Transcript Zero Episode 34: UAE Oil Boss Sultan Al Jaber Has a Plan for COP28
Read a transcript of the conversation between Bloomberg Green’s Aaron Rutkoff and Akshat Rathi on the appointment of an oil boss to head the global climate summit.
Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC), speaks during the 2023 CERAWeek in Houston on March 6, 2023.
Photographer: Aaron M. Sprecher/BloombergSultan Al Jaber is the president of COP28. He is also the head of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., the state-owned oil company that's the source of wealth in the United Arab Emirates. That juxtaposition has been met with criticism from green groups, but also with an embrace from those looking to reform the United Nations-backed annual climate summits.
That’s in part because Al Jaber isn’t an oil boss cut from the prototypical mold — he spent a decade as a renewables executive. This week on Zero, Bloomberg Green executive editor Aaron Rutkoff talks to senior reporter Akshat Rathi about his new in-depth profile of Al Jaber, and what it means when a kingdom built on oil controls the world’s climate progress.