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	Podcast:		Business Matters
	Episode:		President Biden calls for unity in United Nations address
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:52:28
	Publish Date:		2021-09-22 01:27:00
	Description:		At the 76th General Assembly in New York, President Biden urged global cooperation to tackle the pandemic and climate change. He pledged to double US climate finance for developing countries by 2024, while China says it will stop financing coal plants abroad. But are these gestures, or real steps towards climate change? We ask Michael McFaul, professor of political science at Stanford University. There's been widespread fallout across Europe from rapidly rising energy prices. The BBC's Ed Butler considers the consequences for business and the food industry, and examines Russia's role in the whole affair. The US sports betting company DraftKings has made an offer reportedly worth $20 billion for the UK-based betting group Entain. We examine the significance of the offer with Alice Hancock, leisure industries reporter with the Financial Times. Jamie Robertson is joined throughout the programme by Jyoti Malhotra, senior consulting editor at The Print website in Delhi, and by Sarah Birke, the Economist’s bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, who's in Mexico City. (Picture: Joe Biden addresses the UN. Credit: Getty)
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