83. How Europe is Racing to Zero with Frans Timmermans and Nigel Topping
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The Climate Ambition Summit this week announced some of the most ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions we have seen to date. And so with the European Commission announcing it’s target of 55% GHG reductions by 2030, the world has optimistically moved even closer to limiting warming to only 1.5C.
So, what set of actual policies, financing, social protections and market incentives will guide the EU towards achieving this ambitious target? The European Green Deal. It’s a set of bold policies guaranteeing “economic growth decoupled from resource use” as well as ensuring “no place and no person is left behind.”
Our guest this week is a major champion for The Green Deal, First Vice President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans. Frans shares his deeply emotional family connection to our responsibility in this historic moment, and we discuss his passion for climate when it comes to radical shifts in energy that bring about redistribution of wealth and justice to the inequality crisis.
And stick around for a performance from Rhys Lewis!
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| 0:00.6 | Friends, thank you so much to those of you |
| 0:03.2 | who have already responded to our listener survey. |
| 0:06.1 | This is so important. |
| 0:07.2 | And in fact, one very close friend of the podcast |
| 0:09.8 | has responded directly to me via a WhatsApp. |
| 0:12.3 | That's not how we're encouraging you to respond, |
| 0:14.6 | but let's listen to what she said. |
| 0:15.8 | Paul, are you with us just checking? |
| 0:17.6 | Yeah, I'm totally here. |
| 0:18.5 | What can it be? |
| 0:19.3 | I can't be worse than the last one. |
| 0:21.8 | Hello, outrage and optimism. |
| 0:23.4 | It's Lucy Siegel here. |
| 0:25.2 | I am a super fan of the podcast, as I hope you know. |
| 0:30.6 | I've been moved to send you this message |
| 0:33.2 | because one of the things that would make |
| 0:36.7 | your brilliant podcast, even more brilliant, |
| 0:39.2 | would be if Paul sang more. |
| 0:43.8 | Yes, more. |
| 0:44.6 | He has a rare, slightly unquantifiable voice |
| 0:50.5 | and talent, vocal talent, which is unmatched |
| 0:53.2 | anywhere in the climate sphere. |
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