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World Business Report: First broadcast 27/12/2021 15:32 GMT : Review of the year - 2021

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First broadcast 27/12/2021 15:32 GMT 

First broadcast 27/12/2021 15:32 GMT : Review of the year - 2021

Review of the year - 2021

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Review of the year - 2021

COP26 climate pledges; delivering a billion covid vaccines; Tesla's trillion dollar value.

The big event of 2021 that will shape economies all over the world for decades to come was the COP 26 climate conference in Glasgow in November. The meeting saw a deluge of promises, but what was actually achieved? Martin Webber speaks to Tim Gould, chief energy economist at the International Energy Agency and economist Irwin Stelzer, from the Hudson Institute in the United States. 

It was another boom year for the pharmaceutical industry as it crafted the vaccines that have saved so many lives. Of the 8 billion coronavirus vaccinations worldwide, one billion have been delivered by the US logistics company, UPS. We hear from Wes Wealer, President of UPS healthcare.

And small business owners have had a bleak time for much of the past year. But many of those that have survived now feel optimistic. We hear from the owner of the Aroma speciality coffee shop in Bologna in Italy, Cristina Caroli, about her year. 

(Image: climate activists demonstrate outside of the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. Credit: Getty Images).

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