據油價網7月6日報道，阿聯酋擬任第28屆聯合國氣候變化大會（COP28）主席的人表示，石油和天然氣行業需要“加快步伐”，減少排放并加速向清潔能源解決方案的轉變。

阿布扎比國家石油公司（ADNOC）的集團首席執行官、COP28主席候選人蘇丹·艾哈邁德·阿爾賈貝爾在維也納舉行的歐佩克國際研討會上表示：“化石燃料的減少是不可避免的。事實上，它是必不可少的，但是不能不負責任。”路透社報道了他的發言。

考慮到艾哈邁德·阿爾賈貝爾是阿聯酋國家石油公司（ADNOC）的首席執行官，該公司幾乎負責阿聯酋全部的石油生產，他被選為今年晚些時候在阿聯酋舉行的COP28氣候峰會的主席被認為是有爭議的選擇。

艾哈邁德·阿爾賈貝爾在歐佩克研討會上表示，石油和天然氣公司必須在2050年實現凈零排放，并應加快承諾在2030年實現凈零甲烷排放。這場研討會包括歐佩克官員和各國石油部長，以及沙特阿美、道達爾能源、埃尼集團、西方石油、哈里伯頓、維多集團、赫斯公司、巴西石油公司和奧地利石油天然氣公司等公司的首席執行官。

與2021年在格拉斯哥舉行的COP26峰會不同，COP28峰會將是包容性的，并將包括石油和天然氣行業的代表。

艾哈邁德·阿爾賈貝爾表示，關鍵挑戰是在保持可持續發展的同時減少排放，他補充道：“這就是為什么我如此關注COP28的真正包容性。”

上周，非營利組織CDP的研究顯示，自2021年以來，石油和天然氣行業在實現《巴黎協定》目標方面幾乎沒有取得任何進展。

CDP認為，審查顯示，“該行業在實現全球氣候目標方面進展緩慢，甚至一些油氣公司在限制全球變暖至1.5攝氏度方面的進展幾乎沒有，令人擔憂”。

胡耀東 譯自 油價網

原文如下：

UAE Calls On Big Oil To Speed Up Move To Cleaner Energy

The oil and gas industry needs to “step up its game” to cut emissions and accelerate the shift toward cleaner energy solutions, the UAE’s president-designate for the COP28 climate summit said on Thursday. 

“The phase down of fossil fuels is inevitable. It is in fact essential. But it cannot be irresponsible,” Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the COP 28 president-designate and Group CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), said at the ongoing OPEC International Seminar in Vienna, as carried by Reuters.

The pick of Al Jaber to head the COP28 climate summit in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) later this year was seen as a controversial choice, considering that he is chief executive at ADNOC, the company pumping nearly all the oil in the UAE, an OPEC member and major crude oil exporter.

Oil and gas companies have to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and the industry should accelerate the commitment to reach net-zero methane emissions by 2030, Al Jaber told the OPEC seminar, which includes OPEC officials and ministers, as well as the chief executives of Saudi Aramco, TotalEnergies, Eni, Oxy, Halliburton, Vitol, Hess Corporation, Petrobras, and OMV, among others.

The COP28 summit will be inclusive and will include representatives of the oil and gas industry, unlike the COP26 summit in Glasgow in 2021, which mostly shunned energy industry representatives.

The key challenge is to cut emissions while keeping robust sustainable development, Al Jaber said, adding “That is why I am so focused on COP28 being truly inclusive.”

Last week, research by the non-profit platform CDP showed that the oil and gas industry has made “almost no progress” since 2021 to align itself to the Paris Agreement goals.  

The review showed “a dangerous lack of progress towards global climate goals from the sector. There has been little advance – and alarmingly even some decline – in oil and gas companies’ progress on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees,” CDP said.