Summary
Climate journalist Shreya Jai joins the team to talk COP26 from an outside perspective. How does Glasgow's climate change conference look to the rest of the World? The team discuss the political roles played by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, as well as the importance of not just the pledges made by big polluters such as the US, China, EU, and India, but the ways in which we could enforce these promises.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:18.4 | coming out of Hollyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.7 | It is 22 minutes past two on Thursday the 4th of November. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow, which at the moment is the home of COP 26. |
| 0:32.7 | And today I'm joined by. |
| 0:34.7 | I'm Lindsay Buse, a political correspondent based in Edinburgh. |
| 0:38.1 | I'm Phil Sim, I'm a reporter based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:41.3 | And I'm Raj Deep Sundu, usually based in Westminster, but currently sitting next, well, a little bit away from Lucy in the studio in Glasgow. |
| 0:50.2 | Yeah, so Rajdeep and I, I think we are at water. |
| 0:52.3 | We can have like a touching distance to UN territory at the moment for where we are in Peking? |
| 0:57.1 | Oh, no, can we? |
| 0:57.9 | No, I can't. |
| 0:58.7 | You can kind of half see it from the window gear. |
| 1:00.4 | So where we are in our studios in Glasgow is almost at the venue for COP26, but not quite. |
| 1:05.7 | But you can see it all built up around us, can you? |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, yeah. This is great for our audio listeners who can't see at your window. |
| 1:12.9 | Well, we're describing it, we're describing it. |
| 1:15.0 | And to try and get in here at the moment, which I guess is good, is the security is extremely high, isn't it? |
| 1:19.3 | You have to show them lots of passes. |
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