Everything you need to know about Cop28 as the summit begins

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🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Every year the world’s leaders gather for the UN climate change conference, and after a year of record temperatures, this year’s summit has been called the most vital yet. As Cop28 begins in Dubai, Ian Sample hears from Guardian environment editor and resident Cop expert Fiona Harvey. She explains why this summit proved controversial before it even began, what the main talking points will be, and how countries can still collaborate to meet the goals set out in 2015’s Paris agreement. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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0:47.0	Leaked documents suggest the United Arab Emirates which begins hosting UN climate talks this week has used the summit as an opportunity to make oil and gas deals.
0:59.0	The allegation that hosts UAE plan to use COP28 to make fossil fuel deals is just the latest
1:06.4	eyebrow racing development in the story of these pivotal negotiations.
1:11.6	In a year in which the world has experienced record-breaking temperatures with scientists
1:16.8	warning new oil and gas extraction needs to end completely, an oil-producing state hosting a climate summit has been seen by some as a bad joke.
1:27.0	We have always balanced between economic growth with environmental responsibility and put climate action at the heart of our
1:37.3	development agenda.
1:39.7	Overseeing COP28 as president is Sultan Al-Jaba, chief executive of the state-owned
1:46.2	Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, or Adnog.
1:49.9	He denies that the UAE plan to use the talks to make new oil deals.
1:54.8	These allegations are false and it's an attempt to undermine the work of the COP28 presidency.
2:03.0	But Adnock appears to have the biggest net zero busting expansion plans of any company in the world.
2:10.0	A fact which has led some scientists to label our
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