32. Closing the Emissions Gap with Patricia Espinosa
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
After a devastating UNEP Emissions Gap report details how governments are not doing enough to meet the 1.5C Paris Agreement target, Tom and Paul ask the question, "Can we still do this?" Later, Christiana joins her successor at the UNFCCC, Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa, for the scoop on what we should expect out of COP25 beginning Monday in Madrid.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. My name's Tom Rifik Karnak. |
| 0:16.0 | My name's Paul Dickinson. Where's Christina? Where's Christina? |
| 0:22.0 | Where's Christina? |
| 0:23.0 | You're lost without your cue poor. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm not lost, I'm just saying where is she? |
| 0:26.0 | I mean, I'm a little lost. |
| 0:28.0 | Christina is sadly away, |
| 0:30.0 | so we're going to have to carry on and do the best we can. |
| 0:32.0 | Home alone. Okay, let's see how we get on. It's rather exciting. we're going to have to carry on and do the best we can. |
| 0:32.5 | Home alone. |
| 0:33.1 | Okay, let's see how we get on. |
| 0:34.2 | It's rather exciting, but very sad. |
| 0:36.6 | So this week we talk about the recent UN Emissions Gap report |
| 0:40.6 | that reveals just how far we have to go. |
| 0:43.0 | And we also bring you an interview |
| 0:45.0 | that Christina did with her successor |
| 0:47.0 | at the UNF Triple C, Executive Secretary |
| 0:50.0 | Patricia Espinoza. |
| 0:51.0 | Thanks for being here. So Paul, just you and me, home alone. What are we going to do? |
| 1:00.0 | Well, let's take on... So Paul, just you and me, home alone. What are we going to do? |
| 1:03.8 | Well, let's take on the most desperate challenge of our time, |
| 1:08.1 | which is essentially this report, Tom, right? |
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