Three Takeaways From The COP27 Climate Conference

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

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The climate meeting known as COP27 has wrapped. Representatives from almost 200 countries attended to talk about how to tackle climate change and how to pay for the costs of its effects that the world is already seeing. Rebecca Hersher and Michael Copley from NPR's Climate Desk talk with Emily about why the meeting went into overtime, three big things that came out of it, and the long and bumpy road still ahead to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:05.0	All right, so COP27 has wrapped here to talk about it,
0:08.5	our Rebecca Hersher and Michael Coppley from NPR's climate desk.
0:11.8	Hello.
0:12.3	Hi.
0:12.8	Hello.
0:13.3	Hi, and Michael, welcome to shortwave and to NPR.
0:17.7	You have a new beat on the climate desk.
0:20.0	Tell us about it.
0:20.8	Thanks, Emily.
0:21.3	It's great to be here.
0:22.6	So I focus on accountability on the desk,
0:24.8	looking at what corporations are doing or are not doing
0:28.1	to address climate change and how money moves around
0:30.7	in global warming conversations.
0:32.1	Super interesting work.
0:34.9	We're taping this on the heels of the World's Big Esclimate
0:38.1	Conference, COP27, which just wrapped in Charmel Shake, Egypt.
0:42.0	Yeah, representatives from almost 200 countries
0:45.1	were at that meeting, negotiating
0:47.0	about how to tackle climate change
0:48.8	and how to pay for the costs of a hotter Earth.
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