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Christiana Figueres

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2023-12-04

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1. “Nations who came together in 2015 to adopt, sign, and then bring into legal standing the Paris Agreement. So same nations. Now some years later, what is it, eight years later, coming together again? And this will happen every year. So COP28 in Dubai is first surprising, I would say, because this is an effort to control greenhouse gas emissions and set guardrails for the evolution of the global economy along decarbonizing path. And so it is perhaps quite surprising that it takes place in an oil and gas exporting country. And there has been much discussion about that, whether it even”

   2023-12-04 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 49. Christiana Figueres: COP28, Costa Rica, and surviving the climate crisis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “Okay, well, those are about seven questions, each of which would take about three and a half hours to answer. But let me start by saying thank you very much, Rory and Alistair, for inviting me on. You did introduce me as a Costa Rican diplomat. I am probably the most undiplomatic diplomat you've ever met in any event. Here we are. Yes, the beginning of the COP in Dubai is COP28. First of all, what is COP? COP is actually an acronym. And I hope it's the only acronym we're going to use in this conversation, but it is an acronym that stands for Conference of the Parties. It is the annual meeting of parties, as they are called, which are the national governments that are part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. And it was these names.”

   2023-12-04 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 49. Christiana Figueres: COP28, Costa Rica, and surviving the climate crisis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source