Time to 'step up': Mark Carney throws down the gauntlet at COP28
Power Play
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🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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The diplomatic caravan is rolling into Dubai for this year’s COP — the United Nations' round of global climate talks. Scores of world leaders and luminaries — including King Charles and the pope — from nearly 200 countries are due to attend, alongside an estimated 70,000 delegates.
What are the chances of a meaningful agreement emerging at COP28? In this week’s edition of Power Play, host Anne McElvoy talks to Mark Carney, the U.N.’s special envoy for climate finance and action. He's banging the financial drum for the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, encouraging CEOs, financiers and leaders to put their money where their mouths are. "Let's see who stands up in the UAE at COP amongst the oil and gas companies and countries and we'll start to judge who's performing and who isn’t," he says as the conference begins.
Anne is then joined by POLITICO’s "Power Panel" to reflect on the interview. Zack Colman is a climate and energy reporter at POLITICO in Washington and Rachel Kyte is visiting professor at the Blavatnik school at Oxford University and co-chair of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative.
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| 0:30.0 | Diplomats from nearly 200 countries will gather in Dubai this week for the |
| 0:36.9 | United Nations annual climate talks. A conference known as |
| 0:40.3 | comedy. Yes, the diplomatic caravan is rolling into Dubai for this year's COP, the United Nations |
| 0:46.7 | round of global climate talks. |
| 0:49.2 | Scores of world leaders and luminaries, including King Charles and the Pope and government ministers from |
| 0:54.8 | nearly 200 countries, are set to attend alongside an estimated 70,000 delegates. |
| 1:02.0 | The former governor of the Bank of England and Canada, Mark |
| 1:04.8 | Carney knows a thing or two about climate talks. He's been intimately involved at |
| 1:09.3 | Glasgow's COP26 when he advised Britain's then Prime Minister Boris Johnson. |
| 1:15.0 | Now he's the UN's special envoy for climate finance and action and he's throwing down |
| 1:20.0 | a gauntlet. |
| 1:21.0 | Let's see who stands up in the UAE at COP amongst the oil and gas |
| 1:25.6 | companies and countries and we'll start to judge who's performing and who is. |
| 1:30.6 | Welcome to Power Play, Polit's Transatlantic Podcast, where I talk to some of the most influential |
| 1:38.0 | figures on either side of the Atlantic. |
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