Climate summit recommends global carbon tax

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This summer has seen nations across the world battle wildfires and extreme temperatures. It now has the dubious honor of being the world’s hottest summer on record, according to the latest European Union data. This comes just as the first-ever African climate summit comes to close. Hosted by Kenya and the African Union, the event called for the establishment of a global carbon tax system. Damilola Ogunbiyi is the co-chair of UN Energy and joins the show from the summit in Nairobi. Also on today's show: Richard Haass, President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations; Bobby Ghosh, Columnist, Bloomberg / Former Editor in Chief, Hindustan Times; author/activist Baratunde Thurston, host of PBS' "America Outdoors" To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunford here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	It's official this has been the hottest summer on record.
0:13.0	As African leaders wrap up their first ever climate summit,
0:16.5	I asked Damilola Gungi, the UN Special Representative
0:20.4	for Sustainable Energy, if they made progress.
0:23.0	Then,
0:24.0	Are you afraid you could die?
0:25.0	Of course, yes.
0:27.0	Because by the time I reached the hospital
0:31.0	I couldn't even manage to move my head.
0:33.4	A special report on rising temperatures in Kenya creating a malaria crisis.
0:38.6	And China's Prime Minister warns against a new cold war, ahead of the G20 summit in India.
0:45.0	What we can expect with veteran US diplomat Richard Hars and Bobby Gosh,
0:50.0	former editor-in-chief at one of India's largest papers.
0:53.5	Also ahead.
0:55.5	My name is Baratundi Thurston.
0:57.6	I'm a writer, sometimes comedian.
0:59.8	Here go my bit!
1:01.8	And I love being outside.
1:05.0	A step into the wild, writer and comedian Baratundi Thurston guides Hari Strinovassen
1:11.3	through his new season of America outdoors. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:38.0	The summer has seen nations across the world's
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