123. Ramping Up for COP26! with Matthew Phillips
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
If you haven’t heard, COP26 is about to happen.
This week we embrace the complexity that is a COP (Conference of the Parties), and try to frame what is going to happen in the next 2 weeks so we don’t lose focus on limiting global heating to 1.5C.
We’re joined by Communications Director of COP25 & COP26 Climate Champions, Matthew Phillips. Matthew is inextricably linked with the process of COP26 and shares his wisdom and unique insight into what a successful COP26 looks like.
So if you’re thinking about the logistical nightmares of COP26, what the Heads of State might say, how NDCs are going, or how inequities are being addressed at the COP this year, this conversation is for you.
Stay til the end for a beautiful soundscape of children’s voices from Positive Imaginings.
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| 0:00.0 | Race 2-0! |
| 0:25.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrageant Optimism, I'm Tom Riviccarnick. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Cristiana Piedes. |
| 0:30.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:32.0 | And I'm Matthew Phillips. |
| 0:34.0 | Alright, so this week it's all about Glasgow. |
| 0:37.0 | Who is Matthew Phillips? |
| 0:40.0 | Who is Matthew Phillips? |
| 0:42.0 | You're going to find out it's all about Glasgow, thanks for being here. |
| 0:46.0 | Okay friends, this is it. |
| 0:48.0 | This is our last episode before the world meets in just a few days. |
| 0:50.0 | Glasgow, we're all on our way. |
| 0:52.0 | This is going to be a very consequential moment for the world and for the future of it. |
| 0:55.0 | It is the three of us here as hosts and we have a very special guest for you. |
| 0:58.0 | Matthew Phillips. |
| 1:00.0 | You may not know who Matthew Phillips is, but he has been right at the heart of many of the most consequential things that have happened on climate. |
| 1:06.0 | Over the last few years, when we were in Glasgow, we were all on our way. |
| 1:08.0 | This is going to be a very consequential moment for the world and for the future of it. |
| 1:11.0 | It is the three of us here as hosts and we have a very special guest for you. |
| 1:15.0 | Over the last few years, when Cristiano Figueroz asked me in 2013 to put together a ninja team of people who could help us get to the Paris Agreement, |
| 1:22.0 | Matthew is at the heart of that. |
| 1:24.0 | And since then, right now he is also at the heart of Nigel Topping's team as part of the race is here in the climate champion. |
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