Global Meltdown: Christiana Figueres (4/17/13)

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🗓️ 22 April 2013

⏱️ 36 minutes

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These are tough days for international efforts to put a meaningful price on carbon pollution. It's a tough sell, and many clean-energy advocates say a global deal once dreamed about at Copenhagen will never happen. We have to think about “what have we learned and what is different” since Copenhagen says Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. “I have news for everybody,” she says, “no, there is never going to be one agreement that solves climate [change].” In conversation with Greg Dalton, Figueres discusses the challenges facing negotiation including differences between developing and developed countries and the need for a strong foundation of national regulation before international agreements can be reached. But there is hope, she says, “we are moving toward a tipping point, a technological and economical tipping point...that will allow us to move into a completely different future.” A conversation on the challenges, successes, and goals of international climate change negotiations. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California on April 17, 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.4	1 at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy,
0:39.6	economy, and the environment.
0:41.5	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time, climate one is the place
0:46.4	where big ideas get heard.
0:48.2	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,
0:52.7	Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter.
0:56.3	It's our future. It's time to come together.
0:59.3	Welcome to Climate One, a conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment.
1:03.2	To understand any of them, you have to understand them all.
1:05.8	In 2009, more than 100 heads of state gathered in Copenhagen to hammer out an international deal to reduce the carbon pollution that is destabilizing the Earth's climate.
1:15.7	Many large corporations lobbied for an agreement in late-night negotiations among President Obama and other leaders raised hopes the world might pull a hat trick for the common good.
1:24.9	In the end, the talks broke down, and there was no binding agreement.
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