I doubt that is correct as it will take several hundred years before it is really felt. It is not erosion or that sand has been mined in the area. I’m not a climate change skeptic, because the climate has always changed, but good if we can get some facts. The country rises most in Sweden, and we know that, so we are on the safe side.
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Hello! According to the geologists I spoke to, there is no longer any land uplift in the southern and central regions of Sweden. The Authority for Community Protection and Preparedness has made technical calculations for what the rise in sea levels could mean for coastal cities in the future. You can find it here.
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The Skåne coast is identified as a national risk area for flooding and erosion – Löderup’s beach is particularly vulnerable.
– Climate change means that we have to abandon the view of what the coasts look like today, says Per Danielsson at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute.
Kristianstad is Sweden’s lowest situated city.
New and higher dikes are now being built.
– We are doing this to protect the city against high tides and future sea level rises, says Karl Erik Svensson, project manager for the dike construction.