175. COP27: A Little Less Conversation, A Lot More (Climate) Action

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another episode of Outrage + Optimism!

Co-hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson catch up on the whirlwind political news from the last few weeks. They cover the defeat of Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro by former president (and prisoner) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva aka “Lula,” the upcoming COP27, and the U.S. midterm elections.

First up, Brazil. The news of Lula’s presidential win is a victory for the planet. Deforestation skyrocketed under Bolsonaro but declined under Lula’s first stint as president. However, it won’t be easy to reverse Bolsanaro’s trends. Lula doesn’t have a Congressional majority, and Bolsonaro’s party just picked up a few more legislative seats. What will this mean for Brazil’s regeneration initiatives?

Next, the team discusses COP27, the upcoming UN climate conference. This year’s theme will be implementation rather than high-stakes, multi-governmental negotiation. But that has our trio wondering about what that means for the private sector? With $20 trillion in income, they’re essential to hitting net zero targets. What role will they play?

On to U.S. and U.K. politics: Republicans一with their climate denial stance一seem poised to win both legislative houses in the upcoming American midterm elections. And across the pond, the U.K. continues to flounder in its ongoing leadership crisis. How does this affect the U.S. and U.K. climate agendas, wealthy western oil companies, or climate finance commitments to developing countries?

You won’t want to miss the team’s insights!

Finally, enjoy the amazing British-Asian fusion sound of Nikhil Beats with an exclusive performance of his song 'Wisdom ft. Eclipse'.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Outragean Optimism, I'm Tom Rific Khanak.
0:15.3	I'm Cristiana Fighedas.
0:16.9	And I'm Paul Dickinson.
0:18.8	This week we have much to discuss the election in Brazil of Lula defeating Bolsonaro,
0:24.3	upcoming COP27 in Egypt, the U.S. midterms and what the hell continues to go on in the
0:29.4	UK.
0:30.4	Plus we have music from Nikhil Beats, thanks for being here.
0:46.3	So you too, it's been a few weeks since we've seen each other, it's nice to see you, sorry
0:49.8	you can't see me because I'm on the road and I don't have any zoom on, plus I'm not feeling
0:53.5	very well, I got food poisoning, so apologies to listeners if I'm slightly off-color, but
0:58.0	it's nice to see you both.
1:00.3	Great episodes, by the way, last couple of weeks, and so before we jump into this amazing
1:04.1	news from Brazil, how you doing, everything all right?
1:07.6	I'm good, Tom, I'm good, it's lovely to not see you now because your camera's turned
1:13.4	off.
1:14.4	Thank you.
1:15.4	Lovely to know that I sort of would see you or did see you earlier or we'll see you again
1:18.0	or something like that.
1:19.3	And yeah, no, absolutely great episodes, amazing Cristiana to hear your conversation with
1:24.9	Elizabeth and Abby and I found it incredibly moving and it caused me to actually want
1:30.3	to apologise to you, Tom, because I realised I was being silly because a while ago we were
1:37.3	going to record on a Sunday and I said, you said you couldn't and I said, couldn't or
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