United Nations, every mention
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every year anyone Stephen Lacey 9Rick Needham 1Raphael Brose 1Dr. Melissa Lott 1David Roberts 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where United Nations comes up
The tape that led to a fusion breakthrough
- ▶ 14:54 Rick Needham It's like a mini UN, right?
How to triple renewables by 2030
- ▶ 1:40 Stephen Lacey As the latest UN Climate Summit begins, there's a proposal on the table to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030.
- ▶ 3:06 Stephen Lacey We're gearing up for the big UN climate talks in Dubai, and while these
As debate over carbon removal swirls, America steps up funding
- ▶ 4:35 Stephen Lacey The IPCC is the UN body of international scientists that informs how the UNFCCC considers the policy framework for cutting emissions.
- ▶ 6:31 Stephen Lacey A UN panel's dismissal of carbon dioxide removal has raised concerns within the industry.
- ▶ 15:09 Stephen Lacey Whatever happens with the negotiations around UN language, and it surely will change, countries are stepping up, and America has jumped into CDR in a major way.
What’s the next big trend in clean energy?
- ▶ 35:19 David Roberts It looks pretty clear that we're not going to hit our 1.5 degree target that, uh, we all agreed on in the UN, not at least through the replacement of fossil fuels with, with clean energy, uh, alone.
The Big Switch: California’s climate czar on banning gas cars
- ▶ 25:31 Dr. Melissa Lott And I'm thinking about your work with UN and other organizations about not just what's going to happen in California, but what's going to happen beyond California as a result of a rule like this.
A breakout year for carbon removal?
- ▶ 12:13 Raphael Brose So, if I recall my UN science appropriately, we need probably 10 gigatons, that's ten billion tons per year of carbon removal in, say, twenty-fifty.
Drought is surfacing lost relics around the world
- ▶ 1:20 Stephen Lacey The UN estimates the drought frequency has increased by a third since the year 2000, and, well, it's only getting worse.
Why ‘maladaptation’ is getting so much attention
- ▶ 1:29 Stephen Lacey Last month brought another UN climate report.
- ▶ 3:57 Stephen Lacey Shipper is a researcher at the University of Oxford, and she's a lead author on last month's UN Climate Report.
How the Glasgow climate deal nearly collapsed
- ▶ 0:08 Stephen Lacey Last Saturday, after two weeks of negotiations in Glasgow, the UN climate talks wrapped up, and the head of this year's COP meeting was getting ready to close a deal between a 197 countries.