A Last Chance to Avert Climate Disaster?

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🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In a giant conference hall in Glasgow, leaders from around the world have gathered for the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Convention, or COP26. This is the 26th such session. Many say this may be the last chance to avoid climate disaster. Will anything change this time? Guest: Somini Sengupta, the international climate reporter for The New York Times.

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0:28.4	From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow.
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0:39.8	Today, hundreds of heads of state have gathered in Scotland for what they say may be their last
0:50.9	real chance to avoid a climate disaster.
0:55.6	I spoke with my colleague, Samimi Sengutta, about whether they're right and if global climate
1:02.4	talks like these ever really accomplish anything.
1:10.6	It's Wednesday, November 3rd.
1:26.5	Hi.
1:28.5	Hey, Samimi.
1:29.5	I was rushing from one end of this giant conference center to this quiet corner where I'm at.
1:35.4	I got stuck in a scrum with, I think, John Kerry coming out.
1:43.5	Then I got stuck in another scrum with, I think it was Prince Charles, but I'm not really
1:49.1	sure.
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