How climate activists adapted to a repressive regime at COP27

Zero: The Climate Race

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Whether the so-called implementation COP will live up to its promise will be answered this week as negotiators begin to do the work of writing the final agreement. Bloomberg Green Reporter Akshat Rathi spoke with young climate activists about their engagement with this COP, the difficulty of activism in a repressive country and how they are making change in their own nations. We’re also joined by Bloomberg News reporters John Ainger and Jen Dlouhy to discuss the latest announcements from the conference regarding loss and damage.

Read our story on the difficulties climate activists faced at COP27.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Zero. I'm Akshadrati in Sharmaul Sheikh.
0:09.0	World leaders are committing things that they know they're not going to be there for.
0:14.0	If you're going to discuss about malaria, don't invite the mosquitoes.
0:19.0	It is us who are going to be there. It's us who are facing every day the hurricanes, the floods, the droughts, the feminines.
0:24.6	We know how to pitch, we know how to develop initiatives.
0:26.6	We can make a beautiful deck.
0:28.6	We just need a little bit of help.
0:29.6	They'll make those connections that it's really difficult to get if you're young, if you're from the global south.
0:33.6	You cannot rule a dead planet.
0:36.6	The second week of COP is underway. You cannot rule a dead planet.
0:38.3	The second week of COP is underway.
0:41.3	Negotiations on loss and damage and climate financing are going to heat up.
0:46.3	Whether the so-called implementation COP will live up to its promise will be answered this week.
0:52.3	Over the past few days though, I've been talking to youth activists about how they are engaging with this cop, which is happening in a repressive country,
1:00.0	how that reflects the broader challenge of activism and what they are doing to make changes in their own countries.
1:07.0	But first, I'm talking with my Bloomberg colleagues, John Inger and Jen DeLuhi, about what's happening on the ground.
1:15.1	Jan, John, welcome. Thank you. Thank you.
1:17.6	Now, Jen, you've been the reporter who's taken the hardest hits from Sharmel Shake. You've had food poisoning.
1:24.8	You've had mosquito bites. Now, you're getting a little bit of a cold.
1:29.1	Asking you how cops going is going to be a hard question.
1:33.1	You can't complain too much being in a seaside resort town.
1:37.0	But I will say that the mosquitoes have been pretty pesky.
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