Can climate talk turn into climate action?

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🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In the first week of COP26, the UN climate conference, world leaders took to the podium to talk about what their countries are going to do to fight climate change. They made big pledges, but protestors in the streets call their promises "greenwashing" and are calling for more action.

Joining the show from Glasgow, Scotland, NPR science correspondent, Dan Charles, talks about how the conference is going. Will the diplomats follow the science on climate change? And will the nations of the world follow through on their pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions?

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.3	Hey, Emily Kwang here with Dan Charles who covers Climate 4NPR.
0:09.8	Hey Dan.
0:10.8	Hi there Emily, I am speaking to you from the Global Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
0:16.3	Nice.
0:17.3	Where the science of climate change meets the world of diplomats.
0:20.7	They're negotiating agreements, 190 plus countries are here.
0:25.6	There's giant ones like China, also tiny ones like Antigua and Barbuda, also thousands
0:31.5	of protesters in the streets who say this diplomacy has been going on way too slowly.
0:36.7	Dan, it's so cool you're here.
0:38.4	This is the 26th COP, which stands for Conference of Parties.
0:43.2	That would be parties to several climate agreements, including one signed in Paris in 2015.
0:48.6	What does it feel like to be at this COP?
0:52.2	It's discombobulating.
0:53.5	There are so many people.
0:54.8	There are 30,000 people who are registered for this thing.
0:58.4	There are pavilions putting on events constantly all day long.
1:03.1	There are press conferences, more press conferences, and you could ever try to attend.
1:08.7	It's overwhelming.
1:09.7	It's like a climate policy, Disneyland, and what's been the most striking thing to you
1:15.7	so far.
1:16.7	So at the very beginning, all these world leaders showed up and took a turn at the podium
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