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Al Gore Says Fossil Fuel Industry Seek to ‘Capture’ Climate Talks [1]
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Date: 2023-09-21
Fossil fuel interests are trying to co-opt the battle against climate change, Al Gore warned on Thursday, noting that the United Nations had appointed a top oil executive, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, to lead this year’s global climate talks.
“That’s just, like, taking the disguise off,” Mr. Gore said at The New York Times’s Climate Forward event in Manhattan. “They’ve been trying to capture this process for a long time.”
Mr. Al-Jabar runs the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, which provides about 3 percent of the world’s oil. The Times has reported that the U.A.E. wants to be seen as a climate-friendly renewable energy superpower, even as it helps lock developing nations around the world into fossil fuel use for decades.
Mr. Gore, a former U.S. vice president who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his climate activism, said that the fossil fuel industry was “far more effective as capturing politicians than they are at capturing emissions.”
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