COP28 in Dubai, Russia Crackdown on Journalists, China Illness Spike, and More

The World Next Week

Council on Foreign Relations

Politics, News, News:politics

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🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The United Arab Emirates, a major oil and gas producer, hosts the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), where hundreds of world leaders meet to discuss limiting global warming and helping states that are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change; Russia arbitrarily detains a journalist with U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; and the World Health Organization asks China for information on a spike in respiratory illness. Mentioned on the Podcast “CPJ and Partners Call on Blinken to Designate RFE/RL’s Alsu Kurmasheva ‘Wrongfully Detained’ by Russia,” Committee to Protect Journalists Justin Rowlatt, “UAE Planned to Use COP28 Climate Talks to Make Oil Deals,” BBC Recommended Reading RFE/RL’s Idel.Realities, “Russian Rights Group Memorial Recognizes RFE/RL’s Kurmasheva As Political Prisoner,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Robert McMahon, “Russia Is Censoring News on the War in Ukraine. Foreign Media Are Trying to Get Around That,” CFR.org For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/cop28-dubai-russia-crackdown-journalists-china-illness-spike-and-more

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0:00.0	In the coming week, the COP28 climate summit gets underway in the UAE, and the latest
0:08.1	Russian detention of a U.S. journalist raises concern.
0:11.5	It's November 30, 2003 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.
0:28.2	And I'm Carly Ann Robbins.
0:30.3	So, Bob, let's begin in Dubai.
0:32.4	Today is the start of COP28, the annual UN climate change summit.
0:36.9	There are going to be some 60,000 participants,
0:39.3	including scores of world leaders attending. And this year, one of the main outcomes is a so-called
0:44.5	global stock take, and this is the first formal assessment of progress or lack of progress
0:50.2	the world has made toward mitigating global warming since the Paris Agreement was first negotiated in 2015.
0:56.0	There's a lot of concern that we're falling further and further behind the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal.
1:02.0	And there's also concern about this year's host.
1:04.0	The UAE is a major oil and gas producer, and the BBC reported earlier this week that they had seen some briefing documents that showed that the UAE was cynically planning to use the conference to discuss fossil fuel deals with more than a dozen nations.
1:18.8	So was this really disturbing as it sounds, or are they going to make some progress?
1:24.3	So the atmospherics around the COP 28 this year are not the greatest, Carla,
1:29.8	been raised in many, many places, and the ironies abound. But we should still look at this as an
1:36.5	important gathering that could still hold some indicators about the trajectory of climate
1:41.1	policies. And it's a vast array of policies. It starts with, though,
1:46.0	this ability to limit slow, zero out, eventually emissions, and having an official in a country
1:53.4	which has larger oil and gas deposits than Russia hosting does not seem to bode well.
1:59.3	The report you mentioned has gotten a lot of attention about
2:01.8	the documents indicating there was going to be a lot of dealmaking going on. It was denied by the
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