Climate Week Kicks Off
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In honor of Climate Week, Mark Hertsgaard, executive director of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now and environment correspondent for The Nation magazine, talks about related events in the city, including Sunday's climate march, plus introduces his group's journalism awards, which honor the best climate journalists and their work. Plus: Amy Westervelt, climate journalist and the executive editor of Drilled, a multimedia climate accountability reporting project and one of Covering Climate Now's climate journalists of the year, talks about her work and how it fits into climate coverage.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Day 2 of Climate Week NYC, time to coincide with the world leaders gathering |
| 0:18.5 | in New York for the annual UN General Assembly session and the so-called Climate Ambition |
| 0:23.8 | Summit, which the UN is holding on Wednesday. |
| 0:27.2 | Yesterday, definitely for the benefit of world leaders' eyes, climate activists staged |
| 0:32.4 | the march to end fossil fuels. |
| 0:35.2 | Media reports estimate tens of thousands of people took that walk on a beautiful day |
| 0:39.4 | for it, from 56th and Broadway ending at 51st and 1st, just a few blocks from UN headquarters. |
| 0:47.1 | According to multiple media reports, President Biden was a key focus of the march, as organizers |
| 0:53.1 | targeted him for things like failing to totally phase out oil and gas drilling on public |
| 0:58.8 | lands, though he has reduced it, and they want him to declare climate change and national |
| 1:03.9 | emergency. |
| 1:04.9 | Here's one marcher who WNYC spoke with during the march yesterday. |
| 1:09.4 | We are so grateful for UN Secretary General Guterres, who is leading the charge asking |
| 1:17.3 | world leaders to come with real commitments to phase out fossil fuels. |
| 1:21.9 | This is the kind of leadership we need. |
| 1:23.5 | We need President Biden to step up, to rise to that challenge, and commit to ending fossil |
| 1:28.6 | fuels. |
| 1:29.6 | And the reports quote people at the march, young activists mostly saying Biden risks alienating |
| 1:37.5 | young climate concerned voters diminishing turnout for him in re-election swing states |
| 1:43.0 | next year, potentially. |
| 1:45.1 | On this show, just a program note, we're doing a segment every day this week for Climate |
| 1:49.2 | Week NYC, in conjunction with the loose-knit media collaboration called Covering Climate |
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