UAE planned to use climate talks to strike oil deals

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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From the BBC World Service: Leaked documents obtained by the BBC suggest that the United Arab Emirates has been using its role as host of COP28 as an opportunity to strike oil and gas agreements. Then, Chinese officials have launched an investigation into one of the country’s biggest shadow banks. Plus, analysts say Zimbabwe has become the world’s leading blueberry exporter.

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0:24.0	The UAE plan to use climate talks to make oil deals.
0:29.0	Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report
0:32.0	from the BBC World Service.
0:34.0	I'm Luke Wilson in Fleeanna Byrne.
0:36.0	Good morning.
0:37.0	Leak documents obtained by the BBC suggest that the United Arab Emirates has been using its role as host of this year's UN climate talks
0:45.5	as an opportunity to strike oil and gas deals.
0:48.9	The COP28 summit begins in Dubai on Thursday and more than 160 world leaders are due to attend
0:55.1	although President Biden isn't expected to. Here's the BBC's Justin Rolat.
1:00.1	We've seen briefings prepared for the cop28 President Dr. Sultan Al-Jaba by the UAE's
1:06.4	COP28 team. These were for meetings with foreign governments ahead of the summit. They
1:11.7	show that for at least 27 countries the
1:15.2	team suggested raising possible business deals including oil and gas deals for
1:21.2	the UAE's giant state oil company.
1:24.4	Dr Jabber is also the CEO of that company.
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