COP28: Inside the United Arab Emirates
Oil giant hosts climate change summit
Despite decades of policies aimed at diversifying the country's economy away from oil, the UAE's hydrocarbon sector makes up a quarter of GDP, half of the country's exports and 80% of government revenues. Emilie Rutledge, senior lecturer in economics at The Open University, and Aiora Zabala, lecturer in economics and the environment at the same institution, take a closer look at the bloc.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), the world’s seventh largest oil producer, is hosting the 28th UN climate change summit (COP28) in Dubai until 12 December. Presiding over the conf...
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