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Dubai’s Gold-Gilded COP28 Summit Changes Climate Talks Forever - Bloomberg

Dubai’s Gold-Gilded COP28 Summit Changes Climate Talks Forever

- Monster UAE meeting is ‘peak COP’ with over 100,000 attendees
- Lavish hospitality stokes fears of distracting negotiations

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Dubai, home of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, has applied the same logic of size and opulence to its hosting of the United Nations climate summit— an event with one key goal: to put the world back on track to keeping global warming below 1.5C.

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