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Nature Podcast

Podcast special: onboard the climate train to COP26

Nature Podcast

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4.5893 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Last weekend, hundreds of young people boarded a specially chartered train in Amsterdam to travel to Glasgow ahead of the United Nations COP26 climate summit.


Among them were scientists, activists and policy makers. In a Nature Podcast special, we boarded the train to catch up with some of them - to talk about their science, their motivations and their message.


News: All aboard the climate train! Scientists join activists for COP26 trip


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Dear passengers, we invite all the passengers to make the way to the train.

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We wish you a pleasant journey.

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Thank you.

1:15.6

Hi, Benjamin Thompson from the Nature podcast here.

1:22.4

Now, we've not got a regular show for you this week

1:24.8

because I've been on a specially organized train

1:27.3

taking hundreds

1:28.3

of people to the UN's climate conference COP 26. Our journey begins in Amsterdam and as we cross

1:35.3

Europe and head up to Glasgow where the conference is taking place, I'll be talking science

1:39.8

with several of my fellow passengers and finding out why they're on board. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning and a very welcome aboard of this Eurostar service to London

1:55.0

in Pankras International.

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