SYDNEY: Gulf oil states are using their vast wealth to build influence across the far-flung South Pacific, experts have told Agence France-Presse, tearing a page straight out of China's Belt and Road playbook.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — two of the world's biggest crude oil producers — have been ramping up efforts to shed their reputations as global climate laggards.Both have been lavishing money and attention on small, isolated and often indebted Pacific nations, where rising sea levels are already creeping up on low-lying coastal communities.
Both have made headline-grabbing commitments to renewable energy, and the UAE pulled off a major coup when it secured the rights to host the COP28 climate conference in Dubai later this year. 'It reflects the new ambitions of these Gulf states, which were traditionally passive actors in international relations,' said Jean-Loup Samaan from the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore.
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