The halfway point for sustainable development

BBC Inside Science

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In 2015 the UN adopted 17 sustainable development goals aiming to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure people everywhere enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. Ahead of a summit next week in New York marking the half way point, presenter Gaia Vince speaks to Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh, and Olive Heffernan, a science author and journalist focused on oceans and climate to find out how the world is doing. In July, a new chair was elected to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. Professor Jim Skea is a leading figure in the global push to decarbonise, adapt and innovate our way to net zero, and previously led Scotland’s Just Transition Commission. He speaks to Gaia about his new role and the importance of the IPCC. And this week we mark the death of renowned embryologist Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, who led the team that created Dolly the sheep in 1996. Gaia is joined by Roger Highfield, Science Director of the Science Museum Group, to discuss the scientific and cultural impact of the world’s first cloned mammal from an adult animal cell. Presenter: Gaia Vince Producers: Laura Northedge, Hannah Robins, Alice Lipscombe-Southwell and Emily Bird. Research: Patrick Hughes

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:04.8	This is the podcast edition of BBC Inside Science,
0:08.8	first broadcast on the 14th of September 2023.
0:13.0	I'm Guy Events.
0:14.6	Hello, on today's programme we'll be featuring research fields
0:18.4	with huge social implications.
0:21.1	We'll look at global efforts to tackle hunger,
0:23.4	poverty and biodiversity loss through sustainable development goals.
0:28.6	We'll be chatting to the incoming chair of the IPCC,
0:32.0	Jim Ski, about the scientific and diplomatic tools he's using
0:36.3	for climate action.
0:37.6	And as the scientific world marks the death
0:39.7	of cloning pioneer Ian Wilmert,
0:42.1	we'll look at the extraordinary legacy
0:44.8	of one very famous sheep.
0:47.2	She did seem to be a bit larger than life.
0:49.6	There I say it, Dolly was a bit of a diva.
0:52.0	But first, we're halfway through a hugely ambitious global endeavour
0:57.6	to rid the world of its biggest problems.
1:00.5	The 17 so-called sustainable development goals
1:04.4	were adopted by the United Nations in 2015
1:07.6	with a deadline of 2030 to end poverty,
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