This year's huge international climate summit is over. Did world leaders meet the challenge of keeping global temperature rise under one point five degrees? And are voices of the global south really being heard? Jon leeand his adjunct professor at the university of california berkeley focused on china's energy and climate policy. Albert chung is head of global analysis at bloomburg new energy finance. We jumped right in to discuss how much progress was really made this year.
In 2015, delegates from 196 nations entered into the legally binding treaty on climate change known as the Paris Agreement, which set a goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2 and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.” Yet in August of this year, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new assessment report that starkly illustrated the world’s collective failure to meet that target. Delegates from across the globe have just met in Glasgow for the international climate summit known as COP26, with the hope of strengthening commitments to keep emissions targets at that 1.5 degree level.
After two weeks of negotiations, presentations and protests in Glasgow, COP26 is a wrap. This week we discuss what was achieved - and what wasn’t - at the summit.
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Guests:
Vanessa Nakate, Ugandan climate activist
Jiang Lin, Adjunct Professor, University of California Berkeley
Albert Cheung, Head of Global Analysis, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
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