(VOVWORLD) -Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the chief executive of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), has been named President of the COP 28 climate conference, which the United Arab Emirates will host later this year.
 Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the chief executive of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), is named President of the COP 28 climate conference. (Photo:AP/Kamran Jebreili) |
Jaber, the UAE's Minister of Industry and Technology and its climate envoy, will help develop the COP28 agenda and will play a central role in negotiations to build consensus, his office said in a statement.
Jaber said the UAE will bring a practical and solution-oriented approach to COP28.
As the founding CEO of the renewable energy company Masdar, in which the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company holds a 24% stake, Jaber is widely considered the right man to lead the international conference on the environment.