5 Years After Paris: What Is Happening at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference?

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

News, Trump, Opinion, Usc, California, Polls, Debates, Strategists, University, Education, Government, Universitysoutherncalifornia, America, Presidential, Dornsife, Bipartisanship, School, Democrat, Primaries, Elections, Shrum, Primary, News Commentary, Republican, Analysis, General, Polarization, International, Journalists, Federal, Commentary, Election, National, Conversation, Race, Centerpoliticalfuture, Conversations, Murphy, Moderator, Political, Coverage, Biden, Podcast, Politics

5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Center Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy are joined by USC Professors Monalisa Chatterjee, Shannon Gibson, and Robert O' Brien to discuss the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland and the proposed solutions for a path forward.

Bob Shrum - Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife

Mike Murphy - Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; NBC Political Analyst

Monalisa Chatterjee - Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife

Shannon Gibson - Associate Professor of International Relations and Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife

Robert O’ Brien - (Incoming) Fulbright Research Chair of Public Diplomacy, USC Center on Public Diplomacy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot-button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.3	Once again, I'm Bob Shrum, the director of the Center for the Political Future at USC Dornsyth.
0:35.3	I'm here with the center's co-director, Mike Murphy, for the next episode of what we
0:39.7	call the bully pulpit. Today's subject is what's happening at the COPE 26 United Nations
0:46.1	Climate Change Conference. We have a terrific panel. Mona Lisa Chatterjee is an assistant professor of
0:53.2	environmental studies at USC. She has previously worked
0:56.6	with the United Nations Development Program and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
1:01.5	with Stanford University. Shannon Gibson is an associate professor of international relations
1:07.5	and environmental studies at USC Dornstife. Robert O'Brien is an incoming Fulbright recumacy at the USC Center for Public Diplomacy,
1:16.1	among many other things.
1:17.9	So let me start off with this question.
1:20.0	President Biden announced what he called very bold climate targets,
1:24.9	but he's had to jettison some of his major climate proposals to get
1:29.9	enough Democratic votes. He hopes to pass his build back better plan. Did this hurt his
1:36.1	credibility in America's capacity to lean at Coke 26 in Glasgow? And anyone can take this up.
1:47.4	Shannon? Oh, sorry, go ahead. up Shannon oh sorry go ahead no Robert go ahead you volunteered yeah okay well from looking at it from an outside perspective I think it
1:54.0	really does hurt the United States ability to lead I think for outsiders looking at the
1:59.4	American political system right now, it appears
2:01.9	highly dysfunctional. It appears to be a system that makes it difficult to get anything done. It's
2:10.2	difficult to get a plan through the U.S. Congress. Fossil fuel industry seems extremely
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.