147. IPCC Report: It's Not Too Late to Mitigate with Ko Barrett
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 6 April 2022
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Summary
The World’s scientists have come together on behalf of the web of life to deliver the most comprehensive review of how we can mitigate the effects of climate change.
So what’s in this latest IPCC report? The latest from Working Group III covers a broad spectrum of topics: from mitigation pathways and in-depth sectoral analysis to finance, international cooperation, net-zero and carbon dioxide removal… Let’s simplify that - Mitigation. This report lays out how we’re going to mitigate the effects of climate change. Because make no mistake, climate change is here and gaining speed. It’s up to us to listen to the scientists and follow their guidance to slow it down.
So, here to guide us through this new report is Ko Barrett, Vice Chair, IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and Senior Advisor for Climate, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). Ko is widely recognized as an expert on climate policy, particularly on issues related to climate impacts and strategies to help society adapt to a changing world. Not only was she one of the first women elected to serve as a vice chair of the IPCC in 2015, but she oversaw this latest report, gracefully and skillfully convening the global scientific consensus on this crucial report on Climate Change. An incredible achievement.
This report informs business leaders, policy makers, activists, influencers, artists…everybody. Listen in to hear what makes this report unique, how to avoid doomism on climate, and what it’s going to take to get to a livable future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage an Optimism. I'm Paul Dickinson and I'm here today with |
| 0:16.6 | Kristiana for a special episode focusing on the latest Working Group 3 IPCC report. |
| 0:23.5 | That's the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and we're going to be speaking with |
| 0:27.4 | co-barrot whose vice chair of the IPCC. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:45.5 | Okay, today Kristiana and I have the unique opportunity to interview a real expert on the latest |
| 0:52.2 | Working Group 3 IPCC report on climate change. We're talking to co-barrot whose vice chair |
| 0:59.7 | of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. She's widely recognised |
| 1:04.6 | in the expert on climate policy, particularly on issues related to climate impacts and |
| 1:08.7 | strategies to help society adapt her changing world. She's currently Senior Advisor for |
| 1:13.7 | Climate at NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States and |
| 1:19.4 | she was one of the first women elected to serve as a vice chair of the IPCC in 2015. For |
| 1:24.2 | over 15 years she's represented the United States on delegations charged with negotiating |
| 1:28.9 | and adopting climate science policy and outcomes. It's a great interview and we go deep on this |
| 1:34.4 | critical topic with a real expert. Hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:37.4 | Co-Thank you so much for joining us on Outrage and Optimism. Honestly, I am delightedly |
| 1:49.4 | surprised to see you sitting. I thought we would have to record you and interview you lying |
| 1:55.6 | on the floor of exhaustion. What an ordeal this has been. What an amazing, amazing ordeal. |
| 2:06.3 | To begin with, Cole, I know that there is some novelty in this report that has to do with |
| 2:13.6 | innovation and technology and demands and measures that we will get to in a minute. But first, |
| 2:20.3 | I wanted to ask you from strictly from the science point of view, from the diagnosis point of |
| 2:25.9 | view, what is new in this report and why was it even more contentious than previous reports? |
| 2:37.5 | So what was new in this report is actually kind of a continuation of the entire narrative |
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