Scores of major companies have flocked to Expo City on the outskirts of Dubai for the world’s biggest UN climate summit, to rub shoulders with some of the near-200 governments and tout their business.
The attendance of prominent bank and energy bosses has risen, including the first-time visit by ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods, but the leaders of a host of other enterprises are also present for the first time after the COP28 agenda was expanded for health, food, water and nature.
Speaking from Dubai, Reckitt chief executive Kris Licht said he was “delighted” that health had finally been given a formal place on the agenda. Reckitt came to prominence at COP26 in Glasgow, where it supplied its Dettol disinfectant to the organisers in the middle of the pandemic.