Like any country hosting a COP climate summit the United Arab Emirates is facing intense scrutiny of its own track record.
The oil-rich country hosting the next UN climate summit, which this year said it was"running towards" a clean power future, missed its own green energy target, Sky News can reveal.
COP26 host the UK has also missed climate targets. But the UK"has been historically a climate leader, it has delivered huge emissions reductions," he said. That's much less than the 41% in the UK, 20% in Poland, Europe's most coal dependent economy, 24% in fellow developing country Mexico and 16% in Ukraine - though more than the 0.2% in similarly fossil fuel-rich Saudi Arabia and the middle east regional average of 2%.
And although renewables only reached 4.5% in 2022, that followed a growth spurt of nearly 500% in five years, with more in the pipeline. “This is the same question you're going to find in any other country in the world, particularly in developing countries that have lots of solar resources. The way electricity is produced in the UAE is “very largely in co-production with water,” said Simon Harrison from Mott MacDonald.
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