How do you negotiate a good climate deal?

As a new play depicts the landmark global climate change
agreement, the Kyoto protocol, Jordan Dunbar has a front row
seat. He heads to the historic English town of
Stratford-Upon-Avon to watch the opening night of the play,
Kyoto, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. He hears why the
writers, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson decided to dramatize the
seemingly slow and tedious action of a global climate change
conference. And the duo explain their goal to highlight Kyoto as
a ‘parable of agreement’ in a world full of disagreement.


The programme also hears from two veterans of many real world
climate change negotiations, including the Kyoto Protocol, the
first global agreement to set legally binding targets. Christiana
Figueres was responsible for leading climate negotiations as the
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change and Farhana Yamin provided legal and strategy
advice to the leaders of AOSIS, the Alliance of Small Island
States at Kyoto and nearly every UN climate summit since.
Christiana is now the host of the 'Outrage And Optimism' podcast.


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Presenter: Jordan Dunbar Producers: Phoebe Keane and Octavia
Woodward Editor: Simon Watts Sound mix: Tom Brignell