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Climate One

Taking Stock of COP26

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Climate One

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4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In 2015, delegates from 196 nations entered into the legally binding treaty on climate change known as the Paris Agreement, which set a goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2 and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.” Yet in August of this year, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new assessment report that starkly illustrated the world’s collective failure to meet that target. Delegates from across the globe have just met in Glasgow for the international climate summit known as COP26, with the hope of strengthening commitments to keep emissions targets at that 1.5 degree level.  After two weeks of negotiations, presentations and protests in Glasgow, COP26 is a wrap. This week we discuss what was achieved - and what wasn’t - at the summit.  For transcripts and other information, visit: https://www.climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts  Guests: Vanessa Nakate, Ugandan climate activist Jiang Lin, Adjunct Professor, University of California Berkeley Albert Cheung, Head of Global Analysis, Bloomberg New Energy Finance Support our work: climateone.org/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:34.6

This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. This year's huge international climate summit is over.

0:38.5

Did world leaders meet the challenge of keeping global temperature rise under 1.5 degrees? If you add a long-term target, it might get us to 1.8 degrees Celsius. However,

0:46.6

if you count the near-term actions by 2030, or probably at 2.4 degrees Celsius, so that's a major,

0:53.8

major gap.

0:54.5

But there were important outcomes from the meeting.

0:57.2

It's never enough.

0:58.7

I think there will be a lot of people who are disappointed in some aspects of it,

1:02.1

but good progress was made.

1:04.2

And our voices of the global South really being heard.

1:07.4

While Africa is on the front lines of the climate crisis, it's not on the front pages

1:13.1

of the world's newspapers. We can change these simply by listening to the activists who are

1:19.7

speaking up and amplifying their voices. After two weeks of negotiations, presentations,

1:26.2

and protests in Glasgow, COP26 is a wrap.

1:29.9

On today's show, we've invited a couple of guests to help unpack what was achieved and what

1:34.1

wasn't at the International Climate Summit.

1:37.2

John Lee and his adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on China's

1:41.6

energy and climate policy.

1:43.7

Albert Chung is head of global analysis

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