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COP Gear

Newscast

BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A high speed podcast looking at the day's news...

Adam chats to the F1 driver, Nico Rosberg, about whether petrolheads will ever become electroheads. The BBC's Simon Jack explains why UK businesses will need to show how they are intending on hitting climate change targets. And also, what's the latest with the Covid numbers? Fergus knows what's what...

Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Ros Jones, Georgia Coan and Sally Abrahams. The studio director was Cassie Galpin.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:05.4

Hello, I've finally gone upstairs in the press room, and this is where all the newspaper

0:10.1

journalists and web site journalists work, and they've actually got a really nice view

0:14.4

of the river, and because it's tea time, there's a beautiful sunset as well.

0:18.7

Anyway, the reason I've come up here is to speak to Olivia Rudgard, who's the environment

0:22.6

correspondent from the Telegraph.

0:23.8

Hello.

0:24.8

And we've got an update on Quasson vs Baconroll.

0:28.7

So when I went for breakfast yesterday in the cafe here, I checked the menu, which has

0:32.9

the carbon counts for all the dishes, and it said a plant-based Quasson produced more

0:38.2

carbon than a baconroll, which I was quite surprised by.

0:41.9

You were quite surprised by it, too, I'm guessing.

0:44.0

Yeah, I mean, it doesn't really go along with a lot of the things we hear about plant-based

0:48.2

food being better for the environment, so it was quite surprising, and the French, I think

0:52.4

the French environment minister decided to weigh in, which added a fun new facet to it.

0:56.2

In an interview with me, actually, just to give myself some credit.

0:59.6

A Quasson is so good, but it is fat, and it's not the best carbon footprint.

1:09.1

So you've done some digging, what is the latest?

1:12.4

So the latest is I found out who provided the catering here at COP26 and dropped them

1:16.6

in email, and essentially what's happened is they've actually used the labels for what

1:21.1

we might think of as traditional normal croissant, which obviously is made with butter, and

1:26.3

that's actually the label they've used on their plant-based croissants.

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