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UN chief slams carbon capture; calls oil and gas producers ‘planet wreckers’

UN secretary-general António Guterres attacked the oil and gas industry attempts to justify fossil fuel expansion with carbon capture technology as “proposals to become more efficient planet wreckers”, in a speech that appeared to be take aim at the UAE hosts of COP28, the Financial Times reported. The industry’s stated plans to deal largely with […]

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UAE has ‘most competitive industrial sector in Arab world’: UN rankings

UAE ranked 30th globally in UNIDO index, climbing five places since 2020 and nine places in four years, helping attract interest of international investors

The UAE has the most competitive industrial sector in the Arab world, according to the latest UN global rankings. The country has reached 30th in the world in the 2021 United Nation’s Industrial Organization’s (UNIDO) Competitive Industrial Performance Index (CIP) report which tracks 152 countries. The UAE has climbed five places since 2020 and nine […]