A year to save the world

The Climate Question vor 5 Jahren

Is 2021 the make-or-break year for our environment?

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Five years ago, there was widespread celebration after world
leaders signed up to the Paris Agreement. However, despite
pledging to pursue efforts to limit global warming to just 1.5 °C
above pre-industrial levels, emissions have continued to rise.
Many are saying the COP26 conference in late 2021, where world
leaders will meet again, is a make-or-break moment to turn words
into action. What needs to be achieved? What is the cost of
failure? And where are the signs of hope for success?

Justin Rowlatt and Navin Singh Khadka talk to Laurence Tubiana,
CEO of the European Climate Foundation (ECF), who was previously
France’s climate change ambassador and special representative for
COP21, and a key architect of the landmark Paris Agreement. They
are also joined by Christiana Figuerres, who was Executive
Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) between 2010 and 2016, and Dr Emily Shuckburgh,
director of Cambridge Zero at the University of Cambridge, and
reader in environmental data science at the Department of
Computer Science and Technology.

Producer: Zak Brophy Researcher: Soila Apparicio Editor: Ravin
Sampat Sound Design: David Crackles