129. COP26: Glasgow Pact and Ready to Go Further
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday, nearly 200 countries agreed to adopt The Glasgow Climate Pact after a roller coaster of a COP26...and this is a really big deal. From agreeing to reduce global dependence on coal, to speeding up the end of fossil fuel subsidies, this is progress on paper. But how far does it go to keep our 1.5C target front and center?
This week, our hosts dig through a few key details of the agreement, including the new commitment for every country to revisit and strengthen their emissions reductions plans together at COP27, instead of in 5 years time as previously required.
So let’s take a collective breath, get a good look at this thing, and find out where we go from here.
Stick around to the end for a special “Pass The Mic” segment we are sharing, which highlights some of the voices we heard around the corridors and in the streets of Glasgow during COP26.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage an Optimism, I'm Tom Rificanak. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Cristiana Fighedis. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, we take stock of what happened in COP26, how far did it get us and what do we still |
| 0:22.8 | have to do? |
| 0:23.8 | Plus, we hear some of the voices that we encountered in the corridors in Glasgow over the last two |
| 0:28.8 | weeks. |
| 0:29.8 | So today, it is Sunday, the 14th of November, we are all home, Cristiana and I have been |
| 0:41.7 | home for a few days. |
| 0:42.7 | Paul just barely made it back to London a few hours ago, or maybe yesterday. |
| 0:47.2 | And the world is kind of... |
| 0:48.2 | After some serious dancing, I would say. |
| 0:51.9 | Your spires are all over Glasgow, Cristiana. |
| 0:55.9 | And the world is kind of trying to make sense of what just happened. |
| 0:58.5 | You know, I mean, it was a last minute dramatic moment at the gavel, we're sort of trying |
| 1:02.6 | to wrap our arms around. |
| 1:04.2 | These amazing commitments that came out of a couple of weeks and like so much in climate, |
| 1:07.8 | it seems to be transformative and remarkable and not enough. |
| 1:12.1 | So in this episode, we're going to try to unpack for you our analysis of what happened. |
| 1:19.3 | And principally, did this do what we said at the outset, it needed to do, which is to |
| 1:26.1 | keep 1.5 alive, which is a phrase, Cristiana, I know you hate, and so we can unpick that |
| 1:30.9 | too. |
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