UN Biodiversity Conference, Russian Oil Sanctions, China’s COVID Protests, and More

The World Next Week

Council on Foreign Relations

Politics, News, News:politics

4.6 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) takes place in Montreal, Canada; the European Union and Group of Seven (G7) plan to implement price caps and partial embargos on Russian oil to respond to the war in Ukraine; and the Chinese Community Party reacts to nationwide protests over its zero-COVID policy. Mentioned on the Podcast Oliver Holmes, “China Censors Maskless Crowd Footage in World Cup Broadcasts,” The Guardian Yanzhong Huang, “Can Xi Jinping Reopen China?,” Foreign Affairs Ian Johnson, “Xi Versus the Street,” Foreign Affairs James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon, “U.S. Midterm Results, G20 Summit, Prospects for Russia-Ukraine Diplomacy, and More,” The World Next Week “Russia Is Using Energy as a Weapon,” The Economist For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/un-biodiversity-conference-russian-oil-sanctions-chinas-covid-protests-and-more

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0:00.0	In the coming week, the UN holds its 15th Biodiversity Conference.
0:06.0	Western allies move to tighten restrictions on Russian oil,
0:09.0	and China grapples with protests against its zero COVID policy.
0:13.0	It's December 1st, 2022 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.
0:26.8	And I'm Jim Lindsay.
0:28.5	Bob, next Wednesday, world leaders will convene in Montreal, Canada, for the UN
0:33.8	Biodiversity Conference, also known as COP15.
0:38.2	This is the second phase of the conference, and it will focus on the finalization and adoption of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
0:48.4	Coming on the heels of the COP27 Climate Summit, what makes COP15 different?
0:53.8	Well, Jim, it's in many ways the other half of the global conferences dealing with epic
0:59.4	environmental crisis as we know it or as we fear it.
1:02.5	And the two are very much intertwined, actually.
1:05.0	It wasn't completely by design that they take place in the way they are.
1:09.4	We should know China was supposed to host this conference
1:11.5	and had to beg off because of its COVID restrictions, which we'll get to a little bit later.
1:16.6	But, you know, while the COP 27 in Egypt was about primarily climate change and how to deal with
1:23.8	cutting back on the emissions that are causing heat-trapping gases and lowering
1:28.4	global temperature increases and also helping countries to cope with those changes caused
1:34.5	by that.
1:35.7	This is about a broader sense of the biosphere, the functioning of the biosphere and
1:40.9	sort of how the land, air, water, altogether are going to be able to support
1:46.5	life on the planet, not just human life, animal life, plant life, insects, and so forth,
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