The OPEC Secretary General has complained of “unscientific” attacks by climate change activists on the oil industry, calling it “perhaps the greatest threat to our industry in the future.” After a meeting of the oil extraction club and its partners in Vienna, Mohammed Barkindo said that with the increase in extreme weather events in connection with the climate crisis, “a growing mass mobilization of world opinion …
“Civil society is being misled that oil is the cause of climate change,” he said. Echoing the recent wave of school strikes inspired by the “Fridays for Future” movement by Swedish teenage girl Greta Thunberg, he said that children of some colleagues at OPEC headquarters “ask us about their future because they see their peers up see the streets campaigning ”. against this branch ”.
Barkindo added that the “mobilization” against oil “is beginning to dictate policies and corporate decisions, including investments in industry”. “We believe this industry is part of the solution to the scourge of climate change,” said Barkindo, but did not comment on what that would bring.
As part of the international Paris Agreement of 2015, the nations undertook to limit the global temperature rise to “well below” two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) and, if possible, to a safer upper limit of 1.5 ° C. Scientists say that to do this, the world must drastically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, much of which comes from burning fossil fuels for energy – including oil.
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