UN climate summit: Race to save final deal
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
An earlier draft stopped short of calling for fossil fuels to be phased out. Also: Why Myanmar is now the world's leading producer of opium, and the president of a Turkish football club is arrested for attacking a referee at the end of a match.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 12th of December. |
| 0:10.1 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:11.9 | The presidency of the COP28 summit says a new draft statement will be released |
| 0:16.4 | amid anger over a previous version that failed to mention phasing out of fossil fuels. |
| 0:22.0 | In Ethiopia, a government minister is arrested after being sacked for comments |
| 0:26.0 | criticizing the authorities decision to ban an anti-war rally. We find out why Muammar is now the world's leading producer of opium. |
| 0:34.6 | Also in this podcast in Israel, the father of a young woman killed in October the 7th |
| 0:41.9 | says if Hamas is rooted out in Gaza he believes |
| 0:45.8 | that peaceful coexistence can happen. I hope that like in two to four years we'll be able |
| 0:51.1 | to do peace and build two states and be able to live |
| 0:53.7 | together next to each other. But everyone that's responsible for what |
| 0:57.3 | happened in October 7 will be eliminated. |
| 1:00.8 | Leaders of the COP28 climate talks in Dubai have gone back to the drawing board |
| 1:09.0 | trying to come up with a suitable joint statement on the future of the planet. A draft released on Monday was |
| 1:15.0 | criticized for failing to include any mention of phasing out of fossil fuels, already a contentious |
| 1:21.0 | issue because this year's summit is being hosted by the oil-rich United Arab Emirates. |
| 1:27.0 | Lippria Kangajum, a 12-year-old from India, stormed the stage at the summit on Monday with a sign calling for an end to fossil fuels. |
| 1:35.3 | The climate activist had her security clearance taken away and said she and other youngsters |
| 1:40.4 | had been let down. |
| 1:41.8 | A total number of 2,456 fossil fuel lobbyists were granted access to it. |
| 1:49.4 | How is this fair? It's a sudden increase, you know, and allowing fossil fuel |
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