UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan held various meetings on Monday (November 7) on the sidelines of the COP27 climate conference at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt.
He met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Senegal's President Macky Sall, Bahrain's Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and other officials.
The United Arab Emirates will be a responsible supplier of oil and gas for as long as the world needs, its President said on Monday at the start of two weeks of climate talks in Egypt.
He added the Gulf nation, which is one of OPEC's most prominent producers but has also invested in renewable energy, was focused on reducing the carbon impact of its fossil fuel output.
Egypt's Conference of the Parties (COP) is the latest of decades of U.N. talks to try to curb climate change caused by the use of fossil fuels.
The UAE will host the COP28 summit in Dubai's Expo City next year. It will assess the implementation of the 2015 Paris climate agreement that seeks to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The UAE president said his country was among the first in the Gulf region to announce a plan for carbon neutrality by 2050. Last week, he signed a $100bn agreement with the United States to add 100 gigawatts of renewable energy globally by 2035.
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