The Future of the Climate Deal

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The incoming administration of President Trump has frightened many in the international environmental community. The result of US election in November was announced during the 2016 Marrakech UN Climate Change Conference, a meeting where most delegates were working to deliver on the promises of the previous Paris accord. Instead, a new US direction seemed to have emerged, with some in the new US cabinet going so far as to suggest the US should withdraw altogether from Paris, scrap the US’s own Clean Power act, and re-open coal mines. Roger Harrabin explores whether the Climate Deal is dead, and whether the EU and other countries, such as China and India, might follow the Trump suit and relax their low-carbon initiatives.

Image: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a sign supporting coal during a rally at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on October 10, 2016, credit: Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images

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0:00.0	Hello, thanks for downloading this podcast of Discovery from the BBC.
0:04.0	In a quarter of a century of reporting for the BBC,
0:10.0	this is a first for me.
0:12.0	It's the first time I have broadcast from a shower.
0:17.0	I don't want to alarm you. I have got swimming trucks on and I want to reassure you that this is a special shower.
0:25.0	Normally when you take a hot shower the water has warmed my gas or electricity but
0:32.3	not here I'm at a backpack a campsite on Pambad Island
0:37.4	off the coast of southern India and here it is the sun that's doing the work.
0:45.0	Stepping outside I can see the grid of black pipes on the top of the shower block that's absorbing the sun's heat
0:54.8	and a yellow cylinder to store the water. Solar power, literally, on tap.
1:00.6	I'm taking the stroll along the beach now past the Coconut Grove and over there
1:09.3	in the distance I can see a pink painted domed Hindu temple and there I'm told I'll find some
1:17.4	solar electric panels solar PV
1:21.9	well I'm just stepping into the Vivekananda temple as a large gold statue in front of me, but what's really striking is that it is
1:35.1	sweltering hot outside and much, much cooler in here.
1:40.3	They have done put a solar panels which is pretty good for this place so that it
1:46.4	saves energy and it is also able to harvest quite a bit of the solar energy from
1:51.6	here. And they're using it for lighting and also for Aircon in the meditation room?
1:55.0	Yes, they're using it for Aircon in the meditation room.
1:58.0	So that the people who can pray and meditate peacefully.
2:04.0	What's striking is that on the whole of Sunny Pamban Island
2:08.0	there is only a handful of solar panels.
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