Loss and damages for vulnerable countries

BBC Inside Science

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Professor Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh, has died. He was instrumental in pushing for a loss and damages fund for vulnerable countries affected by climate change. Last year’s COP27 climate conference made a pledge to set up this fund. But, as yet, there is not one in place. Marnie Chesterton speaks to BBC climate reporter Esme Stallard about Professor Huq’s legacy, and where the money will come from for a loss and damages fund.

We also hear about an unusual snail that’s looking for love, with the help of matchmaking academic Dr Angus Davison. He’s hoping to find a suitor for the mollusc. Marnie talks to Lev Parikian, author of Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing, which has been shortlisted for this year’s Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize.

Geneticist, Professor Giles Yeo, who recently cycled from Land’s End to John O’Groats with two glucose monitors attached to his arms, gives us an update on his research. He wanted to find out how diet and exercise affected his body’s sugar levels.

Presenter:  Marnie Chesterton Producers: Hannah Robins, Harrison Lewis and Alice Lipscombe-Southwell Editor: Richard Collings Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

BBC Inside Science is produced in collaboration with the Open University.

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0:36.2	Hello, I'm Marnie Chesterton and this is BBC Inside Science first broadcast on the 9th of November 2023.
0:44.3	Coming up over the next half hour, is it a bird?
0:47.8	Is it a dinosaur?
0:49.2	Well, no, it's a terracore.
0:51.2	They had wingspans of up to 11 meters. I just have to say that several times.
0:56.7	11 meters. I'm a cricket fan and a cricket player so that is half a cricket pitch for me.
1:01.8	I now really want terra-sors on Test Match special. They're obviously at the
1:06.2	larger end of the extraordinary range of animals that evolved to fly and author Lev Perikian will be here to tell us more.
1:13.0	Further groundwoods, we attempt some matchmaking for an animal with particular needs,
1:19.0	and sugar expert Professor Giles Yow has been from Landsend to John A Grot's road-testing glucose monitors.
1:27.0	Go on social media, Instagram, wherever, Facebook, and see these continuous glucose monitors being sold now for health purposes
1:35.2	everywhere just like smacking you across the face like a wet fish.
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