Can climate change be solved without COP? with Patricia Espinosa

Zero: The Climate Race

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4.7 • 219 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As week one wraps up at COP27 in Sharm El Sheik in Egypt, Bloomberg Green Reporter Akshat Rathi talks with Patricia Espinosa, who until August 2022 was the executive secretary of the UNFCCC, the body charged with organizing the annual COP climate conferences. Espinosa tells Zero what goes on behind the scenes at COP to get the 200 participating member states to agree, and why the global platform is vital for making any progress on climate issues. We’re also joined by Yinka Ibukun, Bloomberg News West Africa Bureau Chief, to hear about whether the “African COP” is living up to its name.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Zero. I'm Akshadrati from Sharmael Sheikh Egypt.
0:08.0	Men in office, how are you going to be remembered?
0:12.0	So today, I'd like to share with you how the United States is meeting the climate crisis with urgency.
0:18.0	You wish to be remembered as one who did a lot of nothing while in power.
0:22.6	I signed the law my proposal for the biggest, most important climate bill in the history of our country.
0:28.6	The inflation reduction now.
0:30.6	No government in the world has enough money to be able to affect this transition at the speed we need without
0:40.3	bringing the private sector to the table.
0:42.3	It's a great question I asked for by a significant amount, $368 billion.
0:48.3	We need trillions of dollars.
0:50.3	The time to force action is right now, right here as the African COP.
1:00.6	It's been a busy first week at COP 27. Loss and damage made it onto the agenda. World
1:06.3	leaders came and spoke in their dozens and everyone, the zero team included, is running a little bit
1:12.6	short on sleep. But we are only halfway. Next week, the negotiations will gather pace,
1:18.8	and we'll get a clearer idea of what the outcome will be at the end of these two frenetic weeks.
1:25.4	Later in the show, we'll be hearing from Patricia Espinoza, who until this year headed the
1:30.3	United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the body that organizes cop meetings.
1:36.3	We'll hear what goes on behind the scenes to get each of the 200-odd member states to agree
1:42.3	on a deal.
1:43.3	But first, I'm joined by Bloomberg's West Africa
1:46.1	Bureau Chief, Yinka, Ibucombe. Yinka, welcome to Zira. Thanks, Akshat. Now, every time I've seen you
1:53.3	this week, you seem to have interviewed someone really interesting. It seems like you are the one
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