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Climate summit in an oil state: can COP28 change anything
 
Getty Images This year's United Nations (UN) climate change meeting is taking place in Dubai, from 30 November to 12 December
Getty Images, this year's United Nations (UN) climate change meeting is taking place in Dubai, from 30 November to 12 December


This year's United Nations (UN) climate change meeting is taking place in Dubai, from 30 November to 12 December

You are going to be hearing a lot about COP28 over the next two weeks.

The world's most important climate meeting, beginning on Thursday, is being hosted in Dubai by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - one of the world's top ten oil producers.

COP28 will be the biggest gathering of world leaders of the year.

King Charles III and Rishi Sunak will be there, along with dozens of other world leaders and some 70,000 other attendees.

Hosting a climate conference in a petrostate was already controversial - but the BBC's evidence that the UAE team planned to use climate talks ahead of COP28 to do oil and gas deals has heightened concerns.

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