The Energy Gang on the ground at COP28: the summit so far
The Energy Gang
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🗓️ 4 December 2023
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Summary
Part one of our coverage live from the conference
Ed Crooks is joined by Amy Harder & Bill Spindle from Cipher, the publication supported by Breakthrough Energy – the clean energy network founded by Bill Gates. Amy and Bill have been in Dubai since the start of the conference, and they analyze the big stories to come out of the first few days.
The loss and damage fund is the main focus; a few hundred million has been pledged to help developing nations deal with the impacts of climate change, but it’s a drop in the bucket for what’s needed.
Also, COP28 itself: there’s debate on the effectiveness of these talks every year, but there have been positive stories already. The tripling of renewables, pledges on methane reduction and loss and damages have all been high on the agenda.
Listen in as we kick off our special podcast series, live from Expo City in Dubai at COP28.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Energy Gang coming to you this week from the Cop 28 |
| 0:07.2 | Climate Talks in Dubai and I'm joined here in Dubai by Energy Gang regular Amy |
| 0:12.1 | Harder who is the executive editor of cipher, which is the news |
| 0:16.4 | publication produced by Breakthrough Energy, and that's the Clean Energy Network, which was |
| 0:21.1 | founded by Bill Gates. |
| 0:22.1 | Amy, thanks very much for joining us. |
| 0:24.0 | You're very welcome, happy to be here. |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, great to see you in this unfamiliar location. |
| 0:28.0 | Familiar faith in an unfamiliar location. |
| 0:30.0 | Great to see you, yeah. |
| 0:31.0 | And also we're joined by Amy's colleague Bill Spindle who is the chief |
| 0:35.0 | correspondent for Saifer as well. Well thanks very much also for joining us on the |
| 0:39.1 | Energy gang today. Great to be here. So Amy we we've only just arrived at you here. |
| 0:43.9 | We're coming on day four of the cop. You've been here right since the beginning. |
| 0:48.6 | What have your impressions of it been so far? What have you made of the way the conference has unfolded in the first |
| 0:54.5 | few days? Well one thing that has really struck me is just how much bigger and such a production |
| 1:01.4 | this is. Now that's for two reasons. One, we're in Dubai, which is an extremely |
| 1:06.9 | opulent city in the desert. So you have that dynamic, which I think we should talk about |
| 1:12.0 | because it's interesting but |
| 1:13.2 | secondly the climate debate has evolved to a place where there's trade shows and |
| 1:18.4 | there's companies and there's just everybody is surrounding these negotiations and one fact to kind of put this in a |
| 1:26.2 | perspective is the Paris cop which is cop 21 which is of course the Paris climate |
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