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Akshat Rathi

Senior Climate Reporter, Bloomberg News · 1 appearance on the record.

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Akshat Rathi covers global climate policy, clean technology, and the energy transition for Bloomberg News, hosting the weekly Zero podcast and authoring the Zero newsletter. He is the author of Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions and holds a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Oxford.

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3 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Akshat argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Rathi: US and China originated the COP26 'phase down' coal language
“And that two or three page document that Came on Wednesday was what then set the tone for the deal to happen on the Saturday, and in that deal is where we had the language around phase down of coal, and that's the language that eventually made it into the fina…”
Akshat Rathi Nov 19, 2021 ▶ 12:50 How the Glasgow climate deal nearly collapsed

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Assertion Supported
Rathi: US and China originated the COP26 'phase down' coal language
“And that two or three page document that Came on Wednesday was what then set the tone for the deal to happen on the Saturday, and in that deal is where we had the language around phase down of coal, and that's the language that eventually made it into the fina…”
Akshat Rathi Nov 19, 2021 ▶ 12:50 How the Glasgow climate deal nearly collapsed
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Rathi: India, China, and US aligned to change 'phase out' to 'phase down'
“You know, in the last hours of negotiation on Saturday, there was a fight between India, China, and the U.S. On one side, and all the other countries on the other side to try and change one word from phase out to phase down.”
Akshat Rathi Nov 19, 2021 ▶ 7:37 How the Glasgow climate deal nearly collapsed
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Rathi: Saudi Arabia pushed for UNFCCC consensus rule, blocking fossil fuel mentions
“When the framework that created COP meetings called the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was put together back in 1992, Saudi Arabia was among the countries that objected To make sure that the process is by consensus rather than by superma…”
Akshat Rathi Nov 19, 2021 ▶ 14:30 How the Glasgow climate deal nearly collapsed

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Appearances (1)

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How the Glasgow climate deal nearly collapsed Nov 19, 2021 8m
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