COP29: In Donald Trump’s shadow
Can the world fight climate change without the US?
An episode of the The Global Story podcast, hosted by BBC World Service, titled "COP29: In Donald Trump’s shadow" was published on November 12, 2024 and runs 26 minutes.
November 12, 2024 ·26m · The Global Story
Summary
Can the world fight climate change without the US? Donald Trump’s election victory threatens to derail the COP29 climate talks taking place in Azerbaijan this week. The US is one of the world’s biggest sources of carbon emissions but the president-elect has called global warming a hoax, championed the oil industry and promised to withdraw from international climate agreements. On this episode, Lucy Hockings speaks to the BBC’s US climate correspondent Carl Nasman and the host of the BBC podcast The Climate Question, Graihagh Jackson.Producers: Peter Goffin, Alice Aylett Roberts and Beth Timmins Sound engineers: Jonny Baker and Ricardo McCarthyAssistant editor: Sergi Forcada FreixasSenior news editor: Sara Wadeson
Episode Description
Can the world fight climate change without the US? Donald Trump’s election victory threatens to derail the COP29 climate talks taking place in Azerbaijan this week. The US is one of the world’s biggest sources of carbon emissions but the president-elect has called global warming a hoax, championed the oil industry and promised to withdraw from international climate agreements.
On this episode, Lucy Hockings speaks to the BBC’s US climate correspondent Carl Nasman and the host of the BBC podcast The Climate Question, Graihagh Jackson.
Producers: Peter Goffin, Alice Aylett Roberts and Beth Timmins
Sound engineers: Jonny Baker and Ricardo McCarthy
Assistant editor: Sergi Forcada Freixas
Senior news editor: Sara Wadeson
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