163. Boris and Net Zero: What Happens Next?
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another episode of Outrage + Optimism.
As always, we examine issues at the forefront of the climate crisis, interview change-makers, and transform our anger into productive dialogue on building a sustainable future.
In this episode, co-hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson reflect on the recent downfall of British Prime Minister (PM) Boris Johnson and what comes next for U.K. climate initiatives, with guests Ben Goldsmith, Founder of the Conservative Environment Network, and Chris Skidmore, MP for Kingswood, near Bristol.
Despite Johnson’s decidedly mixed term as PM一including delivering on Brexit, recent Partygate blunders, and other scandals一he has kept the U.K. focused on climate and nature progress. He’s embraced Net zero by 2050, introduced ambitious goals for 2035, and supported the Conference of the Parties summit (COP26). But what do the hosts think?
And, where does the U.K. go from here? With the interests of the global right generally focused on issues such as immigration, and new Tory leadership on the horizon, will climate and nature continue to be relevant to the U.K. conservative project? Guests Ben Goldsmith and Chris Skidmore weigh in on this dynamic moment.
NOTES AND RESOURCES
For more on conservative environmentalism in the U.K. and overseas visit the Conservative Environment Network.
Learn more about the United Nation’s Net zero initiative and the COP26.
Read Chris Skidmore’s recent piece with Zac Goldsmith, ‘Ditching Net Zero would be electoral suicide for Conservatives’.
“Hustings” is defined as a meeting at which candidates in an election address potential voters.
To learn more about the climate emergency and how you can translate outrage into action, subscribe to the podcast here.
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| 0:00.6 | High listeners, it's Tom here. Just letting you know that what you are listening to right now |
| 0:04.6 | is one of two episodes of outrage and optimism that will be dropping into your podcast feed in |
| 0:09.7 | the next couple of days. This one covers the implications of the downfall of Boris Johnson as |
| 0:14.8 | Prime Minister in the UK with some really insightful conversations that cover what's going to happen |
| 0:19.4 | next, what we need to be concerned about and what opportunities there are for progress. |
| 0:23.9 | The other episode, which will be with you in a couple of days, will look at the decision |
| 0:28.1 | at the Supreme Court in the US to limit the ability of the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. |
| 0:34.5 | And there we will talk to former presidential councillor John Podesta and to former administrator |
| 0:40.2 | of the EPA, Lisa Jackson. So enjoy this episode today and look out for that one which will be with you |
| 0:45.2 | very soon and we'll be back as a regular podcast next week. Thanks, here's the episode. |
| 0:58.1 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Tom Rific Karnak. |
| 1:09.3 | You can do it. You can put your back into it. |
| 1:12.3 | Cut, cut, cut. Sorry, um, right. Go ahead Tom, sorry again. |
| 1:18.9 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Tom Rific Karnak. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm Cristiana Viet. And she's Cristiana Fagaris and I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 1:27.6 | No one knows why Cristiana's laughing so much today but it's good to see. |
| 1:31.2 | Today, we reflect on the downfall of Boris Johnson and ask what the implications will be for |
| 1:36.1 | climate and nature leadership. We speak to Ben Goldsmith, founder of the Conservative Environmental |
| 1:41.2 | Network and Board Member at the UK Environment Department and to Chris Skidmore, |
| 1:46.0 | Member of Parliament, former Energy Minister and Chair of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group |
| 1:51.3 | on the Environment. Thanks for being here. Thanks for being here. |
| 1:57.3 | Clay, can you do something like that? No, I don't think so. |
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