127. Live from COP26! Energy For People and Planet
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Coming to you LIVE from Energy Day at COP26!
So, energy and climate change. Where should we start?
With both the IEA World Energy Outlook and the IPCC AR6 Scientific assessment that came out this year declaring that coal has peaked, we also know that gas and then oil must also peak and see their way to the museums, as Christiana would say. 1.5C has been the only north star at COP26 to doing things like consigning coal to history, and every step towards decarbonizing our economy paints a clearer and clearer understanding more than ever before that we have to start now to cut emissions in one half by 2030 and restore and protect nature, at the same time.
But how does this apply to the developing world? The right to development is unquestionable, morally and also economically. But whilst those in rich and middle income countries received energy from fossil fuel sources that enabled their development, the situation that put us in is forcing us to think differently about providing clean, low carbon, and affordable energy to ensure societies that are bearing climate impacts the most harshly are also given an equal and equitable pathway to develop.
So where do we begin to provide accessible, clean, affordable energy to all? What are the challenges, what are the benefits, how will this new fund support billions of people to live better lives - and how fast can it be achieved?
Tune in to find out!
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Thank you to our Guests this week!
Rebekah Shirley
Director of Research, Data & Innovation, World Resources Institute Africa
Andrew Steer
President & CEO, Bezos Earth Fund
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Rhajiv Shah
President of the Rockefeller Foundation
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Per Heggenes
CEO of the IKEA Foundation
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| 0:00.0 | Race to zero |
| 0:02.0 | Hello everybody, it is great to be here with very excited to be having this |
| 0:29.4 | conversation with you and the first thing to say is welcome to our Asian optimism. |
| 0:32.8 | All right, my name is Tom Rivitt-Karnak and we don't have Cristiana |
| 0:39.4 | Figaro say today she's gone back to Costa Rica but we are so excited to be |
| 0:42.4 | bringing you this special conversation from COP26. Now in a minute we'll be |
| 0:46.8 | inviting the guests to the stage and Paul will do an introduction but I just |
| 0:50.6 | wanted to start with a few words of context about what we're going to talk |
| 0:53.1 | about. First you should note this is a live podcast recording we are |
| 0:56.2 | speaking to many people as well we've released tomorrow so we're really |
| 0:59.4 | grateful that you're joining us and I just wanted to give a little recap on the |
| 1:03.0 | last couple of days. I don't know about you but it's been a real rollercoaster for |
| 1:07.7 | us. When we arrived in Glasgow on Sunday with Cristiana we saw what was |
| 1:11.8 | coming out of the G20 Boris Johnson giving every indication that he was a |
| 1:16.1 | schoolboy who'd forgotten to do his homework and this was the last moment and |
| 1:19.7 | he was sort of panicked in front of the camera but since then it's been |
| 1:22.6 | really remarkable we have been so impressed at what's happened. I mean just |
| 1:26.7 | think about the last few days the commitments that have come out are now |
| 1:31.0 | taking us it looks like fully implemented there's a lot of work left to go to |
| 1:36.2 | 1.8 degrees of warming. Now if you told us that six years ago in Paris we would |
| 1:40.8 | have bitten your arm off this is an amazing step forward and of course we can |
| 1:44.6 | always say there's more to go there's more we need to do but actually we should |
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