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The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), of the United Arab Emirates, is reluctant to stop burning fossil fuels, and for this reason, this week it announced a .permanently mineralize it (the main gas driving global warming), mix it with seawater and inject it into some underground rock formations to 2. Those responsible for the initiative indicated that the objective is to collect CO /span>2 capture carbon dioxide (CO topilot project «The place chosen to carry out the project is the emirate of Fujairah, one of the seven that make up the federation of the Arab Emirates United, due to their abundance of peridotite, a form of rock that naturally reacts with carbon dioxide," they explained in a statement.
At ADNOC we are committed to finding new ways to decarbonise our operations, while fulfilling our responsibility to supply vital energy to the world,” said Sophie Hildebrand, Chief Technology Officer at ADNOC. Operations will begin this January and the company assures that they are part of an investment of 15,000 million dollars in projects that will reduce its carbon footprint and will help them “achieve our goal of climate WhatsApp Number List neutrality by 2050.” The oil company ADNOC is the twelfth largest in the world by production volume. And from now on it is the first energy company in the region to execute a carbon capture project. The scientific community has previously warned that these types of initiatives have a high cost and do not represent a solution to curb the impacts of global warming.
United Arab Emirates, host of COP28 The name of ADNOC is not the first time it has been named recently. Its CEO isSultan Ahmed Al Jaber, also Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of United Arab Emirates. The tycoon has been designated as the next president of COP28, the climate summit to be held in Dubai on November 30 to December 12. His appointment will go down in history as the first active executive to lead climate negotiations. His choice, given his link to the fossil industry, is controversial. Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network International, was clear: «Ahmed Al Jaber cannot preside over a process charged with addressing the climate crisis with such conflict of interest, running an industry that is responsible for the crisis itself». The expert hopes that the new president will resign from his positions in the oil industry. If he doesn't, she says, "it will amount to a full-scale capture of the UN climate talks.
At ADNOC we are committed to finding new ways to decarbonise our operations, while fulfilling our responsibility to supply vital energy to the world,” said Sophie Hildebrand, Chief Technology Officer at ADNOC. Operations will begin this January and the company assures that they are part of an investment of 15,000 million dollars in projects that will reduce its carbon footprint and will help them “achieve our goal of climate WhatsApp Number List neutrality by 2050.” The oil company ADNOC is the twelfth largest in the world by production volume. And from now on it is the first energy company in the region to execute a carbon capture project. The scientific community has previously warned that these types of initiatives have a high cost and do not represent a solution to curb the impacts of global warming.
United Arab Emirates, host of COP28 The name of ADNOC is not the first time it has been named recently. Its CEO isSultan Ahmed Al Jaber, also Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of United Arab Emirates. The tycoon has been designated as the next president of COP28, the climate summit to be held in Dubai on November 30 to December 12. His appointment will go down in history as the first active executive to lead climate negotiations. His choice, given his link to the fossil industry, is controversial. Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network International, was clear: «Ahmed Al Jaber cannot preside over a process charged with addressing the climate crisis with such conflict of interest, running an industry that is responsible for the crisis itself». The expert hopes that the new president will resign from his positions in the oil industry. If he doesn't, she says, "it will amount to a full-scale capture of the UN climate talks.