Episode 27: COP26 and Net Zero Greenwashing

EU Watchdog Radio

Corporate Europe Observatory and Counter Balance

News, Politics

5 • 1 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this new episode of EU Watchdog Radio we take the temperature of the international Climate conference COP26, that started this week in Glasgow. Activist Greta Thunberg is right by saying and sometime shouting the word ‘Greenwashing’ all over Glasgow. While COP26 in Glasgow was branded by the UK government as the COP where the world should take historic decisions, it seems the UK government has been putting up a gigantic greenwashing PR -show. Government and climate policy by announce...

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0:00.0	You're listening.
0:06.0	You're listening to EU, man on the moon, motion.
0:25.2	You're listening to EU Watchdog Radio.
0:31.0	Welcome to a new episode of EU Watchdog Radio.
0:37.0	My name is Hans Van Schager, media officer at Corporate Europe Observatory, also known as CEO. It is early November 2021, and the International Climate Conference COP26 has started in Glasgow.
0:45.3	We have seen a parade of political and business leaders literally flying in their private jets
0:51.3	to then take the floor and declare how urgent climate action really is.
0:56.0	To then fly off again in their private jets, on their way to save the world and especially our children's future.
1:04.0	Right?
1:05.0	Um, not really.
1:07.0	Activist Greta Toonberg is right by saying and sometimes even shouting the word greenwashing all over Glasgow.
1:15.9	Because while COP 26 in Glasgow was branded by the UK government as the COP where the world should take historic decisions,
1:24.0	it seems the same UK government has been putting up a gigantic greenwashing PR show.
1:29.8	Government and climate policy by announcement.
1:33.6	Well, that might not be what you have read in the papers or seen on your television news, right?
1:39.9	In this episode of EU Watchdog Radio, we therefore talk to three CEO researchers who have just
1:46.0	before or during this COP26 published new and relevant research.
1:51.0	Kenneth Haar has just published research on the huge influence of the financial sector on parts of the international climate policy.
1:59.0	The Paris Climate Agreement stated that financial flows should be consistent with a pathway
2:05.6	towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate resilient development.
2:11.3	While this crucial issue will be addressed for the first time by the international community
2:15.6	at COP26, the agenda and proposals
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