The controversial oil executive presiding over global climate talks in Dubai is stepping up efforts to get a deal to curb all fossil fuels for the first time.
Sultan Al Jaber, president of the United Nations-backed COP28 summit, held a special meeting of ministers from nearly 200 countries, in a bid to break the deadlock over the future of oil and gas.
The issue has dominated the fortnight of talks hosted in the United Arab Emirates, after countries failed to reach an agreement at last year’s COP27 talks in Egypt. Al Jaber told reporters on Sunday that now the “time has come for us to shift gears” to deliver a timely and ambitious outcome for the summit, due to end Dec. 12.
