A global shipping boss is fighting against President Trump's climate pushback.
It's World Business Express from the BBC World Service.
I'm Leanna Byrne.
Farmers' protests in Greece are threatening the country's political stability and a casino tycoon, accused of running a scam centre, has been extradited to Beijing.
So we start in Brazil, where dozens of indigenous protesters have stormed the venue in Belém which is hosting the COP30 climate talks.
They're angry over what they say are broken promises on land rights.
They clashed with police before dispersing while the climate negotiations carried on inside.
One sector under particular scrutiny at these talks is shipping.
It's a big emitter that has struggled to agree on a global carbon levy.
I spoke to Arsenault Dominguez, Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization, who's in still pushing for that deal despite ongoing opposition from the United States and Saudi Arabia.
The decision was to actually postpone the adoption, which was the final stage before the measure can then start being implemented and work on some of the concerns that were highlighted.
And it's some of the actions that I'm taking here at COP with several parties in engaging and explaining what were those comments, how we are progressing the negotiations, because we haven't stopped.
Just because we're not meeting as a session, it doesn't mean that the work has completely stalled.
I'm sure it's really hard to keep that momentum going though, when you have the US, the largest economy in the world, and President Trump saying he wants to expand oil and gas exports.
There's plenty of countries who are on board with that as well.
I'm sure that's really difficult.
Challenges is what makes our life and jobs even more interesting.
We all agreed back in 2023 at IMO to decarbonise the sector by around 2050.
What we're also doing is looking into all the sustainable aspects for any of these developments and how they actually work in shipping.
Our role is that we will calculate the emissions of the fuels that will be used within the sector from well to wake.
So that sustainability approach would guarantee that any development will take into account those emissions as well, because our job is not to transfer the emissions.
But we will keep on our task to highlight the benefits, address the challenges in implementing all these measures and continue to work with other sectors in how they are doing their part, because shipping cannot decarbonise on its own.
I know we don't necessarily always want to speak in hypotheticals, but if that can't be agreed, is there any alternative?
We need to analyze the comments that were raised during the October session, take the necessary steps, provide additional analysis as required, because we're still committed to that decarbonization in an equitable way, as it has been requested by the membership of IMO.
I was Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization.
And that was shipping emissions, but also we got a stark warning today about global oil and gas use.
Ross Mould, Investment Director at AJ Bell.
You've been looking at this, Ross.
What do the International Energy Agencies say?
Yes, it's the annual World Energy Outlook.
And they've previously been saying if countries stuck to their pledges under the Paris Accord of 2016, they reckon that global oil demand would peak 2030 at the latest.
But they've been putting in a new scenario in the report today saying if current behaviour is maintained, then oil demand will continue to grow out to 2050 by some 13 from current levels.
And it doesn't look like people are changing their habits anytime soon.
However, there is, you know, it does say as well that renewables are going up too.
So there is a bit of good news, right?
Very much so.
And oil companies are actually in the forefront of trying to manage this transition because they've got the cash flow to help achieve that.
It's also intriguing to see OPEC Plus today in its monthly oil market report, seeing that it now thinks that global supply will match global demand in 2026, not undershoot it.
And that's actually put pressure on the oil price today.
Despite the world energy outlook from the IEA saying there may be more of the stuff bought in the next 25 years.
Some positivity.
A historic inflation figure in India.
What's going on there?
It's the lowest on record, which is about a 10-year history from the data provider.
0.25% year-on-year inflation.
Extremely low.
There are some very unusual things going on here.
Food prices have been... weak because there's been fantastic harvests, so that's a good thing.
Weaker oil and gas prices help India because it's a big importer.
And also there have been changes to the tax regime there the goods and services tax like a value-added tax.
Some of the higher bands were cut or removed.
So that's all helping the year-on-year comparison for prices.
Leaves it well below the Reserve Bank of India target range, maybe giving it a chance to cut interest rates, even if the economy is still growing really quickly at nearly 8.
Well, if it cuts interest rates, we might have to come back to you.
OK, Ross Small, thank you so much.
Chinese tycoon has been accused of running a huge scam centre in Myanmar, has been extradited to Beijing.
Xi Jinping has been in jail in Thailand for the past three years.
He built a big casino city in Myanmar, close to the Thai border.
But the Chinese say it was a scam compound operated by workers who'd been trafficked there from all over the world.
You can read more about that and watch a video report on our website at bbc.com slash news.
OK, let's end the show in Athens.
That's the sound of Greek farmers there protesting outside the agricultural ministry.
They want help with rising costs, delayed subsidies and livestock disease outbreaks.
Panagiotou Babili is a sheep breeder in Greece.
She was at the protest on Tuesday.
I feel bad because I have a child and the future is uncertain.
Livestock farming is in real danger.
We don't know what tomorrow will bring.
We don't know what will happen with the sheep box.
What will happen with the subsidies?
We are in constant danger.
But this story isn't just about farmers.
It taps into a much deeper frustration in the country.
Economist Elena Panaritis is a former Greek MP and founder of the Athens-based think tank Thought for Action.
She told me what she really thinks is behind these protests.
The major reason why they are protesting is because they've accumulated discontent for the last three years.
We had a hurricane in 2023 Daniel that pretty much destroyed one of the most important parts of the Greek production.
And then we had the plague of livestock in 2024 and another virus, sheep and goat pox 2025.
And they've been waiting and expecting the European Union subsidies.
And you know what?
The type of subsidies come from a special agency called OPQP.
These agencies did not provide the subsidies to the actual population farmers and livestock farmers.
So you have farmers who have not received the subsidy, but the neighbor has received it or somebody else they know has received it using their tax id.
So there has been a lot of claims of fraud, and that has been pretty much the last straw on the camel's back.
So what is the greek government's explanation for all of this, and has brussels reached out in any way?
Right now you see a whole Greek community.
They feel that they're getting betrayed.
Poverty is increasing.
Middle class is being squeezed.
Rents are very high.
So what is the government's response?
We're going to take the fraud investigation into parliament.
And then they said, well, we're going to start some investigative research with the parliament.
Then we're going to take it to the judiciary.
So there's a delay.
And as you know, justice delayed is justice denied.
And that is felt into the bone marrow of everyone.
Whenever I think about Greece, I think about the euro crisis many years ago now at this point.
But Greece has bounced back.
But what you're talking about, it seems like it's falling back a little bit.
You're absolutely right.
As a matter of fact, the numbers look good vis-a-vis the other Eurozone and European Union countries.
But don't forget, we lost 25% of our GDP.
So we shouldn't be only recovering 2.8% a year.
We should be recovering 20% a year to make up for the losses that we had during the 10-year crisis.
That was economist Elena Panaritos, and that's it from World Business Express.
