Dr Sultan Al Jaber, the United Arab Emirates oil chief executive and leader of COP28 climate talks, has a formidable reputation for earnestly pursuing results.
Sultan Al Jaber
Dr Sultan Al Jaber, the United Arab Emirates oil chief executive and leader of COP28 climate talks, has a formidable reputation for earnestly pursuing results.
His position as leader of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, the state energy giant known by its abbreviation Adnoc, has alarmed environmental critics concerned over his commitment to maintaining a role for fossil fuels in the energy transition, but his supporters say he has an ability to get things done and straddle divides that will deliver climate action.
When marathon deliberations in Egypt’s picturesque city of Aswan in October struggled to reach an agreement on a fund to help countries recover from damage caused by climate change, Dr Jaber leapt in.
In a virtual intervention, he told the 24-member UN committee debating the fund that billions of lives depended on getting a deal.“You could say that he used the notion of the hard deadline to help bang heads,” Professor Avinash Persaud, negotiator for Barbados, who was a member of the technical committee and present at the meeting, told Reuter
Tech giant Microsoft announced on Monday a massive $15.2 billion investment plan in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), primarily focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud infrastructure, reinforcing the Gulf nation's ambitions to become a regional AI hub.
The Kuwaiti government has officially banned the purchase of gold and jewelry with cash, in a move aimed at strengthening financial transparency and combating illicit activities.
PureHealth Holding PJSC, the largest healthcare group in the Middle East, reported solid financial results for the nine months ending 30 September 2025, with AED20.1 billion in revenue, up 6% year-on-year. EBITDA rose 11% to AED3.5 billion, while net profit increased 8% to AED1.55 billion.
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