COP26: Of Carbon, Chess and King Cnut
Summary: Riyadh played a skilled hand at COP26 but may well discover very soon that the real threat to its petro-economy lies largely outside international forums.
Summary: Riyadh played a skilled hand at COP26 but may well discover very soon that the real threat to its petro-economy lies largely outside international forums.
Summary: the EU needs to move rapidly to achieve net zero by 2050 while the GCC needs to break its addiction to oil while facing its own severe climate challenges; green hydrogen promises a way forward for both.
Summary: Gulf oil producers, Kuwait excepted, have made big promises on the climate front ahead of Cop26 but doubt persists as to how far they are prepared to go to realise the promises.