Biden Says The US Has Gotten Serious About Climate

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🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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President Biden continues his travel this week in Scotland, where he is attending the United Nations climate conference, COP26. Despite trouble passing his climate change proposals at home, Biden told the gathering of world leaders that the U.S. will become a net-zero emissions economy in the next three decades.

This episode: White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, White House correspondent Scott Detrow, and science correspondent Dan Charles.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jeff. After 24 hours of travel from Washington, D.C., I finally made it to Cairo yesterday,
0:05.6	and I'm standing in front of the great pyramids. This podcast was recorded at.
0:09.6	It is 205 PM on Monday, November 1st, 2021.
0:14.9	Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I'm guessing these pyramids will be here for
0:18.7	another 4,500 years. All right, here's the show.
0:22.6	Wow, I mean, these people are like flying all over the place, and what I meet by these people is
0:32.5	like our fans and listeners. And some other people too, Ayesha. Please don't discount.
0:38.2	Yes, and some other people too. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Ayesha Roscoe.
0:43.3	I cover the White House. And I'm Scott Detrello. I also cover the White House.
0:46.9	And there is a big UN Climate Convention happening in Scotland, and speaking of people flying
0:53.8	all over the place, Scott, you are there in Scotland. Hi, I'm. You are. And also in Scotland is
1:02.0	NPR's Dan Charles, who covers climate for us. Hey, Dan. Nice to have me here.
1:08.1	Glad to have you. So it feels like there is a lot riding on this moment. If if people have been
1:16.5	following these sorts of meetings and these sorts of summits, it feels like there's always a lot
1:22.9	riding on it because it is the climate itself that is riding on it, right? And so the goal that
1:30.8	everyone wants to hit is keeping the world from warming more than 1.5 degrees Celsius this century
1:38.4	compared to pre-industrial levels. Dan, how much has the world warmed so far? And there have
1:48.3	been a lot of commitments already made on climate. Have countries actually made any progress on this?
1:56.3	Well, yeah. So some basic background, you know, we are already hotter.
2:00.8	Just over one degree Celsius, that's almost two degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than, you know,
2:09.7	than the planet was before we started burning all the fossil fuels.
2:14.1	Countries have made all these promises, and you know, it's an official process within the UN,
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