71. We Can Only Face the Future if We Do it Together with Achim Steiner
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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As the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Achim Steiner has a relentless collaborative spirit. The conversation covers the relationship between the environment and economic development as big news comes this week from China.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. It's Tom here, co-host. I just wanted to say hello at the top of the episode, |
| 0:04.6 | because this podcast has been discovered by many thousands of new listeners in the last couple of |
| 0:10.0 | weeks. And I wanted to say welcome. We are delighted that you found us. Outrage and optimism |
| 0:14.9 | is a weekly podcast to look at the serious existential challenge we are facing from climate change, |
| 0:22.1 | but also to look at it with a resolute, determined, stubbornly optimistic lens that actually |
| 0:28.7 | suggests this can be the decisive decade that will be our legacy and we can come through it and |
| 0:33.4 | create a much better world. Each week we talked to somebody who has deeply involved in this last |
| 0:38.3 | week. We had Bernard Looney, the CEO of BP. This week we have Ackham Steiner, the head of the UN |
| 0:43.6 | development program, one of the most senior people in the UN system. And these people can range |
| 0:48.4 | enormously from business people to musicians, to artists, to policy people. So that's part of the |
| 0:54.4 | joy of this conversation. Climate change affects everybody. And so therefore this is a conversation |
| 1:00.2 | that attempts to include everybody. And that includes you. So we're pleased you're here. We hope you |
| 1:05.4 | stay. Please do listen to the back catalog. We got some great conversations and really hope that you |
| 1:10.5 | enjoy this week's episode. Here we go. |
| 1:25.6 | Hello and welcome to Outrageant Optimism. I'm Tom Rific Karnak and I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm Cristiana Viegels. This week we talk about the new China commitment to be carbon neutral by |
| 1:35.6 | 2060. We speak to administrator of the UN development program Ackham Steiner. And we have music |
| 1:42.5 | from She Drew the Gun. Thanks for being here. So it is a UN general assembly week and we are all |
| 1:55.6 | having it personally in our own rooms. It feels very weird that we're not together. Although honestly |
| 2:01.2 | I feel just as busy as I would if I was running around New York as I have been for the last seven |
| 2:05.7 | years or so at the UN General Assembly week. But it's all happening in my room. Cristiana, how you |
| 2:11.5 | enjoying your personal hunger week? Yeah, personal meeting. Running from my one microphone to the |
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