Summary
World leaders are talking conifers, cash and cows. But is it all hot air?
Laura K and Rebecca M explain all the comings and goings at the COP26 Climate Conference today.
The ex-President of the Maldives chats to Adam about whether rich tourists should stop flying to his sun-soaked islands.
And also, are croissants a climate catastrophe? What is Boris Johnson's favourite tree? And why won't Leonardo DiCaprio talk to us at the climate conference?
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Ros Jones and Georgia Coan. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm in the green room for the One Show, which is coming from BBC Scotland, |
| 0:10.0 | which is on the other side of the Clyde from the cop, I'm on tonight is can you believe this the cop expert with |
| 0:17.1 | Gethin and Alex? |
| 0:19.1 | Is it okay to admit that I'm a little bit nervous? |
| 0:24.2 | I'm just waiting to go on, on show music. |
| 0:29.6 | Oh, here we go. |
| 0:31.2 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, we're go. Yeah, yeah. Right, we go. |
| 0:34.0 | This is the most relaxing five minutes I've had since it's |
| 0:38.0 | really because it is so busy in there. |
| 0:41.0 | There's nowhere to sit, there's's so much noise and how it works with |
| 0:44.6 | the leaders is so they're here for the first two days and each leader gets a |
| 0:48.6 | three minute slot there are two different rooms so they're speaking simultaneously and you get ushered off once you've done your slot and I have to admit once you go into the room |
| 0:58.1 | Not everyone is paying attention. I think everyone's just waiting |
| 1:01.0 | Really? They're a slot. Yeah, and so all the leaders have gone home now I think everyone's just waiting for their spot. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, and so all the videos have gone home now |
| 1:05.1 | and they've handed over to their officials |
| 1:07.7 | and their civil servants who are going to work |
| 1:09.9 | on all this really painstaking detail and they're here until a week on Friday. |
| 1:15.0 | So speed dating and climate dating. |
| 1:17.0 | And I'm glad that we're making you feel very laxity. |
| 1:20.0 | Well that is short and sweet. |
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