The road to Glasgow

Discovery

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🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Climate change is upon us. In 2018 the IPCC published a report with the most significant warning about the impact of climate change in 20 years. Unless the world keeps warming to below 1.5% degrees Celsius the impact on the climate will be severe. Sea levels will rise, leading to flooding, and extremes of temperature will become more common. The UK Met Office has forecast that the global average surface temperature for the five-year period to 2023 is predicted to be around 1.0 °C above pre-industrial levels. Just before Christmas the COP 25 meeting in Madrid ended with a compromise deal. All countries will need to put new climate pledges on the table by the time of the next major conference in Glasgow at the end of 2020. But there were no decisions on the future of carbon trading and big players such as US, India, China and Brazil opposed calls to be more ambitious in our pledges to reduce man made global warming. Across 2020 in Discovery Matt McGrath will be reporting on what is happening to save the planet. In this first programme he takes stock after Madrid and finds out what the world’s key players say has to be done before the meeting in Glasgow. (Photo: Man with placards and amplifier on global strike for climate change. Credit: Halfpoint/Getty Images)

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0:40.0	The heat wave spreading across Europe is expected to get worse as Germany, Poland and the
0:47.8	Czech Republic recorded the highest ever June temperature yesterday. Images from the International Space Station chart the smoke that at times is causing
0:58.0	the skies above Brazilian cities to go dark.
1:02.0	Now Australia's bush fires have burnt through 8 billion hectares of land since September.
1:07.0	Remarkably smoke can now be seen 12,000 kilometers away in Argentina.
1:13.6	2020 opened with a fiery red dawn as the bush fires swept across Australia.
1:18.8	On land in the seas and in the sky, the fingerprint of climate change driven by humans is becoming more evident month by month.
1:25.3	This year, according to many experts, will be the defining political moment in how the world
1:30.3	tackles the climate crisis.
1:32.3	Just after the US presidential election in November,
1:35.0	every world leader of significance will travel to Glasgow in the UK
1:39.0	to thrash out a deal to put the world on a safe and sustainable footing into the long term.
1:44.8	But does the global political ambition really exist to finally embrace the scale of change
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