Carbon date: Biden’s climate summit
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
President Joe Biden laid out ambitious emissions targets yesterday, but in order to be taken seriously on climate change, America has some reputation rebuilding to do. Researchers are starting to understand why online meetings are so exhausting—and are pinpointing the up sides of work lives lived increasingly online. And the waning influence of awards shows such as this Sunday’s Oscars.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:09.6 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.6 | A working life spent bouncing from one video call to the next is frankly exhausting, and |
| 0:23.6 | researchers are starting to understand why. But the world's forced shift to Zoom and teens isn't |
| 0:30.0 | all bad. After all, no one knows you're wearing pajama bottoms. And speaking of staring at |
| 0:36.8 | a screen, it's the Academy Awards on Sunday. |
| 0:39.9 | Viewership has long been slipping. |
| 0:42.5 | In a disaggregated, algorithm-driven pile of what's now just called content, |
| 0:47.7 | how influential can old-school awards like the Oscars be? |
| 0:55.3 | But first... |
| 0:57.0 | President Joe Biden announced an ambitious new climate target for America yesterday |
| 1:05.5 | to cut its emissions in half by 2030 relative to 2005 levels. |
| 1:16.3 | No nation can solve this crisis on our own, as I know you all fully understand. All of us, all of us, and particularly those of us who represent the world's largest economies, |
| 1:21.6 | we have to step up. |
| 1:23.4 | The announcement came on the first day of a two-day global climate summit convened by Mr. Biden. |
| 1:28.6 | It was warmly received by those in attendance. |
| 1:31.4 | You have started this summit by walking the talk. |
| 1:33.7 | I would like to thank President Biden for taking this initiative. |
| 1:37.9 | I'm really thrilled by the game-changing announcement that Joe Biden has just made. |
| 1:45.0 | And I'm very proud that the UK is doing the same. |
| 1:49.2 | Yes, sir-president, Mr. President, dear Joe Biden, dear colleagues, |
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