A victorious but cautious PM at Cop26: Politics Weekly podcast

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🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Rowena Mason and Peter Walker assess the performance of world leaders at Cop26 in Glasgow. Has the summit been anything more than smoke and mirrors?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:08.0	As world leaders leave Glasgow,
0:10.0	jetting off on their private planes,
0:11.8	Boris Johnson will hope some big pledges
0:14.5	and Jeff Bezos can convince us
0:16.5	COP26 has been a success so far.
0:19.6	I'm Rowie and Mason,
0:20.8	Deputy Political Editor for the Guardian,
0:23.1	and this is Politics Weekly.
0:30.4	We are in roughly the same position
0:33.2	by fellow global leaders as James Bond today,
0:38.1	except that the tragedy is,
0:41.6	this is not a movie,
0:44.8	and the Doomsday device is real.
0:48.0	On Monday, Boris Johnson addressed more than 100 heads of government
0:51.2	at the World Leaders Summit in Glasgow.
0:53.5	Over the past two days,
0:54.8	presidents and prime ministers have negotiated deals
0:57.2	before leaving their delegation teams to talk some more
1:00.1	as the UN Climate Summit carries on.
1:03.3	COP26 is considered the world's last chance
1:06.0	of reversing dangerous climate catastrophe,
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