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As the COP28 climate conference gets underway, haze engulfs Dubai. Human Rights Watch has warned that the United Arab Emirates is choking under "alarmingly high" air pollution levels fed by its fossil fuel industry. Smog engulfed the city state after the climate talks began on 30 November and hit officially "unhealthy" levels over the weekend.
Our panel of journalists review the week's news making the headlines. Israel launches new strikes on Gaza after seven days of truce. Meanwhile in Dubai leaders gather for the COP28 summit. UK-Greece relations heat up following the renewed Elgin Marbles row. Finally, we look back at Henry Kissinger's legacy who died this week aged 100.
World leaders gathered for the first day of the World Climate Action Summit at the UN climate conference today.
The UN climate conference opened Thursday with nations urged to make faster cuts to planet-warming emissions and phase out fossil fuels as scepticism swirls over the oil-rich United Arab Emirates hosting the talks. The two-week-long negotiations in a vast exhibition venue in Dubai come at a pivotal moment, with emissions still climbing and the UN saying this year is likely to be the hottest in human history.
Dubai is hosting the UN COP28 summit on climate change, which aims to encourage countries to speed up their energy transitions. The fact that the event is taking place in an oil-rich emirate is the last straw for many activists, who are boycotting the event. Dubai, home to artificial islands and ski slopes in the desert, is nonetheless trying to boost its green credentials and is counting on startups to do so. Our correspondent reports.
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