https://phys.org/news/2023-07-cop28-host-uae-pledges-triple.html
'The oil-rich United Arab Emirates said it would triple renewable energy
production as part of a raft of environmental initiatives announced on Monday,
months before it hosts UN climate talks.
The UAE, one of the world's biggest exporters of emissions-producing crude oil,
also unveiled national strategies on hydrogen and electric cars.
Few details were revealed about the new policies, announced five months before
the COP28 talks in Dubai where nearly 200 nations will wrestle with how to
tackle global warming and its impacts.
Ministers approved an "updated national energy strategy" that aims to "triple
the contribution of renewable energy over the next seven years", Prime Minister
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai's ruler, said after a cabinet
meeting.
Up to 200 billion dirhams ($54 billion) will be invested over the same period
to meet growing electricity demand, he said in a statement.
Another initiative "aims to consolidate the country's position as a producer
and exporter of low-emission hydrogen over the next eight years" by developing
supply chains and infrastructure, and setting up a research and development
center, Sheikh Mohammed said.
The UAE, a desert nation of about 10 million people, most of them expatriates,
will also build a national network of charging stations as part of a "national
policy for electric vehicles".
Chinese-based WeRide will receive the country's first national license for
self-driving cars, the statement added.'
Via
Future Crunch, who wrote:
It’s not clear how much of this is signalling ahead of COP28, but the fact
that an oil-rich nation is even contemplating such a move shows how
drastically the the energy transition has changed strategic priorities.
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