Manal Shehabi is visiting academic at St Antony’s College of the University of Oxford, and founding director of London-based SHEER Research & Advisory. Her work focuses on economic diversification, energy transition, sustainability and policy in resource economies, with a focus on the Middle East. She was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the ocean and cryosphere and an expert to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
While fossil fuels will remain central to many economies, targets must include plans, finance and technology to reduce energy consumption and emissions.
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