Opinion | Can humanity count on OPEC to phase out fossil fuels?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : National oil companies account for about half the world's production of oil and gas and close to 60 percent of reserves.
53% : While the fossil fuel industry is gradually trimming investments, it is largely planning to phase "down" the use of oil and gas, not to phase it "out.
52% : "Haitham Al Ghais, the OPEC secretary general, who hails from Kuwait (on the other end of the Persian Gulf from the UAE), griped that the IEA lectures about what oil producers should do were "undiplomatic to say the least.
49% : Brazil is champing at the bit to pump oil from near the mouth of the Amazon River, even as it pledges to cut emissions.
41% : Barring action on the demand side, efforts to stop the supply of undesirable commodities usually fail.

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