Eyes on climate: new ideas to fight global warming
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As the world turns its attention to addressing climate change, Business Daily is in Edinburgh. We bring you an inside glimpse of the conversations setting the agenda ahead of the UN climate conference COP 26, which starts in Glasgow in just over two weeks. Here in the Scottish capital, the ideas company TED - famous for Ted Talks - is holding its own climate summit, Countdown. It puts CEOs, government ministers, philanthropists and activists all in the same room. Vivienne Nunis hears from Pacific Islander Selina Leem, who explains how her home country, the Marshall Islands, is already dealing with rising sea levels. Jim Snabbe, the chairman of the world's biggest shipping firm, tells us how Maersk plans to move to a new green fuel, while Denmark's energy minister explains his country's plans to vastly scale-up wind power production.
Producer: Sarah Treanor Image: Selina Leem. Credit: Skoll.org
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Business Daily. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Vivian Nunes and today we're coming to you from Edinburgh. |
| 0:10.8 | The world's turning its attention to Scotland and to climate change. |
| 0:15.2 | We're bringing you an insider's glimpse of the conversation setting the agenda |
| 0:18.9 | in the lead-up to the UN climate conference |
| 0:21.2 | top 26 in just over two weeks time. |
| 0:28.2 | Here in Edinburgh, the ideas company TED, famous for TED Talks, is holding its own |
| 0:33.9 | climate summit called Countdown. CEOs, government ministers, philanthropists and activists are all here. |
| 0:41.0 | We hear what they have to say. |
| 0:42.9 | From those experiencing climate change... |
| 0:45.3 | Their entire house was just engulfed by the waves. |
| 0:50.9 | To business leaders pitching new ways to address it. |
| 0:54.3 | Out comes a green fuel, which is liquid at normal temperature and can be used in a combustion engine. |
| 1:00.5 | A sneak peek of the conversations to come. Here on Business Daily from the BBC. Climate change is happening now. |
| 1:16.8 | Bringing it under control by limiting global warming is, many argue, the biggest challenge we face. |
| 1:22.8 | Most people would agree protecting the environment is a priority. |
| 1:27.0 | But how do we unravel a global economic system fueled by oil and gas, |
| 1:31.6 | which fails to price in the true cost of carbon emissions, |
| 1:35.2 | which are causing temperatures to increase and sea levels to rise? |
| 1:40.5 | Ugot, braille, turn the tide chanced my ancestors, we must give back. |
| 1:47.1 | Now a different bai is chanted unto us. |
| 1:50.6 | The thunder strikes as the sea demon is swept through the lands in the fiery likeness of Lerdao's fire, |
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