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Saudi Arabia emboldened at COP27 as energy demand ‘exposes hypocrisies’

Ukraine war leaves EU rushing to replace Russian fossil fuels while Washington and Riyadh clash over oil output targets

Saudi Arabia has arrived at the COP27 climate summit emboldened by the renewed demand for fossil fuels from sources other than Russia after Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking at the end of the first week of the climate summit in Egypt, Saudi’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, said the Ukraine war had “exposed the hypocrisies that have been around for a long time and that we have talked about for years”. 

“People argue that we should reduce oil production. And then . . . you have a crisis and people are demanding that we increase oil production. It doesn't work both ways,” said al-Jubeir in an interview.

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