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Inside COP26 with Abby Martin

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🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Preview of Abby's report-back from the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow. For the full 75-minute episode join our community at https://www.patreon.com/empirefiles FOLLOW // twitter.com/EmpireFiles MERCH // www.empirefiles.store

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Abby Martin.

0:09.6

And Mike Prysner. So it's been a couple weeks since we gave you guys a podcast. It's because we've been traveling internationally. We were in Scotland for the Conference of Parties, COP, 26th year of several countries getting together to discuss climate treaties, non-binding, of course.

0:31.3

These are the climate negotiations that have been ongoing for a little less than 30 years now.

0:36.9

With no real tangible action on the ground.

0:40.3

Mike, you know, in light of doing Earth's greatest enemy, we felt like it was imperative

0:45.2

for us to go because this was the biggest negotiation since the Paris Accords in 2015.

0:53.1

And even though these happen every year, this was a really

0:55.7

significant one, especially because Trump had, you know, removed the U.S. from the Paris agreements.

1:03.3

And so this was kind of the first America's back. This is when America got back, baby. This is

1:08.7

back in full swing, back in full force, build back better.

1:13.5

So we felt like we needed to go and be a part of history and make waves. And holy shit, I would say

1:21.1

that we did a pretty good job, Mike, of doing just that. So why don't you talk a little bit more

1:26.5

about about what it was like when we got there

1:30.1

and I guess why you felt like it was important that we went as well. Definitely made some waves,

1:36.8

Abby. Definitely the only journalist there that was asking confrontational questions to people there.

1:43.4

People may have seen Abby's's great question to Nancy Pelosi,

1:47.9

to AOC, to Democratic Party governors who were supposed to be the top leaders in climate change

1:54.0

among the governors. And we're going to talk about all of those incidents as we get into this.

1:59.1

But we just wanted to say from the outset that those are things

2:01.1

that we released because they were just, first of all, cop already broadcast all of their press

2:06.7

conferences. And so other media had access to that video footage, except for the question to AOC that

2:12.1

we released also. But we released those before the film because we just thought they were so important to get out right away.

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