The world needs climate leadership. Can Azerbaijan step up?
Zero: The Climate Race
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🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Zero is in Baku, Azerbaijan, where delegates and heads of state from around the world have gathered for COP29. Can a petrostate make a summit on decarbonization a success? And how much will the election of President Trump damage the US’s credibility on climate– and set negotiations back? Akshat Rathi tells producer Mythili Rao what’s in store in the two weeks ahead, and COP29 President Mukhtar Babyaev explains how Azerbaijan is trying to make the summit a success, despite concerns that NGOs and protesters will have limited access to the proceedings. Plus, Columbia University’s Jason Bordoff explains how the US’s role in climate diplomacy is about to change.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Zero. I am Akshatrati. This week, kicking off COP29. |
| 0:15.6 | So my first impressions of COP is that it reminds me of Thinking day, this Girl Scout gathering we used to do in |
| 0:21.3 | like the school gymnasium where every brownie troop had to pick a different country and represent it |
| 0:26.0 | with some food, a little poster, with some information about the country that you were in charge of |
| 0:32.4 | and you sort of wind around the gym all day. Well, this is what COP is like. It's just that |
| 0:36.6 | the countries are spending millions of, and it's adults rather than |
| 0:41.2 | Girl Scouts making it. |
| 0:42.9 | And some of the pavilions are pretty spot on. |
| 0:45.4 | The UK had a big red phone booth, very recognizable. |
| 0:50.1 | Cheesy, I guess, for us, but I like the Kyrgyzstan Pavilion. |
| 0:54.1 | It had a really nice |
| 0:55.7 | mountain tent, cozy from the inside, and very pretty. Kazakhstan also a good showing, these beautiful |
| 1:04.0 | rugs draped across the place and some pottery, some ceramics. You missed the headline. Next to Kazakhstan is the United States Pavilion, |
| 1:13.6 | and it's the plainest pavilion there is. |
| 1:16.1 | It's almost as if they are preparing that Donald Trump is going to come back to power |
| 1:20.0 | and pull the U.S. out of the U.N. treaty. |
| 1:23.3 | The mood does seem to be a little bit somber at the U.S. Pavilion. |
| 1:29.4 | Zero is in Azerbaijan in Baku for the 29th Conference of the Parties, |
| 1:34.6 | the annual climate summit that brings together heads of state and delegations from around the world |
| 1:39.3 | for two weeks of intense discussions and hopefully major breakthroughs. |
| 1:46.1 | If you heard the recent episode we did with Avinaj Prasad, Special Advisor on Climate |
| 1:50.1 | Change for the Inter-American Development Bank, you know that this year's cop is finance |
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