99. Hope Is a Verb with Fred Krupp
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
With the Biden U.S. Climate Summit barely in the rearview mirror, our hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson unpack what this moment means for global leadership, ambition, and the gaps in the road ahead for the climate movement. The new U.S. NDC of 50% GHG reductions by 2030 sets the stage for the rest of the decade, so what is next?
And our interview this week is with Fred Krupp, long-serving President of the Environmental Defence Fund (EDF). We discuss one of the most pressing and, until now, overlooked issues of methane leakage and emissions, and their wildly powerful short-term warming potential. EDF is launching a satellite soon that will track methane emissions around the world to keep us all accountable. Amazing.
We also celebrate the announcement at the Biden summit of the launch of the LEAF Coalition, a project that the EDF is partnering in with both private sector and government participation, and the impact this private and public partnership will have on tackling the stubborn challenge of tropical deforestation on a meaningful scale.
And be sure to hang around for a live performance from ViVii of their song ‘One Day’!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism, I'm Tom Rifickarnak. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Cristiana Fiyedas. |
| 0:17.2 | And I'm Paul the concern. |
| 0:18.8 | This week we speak about what came out of the remarkable Earth Day Summit hosted by President |
| 0:23.8 | Biden last week. |
| 0:25.2 | We speak to Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, and we have Music. |
| 0:29.9 | From Vivi. |
| 0:30.9 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:45.9 | So this is effectively the morning after the world changed and pivoted back to climate action |
| 0:51.4 | last week. |
| 0:52.4 | I don't know how much of it you guys watched, but it was just leader after leader, different |
| 0:57.3 | announcements, the tone. |
| 0:58.9 | It kind of felt like the next moment that the world pivoted back to this issue after |
| 1:03.3 | parity. |
| 1:04.3 | And I know there's been highs and lows since then, deep long lows and the odd small high, |
| 1:08.6 | but this was really everything was back. |
| 1:11.0 | What do you think? |
| 1:12.0 | Paul, do you want me to jump in? |
| 1:14.8 | Well, I think so, seeing as you're kind of moving your head in a little dance movement. |
| 1:18.4 | Like, this is such a great day. |
| 1:20.2 | I just don't want to stop the flow. |
| 1:22.0 | So Cristiana, you have the floor. |
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