Climate Change - Is the US Back?

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Bi ation is back after the u's been absent a for four years. How credible are us climate efforts when it spends more than a year on defense rather than kind of on offence? Gregg, last time we spoke, i think i said that the us. Was a bit less credible hen than i would have liked. But look, the us. Showed up for cop 26. Dozens of political leaders, john carey worked incredibly hard for the two weeks that he was there. And i think it did show that the us Is back, that it wants to engage, and it wants to lead.

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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