256. We're Back! With a Cascade of Climate News
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Season 10! With the hosts together again following our break, Tom, Paul and Christiana are bursting with news and analysis.
Up for discussion this week, the hosts try to understand why the Democrats haven’t been talking much about climate change and what drives Kamala Harris’ outrage and optimism. They delve deeper into the UK’s new Labour Government’s plans around energy, nature and climate change.
Plus the hosts scan the horizon for the consequential moments in climate policy, with UNGA, Climate Week NYC and two COPs hurtling towards us.
NOTES AND RESOURCES
Outrage + Optimism, Live at Climate Week NYC
Event Title: It’s Time To Unite For Mission 2025
Event Details: Tuesday 24th September, 12:00 - 13:00 ET, Glasshouse (NYC)
Event Description: Mission 2025 is a coalition of courageous leaders - mayors, governors, CEOs, investors, athletes, musicians and citizens - who are inviting governments to ratchet upcoming national climate plans (known as Nationally Determined Contributions) in line with the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5C.
Described as ‘Defenders of Paris’, Mission 2025 Partners arrive at Climate Week New York with a major update of new organizations who are ready to embolden governments to set more ambitious plans and accelerate implementation because they know this can unlock trillions in private investment, scale cheap renewable energy, support industries to compete in a low carbon economy, and safeguard living standards equitably for our people.
As a live recorded Outrage+Optimism podcast, this flagship event will demonstrate how these plans can be upgraded by showcasing government and real economy leaders who are driving towards ‘positive tipping points’ across the three themes of energy, nature & food, and finance.
The event is supported by the Mission 2025 Partners and convened by Groundswell – a collaboration between Global Optimism, Bezos Earth Fund and Systems Change Lab – together with the Climate Group.
Registering: Please reach out to [email protected] if you are interested in joining this event
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Tom Rifik Karnak. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm still Christina Figuero. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm still Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:18.0 | When we're still here and we're back after a break. |
| 0:21.0 | It's lovely to be back and we're going to be talking about |
| 0:23.8 | everything that has been going on in the last few weeks. Thank you for joining us. Oh, Friends, it is so nice to see you. I know that podcast come around on a regular basis |
| 0:51.0 | and sometimes it feels like they come every week and we have to think of something to say but the good side is I get to see you every week and for the last few weeks that's not been the case so how have you both been? |
| 0:59.9 | Indeed indeed I've actually been missing you guys. |
| 1:03.4 | Oh, that's nice. |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah, you're so much a part of my routine. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, it's good to see you guys again. |
| 1:10.6 | Good to see you too. |
| 1:11.2 | And I don't have to think of things to say. |
| 1:12.5 | I have to think of what I'm, how I'm going to try and not say all the things I want to say, |
| 1:16.0 | Tom, so just to say that we have different ends of the same problem. |
| 1:19.0 | Oh, really, okay, I'm always trying to think about what I'm going to say. |
| 1:21.0 | You're trying to think about how to curtail what you want to bring. |
| 1:23.0 | Exactly, otherwise we have to have a longer and longer past. |
| 1:25.0 | Haven't you noticed that, Tom? |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, I have noticed. |
| 1:28.0 | Cascading, a friend of mine once called it. |
| 1:30.0 | Cascading. I always go like a big sea in front of Paul when a geek starts to cascade. |
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