COP-portunity Knocks
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Alok Sharma on Climate, Carbon and COP acronyms.
COP26 President Alok Sharma joins Adam to talk all things Climate, Carbon and COP. He takes us deep into the negotiations, explaining how he’s going to meet the 100 billion climate pledge, what he's doing about NCDs and his plans for Net Zero by 2050. And we give him the ultimate Newscast welcome – with a COP26 acronym quiz! Also, Branwen gives us the run-down of the national picture on A-Level results day and when we can expect exams to return to normal.
Today’s Newscast was made by Natalie Ktena with Caitlin Hanrahan and Alix Pickles. The Studio Director is Emma Crowe. The Assistant Editor is Emma Close.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, we've got the president of the Cop Climate Change Conference joining us. |
| 0:09.8 | Not from Glasgow, but from his office in London, it's Alex Sharma, hello, Alex. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello, Adam, nice to see you. |
| 0:14.4 | Well, I have to say, learning about Cop has been right up my street because there's loads |
| 0:19.5 | of process, there's lots of very chunky documents and there's loads of acronyms. |
| 0:24.0 | So you're going to explain it all to us, but I thought we could kick things off with |
| 0:26.9 | a little Cop acronym quiz. |
| 0:29.5 | Are you up for that? |
| 0:31.0 | Sure. |
| 0:32.0 | Says the man who's got no choice. |
| 0:33.9 | I thought we could call this co-opportunity nox. |
| 0:36.5 | Or... |
| 0:38.5 | I mean, I think I think I'm going to get him, we should move on. |
| 0:41.8 | OK, OK. |
| 0:42.8 | Right, OK, let's get on with the quiz. |
| 0:45.4 | Right. |
| 0:46.4 | UNFCC, what does that stand for? |
| 0:50.1 | Yeah, so that's the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. |
| 0:55.5 | Which is why the whole reason we're here, basically. |
| 0:57.5 | Yeah, it's not exactly that's the whole reason we're here. |
| 0:58.9 | I always think there's too many Cs in that for that acronym. |
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