Sheik Zayed, in his mid-80's, is the overseer of the Emirates' oil reserves, the third largest after those of Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
Iraq has an estimated 115 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, the third largest in the world behind Saudi Arabia and Iran, according to BP.
The report shows that if Australia fully exploited its untapped coal reserves – the third largest in the world behind the US and Russia – the resulting emissions would blow almost a third of the world's carbon budget for 1.5C.
Leading politicians here defended the independence of the Bundesbank but also took the opportunity to call for Italy to sell off its own gold reserves, the fourth largest in the world after the United States, Germany and the International Monetary Fund.
Many believe the 2003 American-led invasion was carried out to wrest away Iraq's enormous oil reserves, the third largest in the world after Saudi Arabia's and Iran's.
Most of Ecuador's estimated 4.7 billion barrels in crude oil reserves — the third largest in South America — lie under the northeast Amazon region, where foreign corporations have left a legacy of pollution and displacement that has been widely decried.
The nation owns the world's largest natural gas reserves, the eighth largest oil reserves and a controlling stake in Gazprom, the biggest publicly traded energy company in the world, measured by reserves.
Its oil reserves are the second largest in the world, after Saudi Arabia.
Its 14 billion barrels of proven oil reserves are the second largest in South America.
Ritter, who strongly opposed the war and produced a controversial documentary in 2001 asserting that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, also said that Chalabi spoke of benefitting financially from Iraq's oil reserves, which are the second largest in the world.
