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Business Matters: Countries present their progress on climate change pledges

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24/09/2019 GMT

Countries present their progress on climate change pledges

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Countries present their progress on climate change pledges

The UN climate summit wraps up in New York

The UN climate summit wraps up and Somini Sengupta of the New York Times reports on where countries stand with progress on climate pledges. 

Also in the programme, beverage giant AB Inbev tries again to spin off its Asian operation as a publically traded company called Budweiser Brewing Company APAC, with a price expected to be announced soon, far lower than its original attempt in June. 

China has told a hundred technology companies they will have to accept a government representative installed inside their organisation to work alongside the management. 

Following the collapse of travel company Thomas Cook, we get analysis from Patrick Edmond of the travel advisor Altair.

And after more than nine years of war in Syria, the BBC's Clare Williamson meets some of the refugees who have been resettled in the north of England, to find out about the economic challenges they face as they try and rebuild their lives.

(Picture: The Climate Action Summit 2019 in the United Nations General Assembly Hall on September 23, 2019 in New York, United States. Picture credit: Ercin Top/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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