Brazzaville, May 29, 2023: The African Petroleum Producers’ Organization, APPO, has commended the Presidency of COP-28, the United Arab Emirates, UAE, for the great efforts it is making to ensure that COP-28 provides a truly inclusive platform for all global energy stakeholders to chart a practical way forward for a successful energy transition.
APPO noted and expressed satisfaction with the efforts of the Sultan Ahmad Al-Jaber Committee for the organization of COP-28 in reaching out to various players in the global energy and environment industry to make inputs in the preparations towards COP-28. The 18 Member Country Pan-African energy Organization welcomed the presence of a team from the Secretariat of COP-28 to the meeting of the Forum of APPO NOCs held in Algiers where discussions centered on how to accelerate decarbonization and the adoption of clean energy technologies.
APPO also welcomed COP-28 organizers interactions with other global energy bodies like the World Energy Council, whose track record of shaping global energy policies in the last hundred years, has been unparalleled, attributing the inclusive drive to the commitment of the leadership of the UAE to energy transition and to the COP-28 Committee led by Sultan Al-Jaber who played a key role in shaping the UAE’s clean energy path. Dr. Sultan, an energy diplomat, who has participated in 11 Meetings of the COPs, has a 20-year career across both renewable and traditional energy. He was the founding CEO for over a decade and the current Chairman of Masdar, one of the world’s largest renewable energy companies.
In 2016, Dr Sultan Al Jaber assumed the leadership of ADNOC, with a clear mandate: to transform and decarbonize the operations of ADNOC. No wonder, ADNOC today an early mover in hydrogen, it is decarbonizing its operations using nuclear and solar power, is leading the deployment of CCUS, and is growing its investment in renewable energies.
