What can we expect from COP28?

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🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

COP28, this year’s Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, started in Dubai on Thursday November 30. The Energy Gang will be there, bringing you all the latest news from the negotiations and explaining what it all means. As the climate talks get under way, Ed Crooks sits down in New York with Energy Gang regulars Dr Melissa Lott and Amy Myers-Jaffe to look ahead to the talks. On the show today, they explore the four key items on the agenda:

The Global Stocktake – a review of progress on cutting emissions since the Paris Agreement was signed.
The renewables goal – the idea that governments should commit to tripling renewable energy generation capacity by 2030.
The methane pledge – commitments to reduce carbon footprints by cutting methane leakage from oil and gas operations.
And climate finance – the search for ways to get rich countries to pay to help poorer countries cut their emissions and adapt to a changing climate.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Energy Gang a discussion show about the fast-changing world of energy.
0:08.0	I'm it Crooks.
0:10.0	Now today on the Energy Gang we're going to be talking about what to expect from the
0:16.5	COP28 Climate Conference in Dubai. The talks were opened this week by Simon Steele,
0:21.6	who's the UN's Executive Director for climate, and he was talking
0:24.3	about how the whole world is watching what's going on there.
0:27.2	And he quoted Yoda, he said, do or do not do, there is no try. To explain why the world is watching COP28, what it's all about,
0:35.8	I'm joined today by Melissa Lott, who is the research director at Columbia University's
0:39.6	Centre on Global Energy Policy. And also you have a new job I hear Melissa you've just
0:44.4	been appointed a professor at Columbia's Climate School. That is true that news
0:48.6	rolled out this week right as we are recording today. Yeah, many congratulations.
0:54.0	That's really fantastic.
0:55.0	What does it mean?
0:56.0	What are you going to be doing there?
0:57.0	Yeah, so what it means in large part, you know,
0:59.0	as I work here at Columbia with the incredible team of scholars
1:02.0	that I work with at the center and then also the faculty across campus.
1:05.0	A lot of the work at the climate schools like about building bridges between the different departments that used to be siloed but need to not be siloed if we're going to make progress on mitigation and adaptation.
1:14.8	So bringing the engineers and the finance and everyone into the same room from across campus.
1:20.2	So I'll be continuing that work and I will be continuing to teach our students and our next generation of leaders,
1:26.0	you know, about climate, energy transition pathways, where emissions come from, what tools we have to reduce
1:32.0	them, all of those different things so
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