The annual U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP) is famous for being a global forum bringing together leaders, policymakers, and businesses, but it also provides a stage for the host country and the wider region to showcase their efforts in accelerating the energy transition.

At the COP28 climate conference, now taking place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), GE Vernova reached out to eight artists from countries across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and South America through a collaboration with the creative services organization Neol, asking them to use an unexpected canvas to create a “Wonders of Wind” exhibit as part of the Blue Zone, located in Expo City Dubai.
Nearly 20 years ago, an oil-and-gas financier named Matt Simmons warned that Saudi Arabia was running out of oil. His book Twilight in the Desert was a sensation in 2005, when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was producing 9.5 million barrels a day of crude oil. He was wrong: Last year the kingdom was producing 10.6 million barrels a day. So Saudi Arabia’s plan to diversify is not driven by scarcity.
“GE’s a 130-year-old company founded by Thomas Edison. And it’s changed a lot over 130 years. But we’ve always had one thing in common: using innovation and technology to lift up the quality of life for people everywhere. That’s never been more important than it is today.”
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With New York’s reputation for accelerating action to tackle the tallest challenges, it came as little surprise that this year’s Climate Week NYC summit was the most bustling in many years. Coming on the heels of unprecedented energy security threats and climate impacts, and looking ahead to the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP28, taking place in Dubai Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, the sense of urgency and action was present everywhere from hotels to the streets.