OPEC leaders make case for fossil fuels at Riyadh climate event

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

OPEC leaders make case for fossil fuels at Riyadh climate event

Aziz El Yaakoubi and Pesha Magid
Updated Sun, October 8, 2023 at 7:02 AM EDT·2 min read

RIYADH (Reuters) -OPEC heavyweights said on Sunday oil and gas should not be stigmatised in the climate debate and that the industry had a role to play in an orderly energy transition.

Energy ministers from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq, the three largest members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), have gathered in the Saudi capital Riyadh for the U.N. MENA climate week.

"The three of us here as major hydrocarbon producers also have a responsibility to the world to provide the transition with enough hydrocarbon resources to make sure we are transitioning at a responsibly priced manner," UAE Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said on a panel that grouped the three countries.

The UAE will host the COP28 climate summit scheduled to take place in Dubai between Nov. 30 and Dec. 12.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/adaptation-must-front-centre-climate-071557222.html

Original Reuters link (paywall): https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/adaptation-must-be-front-centre-climate-agenda-uaes-cop28-president-designate-2023-10-08/

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. The case is that Dubai would be returned to a desert wasteland

Without oil production.

It going to happen eventually anyway, but in the meantime they want to build more bogus highrises and other bullshit.

[hatrack]

2. Yes, the best way to change things is to keep on doing them in the same way.

Oh, thank you, OPEC ministers! Now I see how wrong I was to have ever doubted you and your intentions!!

[DBoon]

3. Tobacco growers make the case for continued smoking

may as well be the headline

[Think. Again.]

4. Misleading headline writing...

...they didn't make 'THE' case fossil fuels, they made 'their' case for delaying the transition as long as possible.

But Reuters usually puts out thinly disguised pro-CO2 marketing articles.

[hunter]

5. They mispoke and accidentally told the truth.

The "energy transition" to clean and renewable energy is code-talk for "fossil fuels forever!"