What Next TBD: The Case Against Climate Reparations

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🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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At this year’s annual UN conference on climate change, they are discussing “climate reparations,” wherein the rich countries that grew their wealth burning fossil fuels pay money to poorer and more vulnerable countries. It sounds sensible, but is the UN capable of administering something like this? And how much money are we talking here? Guest: Vijay Vaitheeswaran, global energy and climate innovation editor at The Economist. Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about Avast One at Avast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:33.8	Why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself? I'm Vijay Vai Thyswaran. I'm the Global Energy and Climate Innovation Editor at The Economist.
0:42.8	How many COPS do you think you've covered at this point?
0:46.9	Too many is the answer. There's no good number to cover.
0:51.8	Cop stands for Conference of the Parties.
0:54.4	It's the UN's annual summit on climate change.
0:57.2	This year's cop in Charmelshak Egypt is the 27th one.
1:01.0	The most memorable one probably was in the Hague in the Netherlands a couple of decades ago
1:07.3	when I was standing near Frank Lloyd, the U.S. negotiator who had a pie thrown in his face,
1:13.1	and I can still taste the custard.
1:17.4	Veejee argues that not all cops are created equal. There are big ones, and there are little ones.
1:23.9	So every five years or so is a big cop, meaning there's something quite substantial on the agenda,
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