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Podlitical

The Climate Change Election?

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6157 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Green pledges are being rolled out, but are these real winds of change or all bluster? The team chat climate change, and whether it's the big issue of this election.

Transcript

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You're listening to BBC Scotland.

0:32.0

Hello, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast,

0:35.8

which gives you an inside look at the biggest stories

0:37.8

coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. It's a quarter past one on Tuesday, the 26th

0:43.5

November. I'm Laura Maxwell, a journalist based at BBC Scotland in Glasgow. Now, as the amount of

0:49.7

carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases reach new highs. Today, we're focusing on climate change.

0:56.0

We have had stark warnings this week from the UN that governments will have to massively increase their goals to cut carbon over the next decade if we're going to avoid dangerous global warming.

1:06.5

So during this campaign, are the political parties focusing enough on the climate?

1:11.2

Here, to tackle this topic, I'm joined by...

1:13.8

I'm Lindsay Buse, a journalist usually based at the Scottish Parliament, but today I'm with Laura in Glasgow.

1:19.2

Welcome.

1:20.0

I'm Phil Sim, I'm a reporter still based at the Scottish Parliament.

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