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Renewable energy is the elephant in the room at the COP 28 climate conference, where there is a lot of talk about phasing out, phasing down, and/or abating the emissions from fossil fuels. The discussions are acrimonious, with fossil fuel interests demanding the right to continue extracting oil, coal, and methane until the very last molecule is burned. Climate activists, on the other hand, want immediate action to sharply reduce the world’s dependence on those fuels.
Recently, Sultan Al Jaber, president of the COP 28 conference, oil minister of the United Arab Emirates, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, and chief executive of Masdar, the UAE’s renewable energy agency, said in an interview that phasing out fossil fuels would condemn humans to going back to living in…
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