Countdown to COP27: Feeling the Heat

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🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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For decades, scientists and activists have called for action to slow the pace of global warming. The political process has struggled and largely failed to keep up with the growing climate crisis. But through annual summits known as the United Nations Conference of the Parties, or COP, countries have finally started to commit to reducing their emissions. At last year’s climate summit, nations that make up about two thirds of the global economy committed to reducing emissions enough to try to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees celsius. At this year’s 27th COP in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, central questions will focus on how to pay for climate adaptation and mitigation. And, since the world’s 20 biggest economies are responsible for 80% of all climate disrupting emissions, how much money do those nations owe poorer countries suffering from a problem they didn’t create? Guests: Jonathan Pershing, Former Special Envoy for Climate Change, U.S. Department of State Omnia El Omrani, COP27 Youth Envoy Ambassador Wael Aboulmagd, Special Representative of the COP27 President Contributing Producer: Rabiya Jaffery For show notes and related links, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.1	This is Climate One. The 27th annual International Climate Conference is just weeks away.
0:37.2	At the end of the day, the question is not only are we doing enough, we clearly aren't,
0:41.0	but are we making progress, and I believe we clearly are.
0:44.8	We talk with the COP 27 Youth Envoy about what she hopes to accomplish.
0:49.7	To be the link and to bring in the perspectives, the solutions, and the calls to action of youth,
0:58.3	both in Egypt, Africa and globally, and feed it directly into the work of the presidency.
1:04.8	And this time, President Biden goes to the conference of parties or COP with a huge U.S.
1:10.2	climate bill on the books.
1:11.6	It's not a pledge. It's not a promise. It's not a regulation that might be flipped on its end.
1:17.3	It's a congressional agreement that gives it substantial standing.
1:21.3	How many climate summits does it take to rain in climate disruption? I'm Greg Dalton.
1:27.3	And I'm Arianna Brocious. Cop 27 will be held in Charmel Sheik, Egypt. This year's conference
1:32.8	is taking place at a time when countries across the world have been experiencing raging
1:37.1	wildfires, unprecedented heat waves, and catastrophic floods and hurricanes. The urgent
1:43.1	need for action has never been more clear.
1:45.8	And yet, here we are holding annual talks for the 27th time.
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