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This is Ian Tegada from Planet Money, I'm Darien Woods.

And on today's show, we're going to broadcast an excellent episode of NPR's Daily Science

Podcast shortwave.

Host Emily Kwong and NPR's Science correspondent Lauren Summer will walk us through this very

thorny issue at COP27, COP27 being the climate conference held in Egypt.

And the issue is this, should high-income countries compensate lower-income countries for the

climate crisis which they are bearing the brunt of?

All that after the break.

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So Lauren, countries are coming together like they do every year to hash out their climate

policies.

But what are world leaders trying to get done at this summit?

Yeah, so the big overarching goal is to stop the planet from heating up to dangerous

levels, slow down climate change.

And that means cutting emissions.

But there is a goal on paper, which is to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, which is 2.7

Fahrenheit.

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