Special Report: Landslides exacerbated by climate change

Amanpour

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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How can the most vulnerable countries protect against climate change if they’re drowning in debt? A major international aid agency revealed this week that 93% of the world’s worst-affected countries can’t afford to safeguard against natural disasters. Some are being forced to slash public spending or invest in fossil fuel industries just to pay back their debts to central banks. Action Aid International says it's high time for a radical overhaul of the way debt is managed to stop the climate crisis spiraling – pointing to IMF and World Bank meetings this week in DC. The impact of our changing climate is all around us – just look at the two apartment buildings that collapsed in a landslide in Mexico this week. Scientists warn that climate change is only making such disasters worse. Also on today's show: Peter Frankopan, Author, “The Earth Transformed”; Ai Weiwei, artist; Nicola Fox, Head of Science, NASA To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	The spread of human history is all about rises and falls and some of those great cities in the past aren't here anymore today.
0:14.5	Lessons to be learned, I ask historian and author Peter Francopan
0:18.6	how the climate has shaped history throughout the millennia and what we can know from civilizations that
0:24.6	collapsed because of environmental disasters. Then...
0:28.1	Look those pixels are so beautiful.
0:32.6	Art through activism, brick by brick, my conversation with Chinese dissident I Wei Wei
0:37.6	at the unveiling of his new exhibition, including the LEGO version of Monet's water lilies.
0:43.4	Plus, we can actually, for the first time,
0:46.9	really study the surface of Mars.
0:49.5	Walter Isixon asked NASA's new head of science,
0:52.4	Dr. Nicola Fox, how its upcoming missions. and about animals fascinating and sophisticated behavior. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London and we begin tonight
1:21.9	with a climate change catch-22. How can the most
1:25.7	vulnerable countries protect against climate change if they're drowning in debt? A
1:30.5	major international aid agency revealed this week that 93% of the world's worst affected
1:36.8	countries can't even afford to safeguard against natural disasters.
1:41.2	Some are being forced to slash public spending or invest in fossil fuel
1:45.1	industries just to pay back their debts to central banks. Action Aid
1:49.8	International says it is high time for a radical overhaul of the way debt is managed
1:55.0	to stop the climate crisis spiraling, pointing to the IMF and World Bank meetings this
2:00.2	week in Washington.
2:02.0	The COP27 Climate Summit in November made historic progress on creating
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