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Bonus COP27 Preview: Egyptian Ambassador Wael Aboulmagd

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Climate One

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4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Paris Agreement requires every country to declare their own nationally determined contributions, or NDCs, for reducing emissions. Last year at COP26 in Glasgow, it became clear that even the updated targets would – at best – limit warming to 2.4°C, almost a full degree above the 1.5° goal. But even more important than goals or promises is how every country turns policy into reality. This year’s COP27, hosted by the Arab Republic of Egypt, is being framed as “the implementation COP,” where the stated goal is to move from negotiations to action. In this special episode, Climate One Host Greg Dalton speaks one-on-one with Egyptian Ambassador and Special Representative of the COP27 President, Wael Aboulmagd, about how Egypt plans to close the gap between promises and implementation.  Guest:  Wael Aboulmagd, Egyptian Ambassador, Special Representative of the COP27 President For show notes and related links, visit ClimateOne.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.7

This is Climate One. I'm Ariana Brocious. The 27th International Climate Summit,

0:38.8

known as the Conference of Parties, or COP, takes place next month in Egypt.

0:44.2

If you haven't listened to our other show from this week, Countdown to COP 27, Feeling the Heat,

0:49.1

I'd recommend starting there to get a fuller scope of what we can expect nations to focus on.

0:59.1

In this special episode, we're airing our full-length version with Wael Albaimad, Egypt's ambassador to Brazil, and the special representative of the COP 27 president.

1:03.3

He joined us from Cairo. Here's Climate One host, Greg Dalton.

1:12.5

So the Paris Agreement requires every country to declare their own nationally determined contributions or NDCs for reducing emissions.

1:18.7

Last year at COP 26 in Glasgow, it became clear that even the updated targets would at best limit warming to 2.4 degrees Celsius, almost a full degree above the 1.5 degree goal.

1:26.8

So governments decided to give themselves another year to revisit and strengthen their targets.

1:31.3

Here we are.

1:32.3

What are you seeing about those goals?

1:34.5

Well, as you rightly said, they're called NDCs, so they happen to be nationally determined

1:40.1

contributions.

1:41.1

So as you rightly said, we're still not on track to keep the target, the temperature

1:46.0

goal of Paris Agreement alive, the two degrees and hopefully the 1.5 target. So as incoming

1:53.5

presidency, what we were able to do and continue to do is to press everyone, to encourage everyone

1:59.3

to update their indices. And that was part of the decision

2:02.1

coming out of Glasgow, invited countries who already have presented their NDCs that aren't

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