COP27

BBC Inside Science

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Technology, Science

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

One key issue on the agenda at the COP27 environment summit in Egypt is how to fund damage from the effects of man made climate change. Often the effects of climate change are felt the strongest in countries least responsible for creating the emissions. This year we’ve seen a range of extreme weather events including drought and flooding which scientists have attributed to man-made climate change. The idea of providing funding for such human-induced disasters has long been discussed informally at COP summits. Finally the issue is formally on the table. It's fraught with diplomatic difficulties, not least over who should pay and how much. We discuss some of the issues in getting a solution on this initiative known as ‘Loss and Damage’ with contributions from Josh Gabbatiss from the website Carbon Brief, Rachel Kyte, the Dean of Tufts University, Linnéa Norlander Assistant Professor of human rights and sustainability at the University of Copenhagen and Hyacinthe Niyitegeka, coordinator of the Loss and Damage Coalition. And we look at methane with Drew Shindell, professor of Climate science at Duke University and Author of the UN Environment Programme’s Global Methane Assessment, who tells us a reduction in methane could give us a quick fix in terms of efforts to stabilise global temperatures.

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0:35.8	Hello, I'm Guy Avintz and this is BBC Inside Science, first broadcast on the 10th of November
0:42.7	on Radio 4.
0:44.2	Well this week the show is all about the COP27 summit that's underway in Sharmleshake
0:49.5	Egypt, where the world's leaders are gathered to try and address the biggest global crisis,
0:55.3	climate change.
0:56.8	Well the science hasn't changed but the implications of it have never been more consequential.
1:02.8	As our greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, so too does the planet's temperature,
1:08.2	making the world an increasingly dangerous place to live.
1:12.3	We are on a highway to climate hell with our food still on the accelerator.
1:20.0	Is UN climate conference is the reminder that the answer is in our ends.
1:26.1	And the clock is ticking.
1:28.6	Obviously the world has changed over the past year, principally Russia's invasion of
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