The Road to Copenhagen: Are We on Track?

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🗓️ 9 June 2009

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The Road to Copenhagen: Are We on Track? Bill Reilly, Chairman, Climate Works Foundation; Former Administrator, EPA Larry Schweiger, President, National Wildlife Federation; Board Member, Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection John Bryson, Retired CEO, Southern California Edison; Co-founder, National Resources Defense Council Greg Dalton, Vice President, Commonwealth Club of California In six months more than 180 nations will gather in Copenhagen to hammer out one of the most far-reaching international treaties since the post-war order was established nearly 70 years ago. The Obama administration is taking a proactive approach. Environmentalists and businesses are weighing in. Is the world on track to make a deal? What will it look like? How is California helping set the agenda? This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on June 9, 2009 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	Welcome to this podcast of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club.
0:35.4	I'm Greg Dalton, founder of Climate One.
0:38.2	Climate One brings together thought leaders from around the world
0:41.1	to advance solutions to global warming.
0:44.0	The Commonwealth Club is a non-profit, non-partisan forum open to the public.
0:48.9	Join us online at commonwealthclub.org.
0:54.8	Welcome to today's meeting of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club of California.
0:58.5	I'm Greg Dalton, the founder of Climate One.
1:00.9	Today we're talking about the road to Copenhagen, the United Nations negotiations now underway
1:06.0	are scheduled to conclude in Copenhagen in December with a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. Countries that sign a
1:12.5	possible Copenhagen treaty would then have three years to ratify the new deal before the Kyoto
1:17.8	agreement expires in 2012. That's the idea anyway of climate negotiators and advocates. Is the
1:24.4	world on track for a landmark deal that puts a price on carbon pollution for the first time?
1:29.9	What are the keys to achieving a global compact among developed and developing countries?
1:35.2	Will the U.S. passed domestic climate legislation?
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