Big backlash to COP 28 draft deal
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
There's widespread anger and disappointment as language promising 'phase out' of fossil fuels is dropped. Also: Polish legislators give Donald Tusk, who heads a pro-European Union coalition, the mandate for a new government, and the Japanese baseball sensation, Shohei Ohtani, signs a record-breaking 700 million dollar deal to play for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.2 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:07.4 | This edition is published in the early hours of Tuesday, the 12th of December. |
| 0:11.1 | Is the UN Climate Summit on the brink of failure. |
| 0:14.0 | We will not sign our gift certificate. |
| 0:16.0 | We cannot sign on to text that does not have strong commitments on phasing out fossil fuels. |
| 0:22.0 | European and US delegates say the latest draft commitments on phasing out fossil fuels. |
| 0:22.6 | European and US delegates say the latest draft agreement doesn't do enough to tackle |
| 0:27.3 | global warming. |
| 0:29.3 | Poland looks set to get a new pro-EU government after the populist law and justice party lost power and |
| 0:35.8 | can I come to your house today? Sure. I don't have anything they plan just a giant |
| 0:40.7 | blowout party with all the Barbies and planned choreography and a bespoke song you should stop by. |
| 0:45.0 | Award season alert we run through the Golden Globe film and TV nominations. |
| 0:50.0 | Also in the podcast, the Ukrainian president criticizes US Republicans for blocking a military |
| 0:58.1 | aid request and why are we listening to more music than ever before? It's things like commuting, it's while we're working, |
| 1:05.1 | it's while we're cooking, eating, exercising. There's so many different things in which music |
| 1:09.9 | can be part of our lives. Limiting the rise in global temperatures to one and a half degrees above pre-industrial levels |
| 1:22.0 | is only possible by stopping burning |
| 1:24.7 | fossil fuels. That was the message from the UN chief to the COP28 Climate Summit in |
| 1:30.0 | Dubai a few days ago and as the progressed, it looked like the world would finally |
| 1:35.2 | agree to, quote, phase out fossil fuels. But that all changed on Monday when that phrase was |
| 1:42.0 | dropped from the latest draft agreement, angering climate |
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