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Today in Focus

The secret plan to ‘hook’ the developing world on oil

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As the Cop28 climate summit begins in Dubai today, a secret Saudi Arabian plan to get poorer countries ‘hooked on its harmful products’ has emerged. Damian Carrington reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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This is the Guardian.

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Today, the leak documents an undercover sting operation, casting doubt on where the Gulf states can be trusted to fight the climate crisis. Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground. Sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination not a care in the world as you simply

0:37.8

lean back and before you know it you're. This is how travel should feel and on our trains it does.

0:47.0

A Vanti West Coast feel good travel. The UN's annual climate meeting called the Conference of the Parties or Copp gets underway today in the United Arab Emirates.

1:12.0

And you might think the UAE is one of the world's biggest oil and gas producers.

1:17.0

It's next door to Saudi Arabia, home to the world's biggest oil company.

1:20.0

This is a weird place to have a global climate summit.

1:24.0

But these two Gulf states say they've changed.

1:28.0

The climate crisis, they get it, and they have the ads to prove it.

1:32.0

To many, it is a dream. and they have the ads to prove it.

1:33.0

To many, it is a dream that seems impossible.

1:36.0

A desert-covered nation seeking to lead the world in green transition

1:41.0

has embarked on one of the most ambitious endeavors in the history of mankind.

1:45.0

You know the ads.

1:48.0

The stirring music, the gentle soothing voice, a camera panning across a desert, or maybe it's a forest.

1:55.8

Smiling farmers, serious looking scientists, children at school or playing football,

2:01.6

so inspiring.

2:04.0

The Saudi Green Initiative.

2:07.0

From ambition to action.

2:11.0

But beneath this smooth surface, investigative reporters, including Damien Carrington, the

2:16.9

Guardian's environment editor, have been digging into the reality of Saudi Arabia and

2:21.6

the UAE's commitment to fighting global heating.

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