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You can take your mask off and it is often in places like this that small, informal groups of negotiators will get together to try to crank the hardest questions like getting aid to the poorest nations who are hit hardest by climate change. ive seen for myself how droughts and other extremes of weather can devastate the nations least able to cope. there was a promise of assistance more than a decade ago but it still hasnt been fulfilled. the faith in the international process, it becomes a littl...

And we can now speak to the climate scientist who will be attending cop26 next week. i believe you are headed to glasgow soon. we believe you are headed to glasgow soon.— believe you are headed to glasaow soon. ~ . . ., , glasgow soon. we are certainly caettin glasgow soon. we are certainly getting close- _ glasgow soon. we are certainly getting close. in _ glasgow soon. we are certainly getting close. in many - glasgow soon. we are certainly getting close. in many ways, i getting close. in ma...

Seen and experienced in 2021. extreme floods, fires, droughts and record temperatures across the u.s. and around the world. proof, scientists say, were already living in a climate crisis. >> its here. i mean, its upon us. people see that. people feel that. >> reporter: tom stern led u.s. climate negotiations through the obama administration and helped forge 2015s paris agreement. that breakthrough document includes a critical promise. all countries will work to keep the global average temperatur...

To keep _ warming. and we know that the window to keep a _ warming. and we know that the window to keep a 15— warming. and we know that the window to keep a 1.5 degrees within reach is closing — to keep a 1.5 degrees within reach is closing i— to keep a 1.5 degrees within reach is closing. i have been humbled to speak— is closing. i have been humbled to speak over— is closing. i have been humbled to speak over this year with communities devastated by climate change _ communities devast...

Lot of the poorer nations _ thats what the science says. and a lot of the poorer nations in - thats what the science says. and a lot of the poorer nations in the - lot of the poorer nations in the developing world, they feel aggrieved, dont they? they feel that wealthier nations have not lived, and they have not lived up to, we know that for a fact, commitments made on finance and on other areas to help these poor countries adapt to climate change to protect themselves and allow them to transiti...

Most vulnerable and we acknowledged that this was a planetary problem that this was a planetary problem that no country could go alone. yet since paris, it has rained for the first time on greenland summit. the amount of c02 in the atmosphere has reached record levels. heat waves have scorched countries around the world. droughts, storms, forest fires and floods have all become more intense, more recurrent and more intense, more recurrent and more commonplace. and sea levels are rising threateni...

Subject of the most recent intergovernmental report. what are the key conclusions that you would like to highlight?— like to highlight? there are a coule like to highlight? there are a coople of _ like to highlight? there are a coople of key _ like to highlight? there are a couple of key conclusions. i like to highlight? there are a l couple of key conclusions. the like to highlight? there are a - couple of key conclusions. the first is that the climate change we experience today is unpreceden...

Months to the climate. i it was a privilege to devote four months to the climate.- it was a privilege to devote four months to the climate. i am walking with my children _ months to the climate. i am walking with my children and _ months to the climate. i am walking with my children and my _ with my children and my grandchildren, and i am demanding for them a good climate. the teenager— for them a good climate. the teenager greta _ for them a good climate. the teenager greta thunberg arrived i...

Procrastination. not only have we acknowledge the problem, we are already seeing first—hand the devastation climate change causes, from heatwaves and droughts and wildfires and hurricanes. and unlike many other global challenges, the solution to climate change is clear, it lies in consigning dirty fossil fuels like coal to history, in ditching gas guzzling modes of transport and recognising the role that nature plays in preserving life on this planet and harnessing the power of nature through ...

Coal companies are subsidized to the tune of $11 million a minute. thats both in, you know, tax breaks. its in giving them money to keep gas prices low. but its in what they dont pay for the pollution that makes people sick and kills them prematurely or the storms and the droughts and the floods that are as a result of all of this burning. so whats interesting on thursday, some of the democrats on the house oversight committee led by ro khanna, they called in the heads of the big oil companies, ...