More money, more carbon?

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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For this week's series finale, we explain Indonesia's climate deal, why nobody came #1 in the CCPI's climate rankings and whether it's possible to grow an economy without increasing carbon emissions.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:03.6	It is Friday and that means indicators of the week.
0:15.3	We've got a very special edition today.
0:17.8	All of this week we've been looking into economic solutions to the climate crisis.
0:22.3	And to wrap up our series, we've each brought indicators that tell us something about the
0:26.4	future of the planet.
0:28.6	This is the indicator from planet money.
0:30.2	I'm Whalen Wong.
0:31.2	And I'm Darian Woods.
0:32.2	And I'm Adrian Ma.
0:33.2	Today on the show, we look at whether growing economically also means growing your carbon
0:39.6	footprint.
0:40.6	Also, we look at how countries are stacking up in their efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
0:45.3	And finally, we look at a deal to try and wean one of the world's biggest carbon emitters
0:49.9	off coal.
0:55.6	Indicators of the week.
0:56.6	Climate addition.
0:57.6	Set the scene for us, Darian.
0:59.8	My indicator of the week will be 62.
1:02.8	So just a few years ago, the world made 62 times as much stuff, so cars and refrigerators
1:09.0	and airplanes.
1:10.0	62 times as much stuff as we did in the 1800s.
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