Inside COP28: a climate summit in an oil state, a BBC exclusive and a UAE fightback

World leaders are arriving in Dubai for COP28 – the most significant annual climate summit.

The BBC’s climate editor, Justin Rowlatt, takes us behind the scenes of the summit and talks us through the expectations, and the fallout of a BBC investigation pointing out that the UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals.

The Global Story brings you trusted insights from BBC experts around the world, with Katya Adler.

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Today’s episode of The Global Story was made by Richard Moran and Emilia Jansson. The technical producers were Mike Regaard and Phil Bull. The assistant editor is Sergi Forcada Freixas and the senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.