Welcome to the Green Alliance podcast. We are the charity and think tank that is all about achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.

I'm Holly Rowden, a policy advisor at Green Alliance, and in this episode, we're discussing the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow,

also known as COP 26, which stands for 26th Conference of the Parties. For nearly three

decades, the United Nations has brought together world leaders, negotiators, government representatives,

businesses and citizens for global climate summits called COPS to track progress on tackling climate change.

Back in 2015, world leaders signed the Paris Agreement,

aiming to limit global temperature rises as close as possible to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels

and avoid the most severe impacts of the climate crisis.

Last year, it was the UK's turn to host the summit, together with Italy.

Delayed by the pandemic, this COP had a particular sense of urgency.

The next decade will be crucial in cutting greenhouse gas emissions and transforming our economies.

Today I'm talking to Camilla Bourne. Currently, she is an advisor to the UK

COP presidency, seconded from the climate think tank E3G. The way we build our infrastructure

needs to look different. It means the way that we train our young people needs to look different.

Things need to change and adapt for the new reality where the weather is more chaotic, more severe,

and things that you and I and those listening grew up with will not look exactly the same.

She was right to the heart of the action in Glasgow.

Hi Camilla, thank you for joining us today. Going into COP 26, what did the UK want to achieve?

What were the sort of key issues on the table?

Cops are very strange animals.

No one knows quite what to do with them.

In one way people think this is the place that we solve climate change in one go, right?

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