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Nov 2022
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Middle East promotes compatibility of en...

S&P Global Commodity Insights
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Gulf countries attending the ADIPEC conference in October made it clear that oil and gas will be needed for decades to come, and the region has the least carbon-intensive barrels to fuel a global economy seeking to lower its emissions. How does this play against the United Nations' assertion that new hydrocarbon investments are incompatible with credible net-zero targets?

S&P Global Commodity Insights news editors Dania El Saadi and Henry Edwardes-Evans compare notes.

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