Summary
World leaders are arriving at the Glasgow climate conference (including the Prime Minister of Sweden, who's on this special Sunday episode). Adam and Laura chat it all through... And we hear from the boss of Greenpeace International, who's trying to help the COP26 negotiations move along a bit quicker.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham. The studio director was Tom Ward. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello from Glasgow, I'm here for COP26, the Huge Climate Change Conference that is kicking |
| 0:10.7 | off right now and is going to be a big focus of newscast over the next few weeks. |
| 0:16.4 | We've even got updated opening music for you, which you'll hear in a second. |
| 0:20.4 | You can tell something big is going on in Glasgow, |
| 0:22.3 | because you get to the train station and you see all these welcome to COP26 posters and there's UN symbols on some of the lamp posts and then I'm just walking to the conference venue now for the first time and you can just spot things that have popped up. |
| 0:35.5 | Like there's a place called the Sustainable Glasgow Landing, which is a bit of derelict land that's now got loads of tents on it for local and global |
| 0:45.0 | organizations to hold events. |
| 0:47.4 | And as I get closer to the SEC, which is the Convention Center by the River Clyde, you can just tell there's something big happening. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, and there's even a new bus route for the duration of the conference. |
| 1:01.0 | The C26, an electric bus that will ferry delegates around the city |
| 1:06.7 | from place to place. I'm glad I got here a bit early though because lots of my colleagues and fellow journalists in London |
| 1:14.8 | have been massively delayed because there was a tree on the train line which strikes |
| 1:20.9 | me as a humongous metaphor and maybe a sign of how this could or could not go. |
| 1:27.0 | And also this is my hometown. |
| 1:29.0 | So this is kind of quite an emotional combination of things for me. |
| 1:32.0 | Although I wonder how I'll feel after I've joined the mass. quite an emotional combination of things for me. |
| 1:33.2 | Although I wonder how I'll feel after I've joined a massive cue |
| 1:36.1 | to get my badge to get me into COP26. |
| 1:40.0 | Newscast. |
| 1:40.9 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:42.6 | When Kermit the frog sang, it's not easy being green. |
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