The State of Global Climate Talks (Live w/ Mary Robinson)
A Matter of Degrees
Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
As we work on season 2, we're sharing a live episode of the show that we just recorded at the Bloomberg Green Summit.
The conversation is all about where things stand in the lead-up to global climate talks in the fall.
We were fortunate to get Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland, to talk about this topic with us. Mary served as the President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. She's now the chair of the Elders.
Mary has dedicated much of her career to solving the climate crisis. She's the author of two moving memoirs, "Everybody Matters" which was from 2012 and "Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience and the Fight for a Sustainable Future," was published in September 2018. She is also co-host of a podcast on the climate crisis, called "Mothers of Invention."
In this episode, we go deep with Mary on what we can expect from this year's international climate negotiations.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a matter of degrees. |
| 0:03.2 | Stories for the climate curious. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Dr. Leah Stokes. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Dr. Catherine Wilkinson. |
| 0:09.2 | And I got to tell you, it's been a minute since I've seen Dr. Stokes with her headphones on. |
| 0:14.2 | Yeah, we haven't seen each other in our pod ways recently, have we, Catherine? |
| 0:20.4 | Mostly just, you know, late night phone calls about the clean |
| 0:23.5 | electricity standard and whatever else is going on. Are you trying to say that I'm a one-track |
| 0:30.8 | mind? Well, you know what my mother says, focus. You know what my mother says, focus. Follow one course until successful. I got one course. I'm following it. |
| 0:46.5 | So don't get too excited because this is not yet the official start of season two. Season two is coming, but we wanted to pop back into |
| 0:57.4 | your feed now with a really special live episode of the show that we just recorded. |
| 1:03.0 | This is actually the first of two live episodes we'll be bringing you between our seasons. |
| 1:07.9 | This first one is all about treating climate change like the global crisis that it is. |
| 1:13.0 | We look at what's being done on the international stage to try to save us from the worst impact of the climate crisis. |
| 1:19.9 | And we decided to have this conversation with a really incredible expert and leader on this topic for such a long time, Mary Robinson. She was the |
| 1:29.2 | president of Ireland from 1990 through 1997. And then she was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| 1:36.7 | from 97 to 2002. She's now the chair of the elders. She's a climate justice activist, a self-proclaimed angry granny for |
| 1:46.1 | climate justice, actually. And she co-hosts the amazing podcast, Mothers of Invention. And we wanted |
| 1:52.5 | to talk to Mary because she has spent so very much of her career thinking about how we |
| 1:58.3 | advance human well-being around the world and how we solve the climate crisis |
| 2:02.7 | with justice at the core. And we started out by asking Mary both a simple and a complex question. |
| 2:09.4 | What is this thing these climate people are always talking about called the cop, the C-O-P? What is it? |
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