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Demystifying the Carbon Markets Episode 5 | David Shukman, Journalist and Former Science Editor, BBC

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Climate Change

Politicians get together internationally and negotiate line by line policy on clima change. And it's quite extraordinary to see hard faced negotiators at these conferences engaging in what's really french warfare, word by word, line by line, resisting. In the last hours of cop 26 in glasgow last november, there was an argument over the appearance of the word coal for the first time in a u.N. Climate negotiating document. The indians led a little resistance movement and objected to the fasing out of coal - which i think they argued would give them longer with that. But there you saw in real time the hard politics of this. You're just seeing more and more people

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