Sultan al-Jaber is planning a final flourish as president of the UN COP28 summit by calling the heads of the world’s largest energy and tech companies for climate talks in Abu Dhabi days before COP29 begins in Azerbaijan.
Jaber — who is also head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) — said he will invite chief executives from Silicon Valley and Big Oil for a “Change Makers Majlis”, or special gathering, at the start of November to discuss artificial intelligence and the energy transition.
“My message to the tech sector is this: AI needs energy and energy needs AI,” said Jaber, who is also the UAE minister for industry and advanced technology. “Let’s collaborate to drive down the emissions of the conventional energy you will still need, and on ways that AI can drive energy efficiency,” he told the Financial Times.