273. COP29 Live: Bigger, Better, Bolder. Updating NDCs in Line with 1.5C
Outrage + Optimism
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🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live from COP29 in the UK Pavilion in Baku, Bigger, Better, Bolder: Updating NDCs in Line with 1.5 Degrees captures an energetic dialogue on the crucial role of bold leadership in climate action. Moderated by Tom, this dynamic session dives into why governments must ambitiously update their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to meet the 1.5°C goal, recognizing this decade as a pivotal chance to shape a sustainable future.
Kicking off with insights from Ed Miliband, the UK’s Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, we explore how the UK’s ambitious NDC exemplifies targets aligned with scientific guidelines, the public’s mandate, and the need for investment-ready, collaborative action.
Tom also welcomes Emma Pinchbeck, CEO, Climate Change Committee and Russell Read, Lead Delegate, We Are Family Foundation to unpack how real-economy and societal stakeholders can drive meaningful NDC implementation. He talks to Nigel Topping, non-executive Director of the National Wealth Fund and Diana Layfield, Chair of British International Investment about the critical role business plays in inspiring investment and innovation both domestically and internationally.
The session concludes as Ana Toni, Brazil’s National Secretary for Climate Change, joins Ed Miliband in a live Q&A, discussing how partnerships between major powers, such as Brazil and the UK, can accelerate global climate progress before the mid-decade tipping point.
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GUESTS
The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Emma Pinchbeck, CEO of Climate Change Committee
Russell Reed, lead delegate for the We Are Family Foundation
Nigel Topping, Non-exec director of National Wealth Fund and COP26 Climate Champion
Diana Layfield, Chair of British International Investment
HE Ana Toni, National Secretary for Climate Change at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, from Brazil as COP30 Presidency
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. So I'm out on the street in the old town in Baku. It's the end of the third day of Kopp. It's been a long day, so I'm making my way back to the hotel pretty late in the day. But it's been an interesting third day. |
| 0:21.2 | We have really gotten down to some of the fundamental work. |
| 0:24.2 | And the conversation we want to bring you today |
| 0:26.0 | is a little different to the one we had yesterday. |
| 0:28.5 | As we explained in the discussion I had with Mia Motley and David Lammy, |
| 0:32.8 | one of the fundamental things that is going to have to be discussed |
| 0:36.3 | and resolved here is around finance. And we're going to continue to be discussed and resolved here is around finance, |
| 0:37.9 | and we're going to continue to bring you some analysis and some reporting on what's happening |
| 0:42.5 | on finance here. But there's also been another glimmer of a really good news story for the |
| 0:48.5 | world, and that is that the nationally determined commitments with a deadline of 2035, the next round of national |
| 0:55.3 | commitments that is the big part of what we're due to be negotiating in 2025, culminating in |
| 1:02.2 | Belm, have begun to come in. So countries have begun to make these commitments. So we've seen |
| 1:07.3 | a commitment from Brazil, we've seen one from the United Arab Emirates, and we've |
| 1:12.5 | seen one from the United Kingdom. |
| 1:13.9 | So the conversation today is the first public event launching the UK's nationally determined |
| 1:21.4 | commitment. |
| 1:22.6 | I was honored to host it together with Ed Miliband, the Secretary of State, and various other |
| 1:27.4 | speakers that you will hear about in a minute. |
| 1:30.3 | And I just want to take a moment to sort of point out that this was really something that the UK went ahead and did this. |
| 1:38.3 | You'll hear in the discussion. This is a nationally determined commitment that is in line with the recommendations of science, the Climate Change Committee in the UK, 81% reduction by 2035. The detail, of course, will be |
| 1:51.1 | forthcoming. Some of it is there already and some of it will emerge around how that target will |
| 1:55.5 | actually be met. But it would have been really easy for the UK government to have looked at what happened in the US last week |
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