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🗓️ 28 October 2021
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0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management, award-winning wealth managers who go above and beyond to support and guide you. |
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0:26.4 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. |
0:32.9 | Every week we take a look at some of the most important and intriguing stories from the issue with the writers behind them. |
0:35.8 | I'm Lara Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor. |
0:40.2 | This week, can COP26 deliver on its grand promises? |
0:44.3 | Plus, is it moral to bribe your child to go to church? |
0:47.9 | And finally, what are the ups and downs of book clubs? |
0:51.3 | First up, in our cover story this week, |
0:55.6 | Fraser Nelson assesses the state of the upcoming COP26 summit in Glasgow and questions their very effectiveness in dealing with climate change in a world of global players with very different priorities. |
1:03.0 | Fraser joins me now, along with reporter Jess Shankillman, who's covering COP for Bloomberg. |
1:08.0 | Jess, let's start with the basics. What is COP 26 which starts this weekend actually |
1:12.3 | hoping to achieve? That's kind of the million dollar question. And I've been thinking about this |
1:17.0 | a bit before we started talking because I think one of the problems with defining success at this |
1:23.1 | COP is it's not actually binary. Like if you look back to Paris or Copenhagen, they were trying to |
1:29.6 | achieve a global deal on cutting emissions. This time round, it's quite a lot more nuanced. And the |
1:36.7 | negotiations themselves are just around finishing the Paris rulebook so whether they can create a global |
1:43.0 | carbon market. So what you've kind of got is a lot of |
1:47.7 | other add-ons. So the Paris Agreement said that by 2020, we're saying 2021, because obviously we lost a |
1:55.8 | year in the pandemic, countries had to come back with bigger pledges to try and close the emissions |
2:00.6 | gap so that they could |
2:01.5 | try and get on course for limiting global warming to that goal of 1.5 to well below 2 degrees. |
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