Climate maths 'doesn't add up' without carbon capture: COP28 chief

The Emirati oil chief leading this year's UN climate talks said the world must get "serious" about new emission-capturing technology, rather than focusing only on replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy.

Sultan Al Jaber, President-designate for COP28 said "We need to get serious about carbon capture technologies. In any realistic scenario that gets us to net zero carbon capture technology will have an important role to play, without it the math just doesn't add up." "We need to phase out emissions from all sectors including transportations, agriculture, heavy industry and of course fossil fuels."

Sultan Al Jaber added that renewables such as solar and wind "cannot be the only answer", especially in the steel, cement and aluminium industries, where emissions are particularly hard to reduce.