Focus on the climate

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Leaders around the world are rolling back climate policies and pledges, purportedly to boost their economies. In Britain, the government has just approved a huge new oil and gas field in the North Sea, one week after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak slow-rolled carbon neutral targets. The International Energy Agency says that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would require no new drilling, while a new report by Oxford University finds that Britain's energy needs could be met entirely by wind and solar power by 2050. The deputy leader of the UK Green Party, Zack Polanski, joins the show to discuss climate politics, UK energy security, and future energy supply. Also on today's show: Betsey Stevenson, professor of economics and public policy and former adviser to President Obama, discusses whether the green agenda in the US is at risk, as well as the future of electrical vehicles and auto makers. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunport. Here's what's coming up.
0:09.0	After rolling back carbon neutral targets, Britain now doubles doubles down drilling for more gas and oil.
0:16.1	Senior Green Party leader Zach Polanski joins me.
0:19.2	Then President Biden's historic picket, where his climate targets are an issue for striking
0:25.8	auto workers.
0:26.8	But what are the facts?
0:28.6	I ask Michigan economics professor Betsy Stevenson.
0:32.1	Plus, as migrant crossing surge at the southern US border,
0:36.6	Chilean author Isabela Yende gives a face to the faceless
0:40.7	in her new novel, The Wind Knows My Name.
0:44.0	Also ahead, they're looking around and they're starting to wonder
0:47.6	whether the church is just using Jesus as a means to an end.
0:51.9	American evangelical Christians are adrift,
0:55.2	says Russell Moore, former leader of the Southern Baptist Convention.
0:59.5	He speaks to Michel Martin about his new book,
1:02.2	Moozing our religion. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina W-Iwanpur in London. Is the global
1:24.3	green agenda in trouble as leaders around the world are rolling back
1:28.4	climate policies and pledges they say to boost their economies? Here in Britain, the government has just approved a huge new oil and gas field in the North Sea.
1:38.0	Just a week after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's slow rolled carbon neutral targets.
1:43.7	But to be clear, the International Energy Agency says
1:47.4	that limiting global warming to that 1.5 degrees
1:51.2	Celsius would require no new drilling.
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