COP28: A Guide to the Climate Change Conference

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The 28th Climate Change Conference starts on Thursday in Dubai, and we’re giving you all the information you need to make sense of it.

To guide us through:

- Nigel Topping, business champion at the Climate Change Committee - Vanessa Nakate, climate activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador - Jordan Dunbar, host of BBC’s The Climate Question podcast

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, the COP28 Climate Change Summit is about to get underway in the United Arab Emirates
0:11.2	and we've had this message from Little J on discord saying I would love
0:14.8	newscasts to do a spin-off specialist show for Copp and really look into the detail like they did
0:19.7	in the Brexit cast days. Maybe focusing on the side discussions as well as the overall
0:24.0	picture. After all climate change is the greatest issue the world has ever faced and
0:28.2	makes Brexit look simple. Well little Jay that is what we're going to focus on in this entire episode of newscast.
0:35.0	What is happening at COP28? Why has there been 28 of them? What is a cop?
0:40.0	And of course some of my reflections from when I was at cop 26 which was hosted in my
0:45.1	hometown of Glasgow a couple of years ago anyway plenty to discuss and plenty of people
0:49.7	to join in on this episode of newscast. Newscast.
0:52.7	Newscast from the BBC.
0:54.3	Why can't people buy a house?
0:56.1	Look at their wages.
0:57.1	Do you have any questions on things that are not related to math?
0:59.1	People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about.
1:03.4	The era of global warming has ended the era of global boiling has arrived.
1:08.4	It's the first time ever I've been able to say, well done, Kia.
1:12.2	I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and
1:15.2	update this house. The Prime Minister is not under a desk.
1:18.8	Hello it's Adam in the studio and I've assembled a cop-tastic team of Avengers to help us understand what's going on.
1:25.6	He's walked about 10 steps from his desk next to mine, so a very low-carbon footprint.
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