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People have been talking about reducing carbon output for a while and not doing it because the economics weren't there. Now, it's starting to happen because it's profitable. Solar and wind have become cheap.
It needed to happen sooner and could have been done better. But, idiots platforming idiots isn't really going to change this one way or another. I feel like these climate talks are primarily theatre. Probably always were. But in this case, that makes me hopeful. Why would we listen to a Saudi oil exec when we didn't listen much to scientists explaining the impacts for decades? The money talks and it's beginning to tell a slightly less hopeless story.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/about-40-percent-of-the-worlds-power-generation-is-now-renewable
Today, I choose guarded optimism.