The Buzz | British foreign minister discusses climate change in Gulf

Speaking from a Gulf nation whose skyscrapers rose on oil wealth, Britain’s foreign secretary called yesterday on the rest of the wealthy Arab world to put their money toward renewable and clean energy ahead of the landmark climate change conference in Paris later this year.
Philip Hammond’s comments while on a Mideast tour came as he visited the Masdar City renewable energy and sustainable technology project in Abu Dhabi. Hammond applauded the Emirates for investing in the technology, as well as its pledge to have 24 percent of its electricity come from clean energy sources by 2021.
“I suppose the romantic in me says there is something rather nicely symmetrical about the idea that the wealth that’s been generated from years of successful exploitation of fossil fuels would be reinvested … in the energy technologies of the futures,” Hammond said.