Will Global Climate Talks Succeed?

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🗓️ 3 December 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Will developing countries sign on to binding carbon reduction targets? Will rich and poor countries agree to a financing package for climate adaptation? Will anyone pay attention to Republican climate deniers posturing on the global stage? Those are the questions people are looking to answer at the ongoing UN climate talks in Paris. In this week's show, we'll talk with ClimateWire Deputy Editor Lisa Friedman about how things are playing out at the negotiations. In the second half of the show, we'll look at a couple shakeups and spinoffs in the utility sector: David Crane's departure as NRG's CEO, and RWE's decision to split up its distributed energy and conventional energy businesses. We'll end with a conversation about how the U.S. government can more effectively support offshore wind. This podcast is sponsored by Huawei Technologies, a leading global ICT solutions provider. Huawei is proud to offer its FusionSolar PV solution -- a unique approach to integrating, optimizing and digitizing solar-power plants. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:20.0	optimizing, and digitizing solar power plants.
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0:35.0	For the week of December 3rd, 2015, this is the Energy Gang from Green Tech Media. tech media. This week, will the Paris Climate Talks deliver?
0:47.0	We'll have an update from an editor on the front lines of the negotiations.
0:54.4	Then it's been a big week of shake-ups and spin-offs in the utility sector.
0:58.8	This morning David Crane says he's stepping down as CEO of NRG and on Tuesday yet another investor-owned
1:04.8	utility said it plans to spin off its renewable energy assets into a separate
1:08.4	business. We'll give our take on both. Then we'll end by asking is the US government botching its
1:14.4	support of offshore wind. In Washington DC I'm Stephen Lacy. Welcome to the
1:19.0	show. Also in Washington is Catherine Hamilton of 38 North Solutions.
1:22.3	How is your Thanksgiving? I take it you would Washington is the Blue Ridge Mountains and my family meets down there. A whole bunch of us pile into an old house and it just being there really feeds my soul. So I fed my tummy and my soul.
1:41.0	Same. I come back refreshed. I was nestled in the hills of
1:44.4	southern New Hampshire by a wood stove the entire week. The only thing I need is
1:49.3	internet these days, right? So as long as I have internet I'm able to work anywhere. It was so nice to be there.
1:55.1	In New York City is Jiggershaw of Generate Capital. I trust you stayed in New York with
1:59.2	the little one?
2:00.2	Oh yeah, no, I had the concrete jungle that dreams are made of here.
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