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our legislation is based on the ipcc _ this goal?? our legislation is based on the ipcc report from _ this goal? our legislation is based on the ipcc report from 2019 - this goal? our legislation is based on the ipcc report from 2019 to i this goal? our legislation is based | on the ipcc report from 2019 to 1.5 degrees, and one of the things that reported was was disaggregated the different gases in terms of their impact on global warming. what they obviously said was that fossil methane is, the methane associated with the fossil fuel industry, barely needs to come to zero because thatis barely needs to come to zero because that is what is taking in the lithosphere and the ground and putting it into the atmosphere, they said biogenic methane associated with both agriculture and waste has to decline but at a shallower rate and so we actually use the ipcc range, about 24 to 47%, as our target for 2050. range, about 24 to 4796, as our target for 2050.— target for 2050. you need to do better, target for 2050. you need to do better. don't

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here in glasgow, we have 65% of global gdp committed to real plans that have been certified by the ipcch nations who have never even consider having the what coal in a plan, but it remains, even today after what took place, coal and the phase darren cole is on the books. it is part of the decision. —— the phase down coal. and you have to phase down coal. and you have to phase down coal. and you have to phase down coal before you can enter coal. so, this is a beginning or something. i think we always knew that glasgow was not the finish line, and anybody who thought it was doesn't understand the chance that we have. glasgow was never going to be that we were going to come to glasgow and everybody was going to have a decision that was somehow going to end the crisis. are automatically put us on the path we have to go. so i would say that, paris about the arena and glasgow starts the race. and tonight, the starting gun was fired. and we have about nine years within which to make those critical decisions. we were warned about them in 2018 by the ipcc, and we have in this decade, the decisiv

>> the ipcc report in august was a wake-up call for all of us.t made clear that the lights are flashing red on the climate dashboard. amy: the u.n. climate summit has oh and in glasgow, scotland. it's being called the last hope to tackle the climate emergency.

the ipcc says by 2030 we would need to cut emissions by about 45% before continuing to get into the net zero gold by the middle of the century. that is not happening yet. world leaders are not putti in the. policies needed to achieve this. even if we are seeing some positive steps taken today. brent: reporting tonight with the latest from the u.n. climate conference in glasgow, scotland. thank you. in another announcement, more than 100 countries have agreed to and deforestation by the year 2030. the pledge has been backed by countries that are home to more than 85% of the earth's forest. campaigners warn that agreements in the past have failed. it also permits 10 -- a decade of habitat destruction. >> this is the kind of devastation world leaders want to avoid in the future. >> they have made a landmark commitment to work together to reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030. reverse. that means a more leaders than ever before have now signed up to protect our forests. from countries to the north and the south with nations like china, russia, brazil, some of the largest forest

>> the ipcc report in august was a wake-up call for all of us. it made clear that the lights are flashing red on the climate dashboard. amy: the u.n. climate summit has oh and in glasgow, scotland. it's being called the last hope to tackle the climate emergency. >> i want to see enough of the action. amy: we will speak to leading climate activists in england and scotland a look at how this year's climate summit may be the whitest and most privileged one ever with thousands from the global south unable to attend because of lack of access to covid vaccines and these issues. we will go to mozambique to speak to a long time climate campaigner who had to stay home plus we will look at the shocking future. torture of a former u.s. resident and cia black sites. military jurors who heard him testify at guantanamo say his treatment as a stain on the moral fiber of america. -- is a stain on the moral fiber of america. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. world leaders and activists have arrived in glasgow s

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the recent ipcc report gave us a clear diagnosis of the scale of the problem. with a growing global population creating ever increasing demand on the planet's finite resources we have to reduce emissions urgently and take action to tackle the carbon already in the atmosphere, including from coal—fired power stations. putting a value on carbon, thus making carbon capture solutions more economical, is therefore absolutely critical. similarly after billions of years of evolution, nature is our best teacher, in this regard restoring natural capital, accelerating nature —based solutions and leveraging the circular bio economy will be vital to our efforts. as we tackle this crisis our efforts cannot be a series of independent initiatives running in parallel. the scale and scope of the threat we face call for a global systems level solution based on radically transforming our current fossil fuel based economy to one thatis fossil fuel based economy to one that is genuinely renewable and sustainable. so, ladies and gentlemen, my plea today is for countries to come toge

the ipcc, the big global _ what will that look like?ifference between 1.5 and two is really quite stark in many areas, in terms of the impact it will have on corals, on melting arctic ice, for example. sea—level rise. it is undeniable that the mantra of keep 1.5 alive that we've been heeding campaigners on the street here and in the halls, that really matters to many vulnerable communities around the world. it is the difference between survival in some situations and low—lying island states, for example. even 1.5 degrees is not really enough, to be honest. , ., ., honest. lets look at the draft agreement — honest. lets look at the draft agreement and _ honest. lets look at the draft agreement and what - honest. lets look at the draft agreement and what we i honest. lets look at the draft| agreement and what we know honest. lets look at the draft i agreement and what we know about honest. lets look at the draft - agreement and what we know about it so far. 6ive agreement and what we know about it so far. give us your assessment and what

ipcc that says just 5% of force populations exist of indigenous communities have reserved more than canyou percent -- pound. there the most important stakeholders that have been ignored at cop26. >> hello. my community is suffering from the oil industry since before i was even born. that is the reality of many, many indigenous and amazonian communities in ecuador and other amazonian countries. but i want to talk about how is this even possible. how is it even possible that we have every year more concessions and how we every year can see more oil platforms being built in the amazon? it is only possible because there are people financing that. in the same people that are perpetuating this violence on our lands at the same ones having the negotiations over there in that building at cop. we need to start talking about this. behind every murder that happens in the amazon or happens -- where every killing that happens to land offender, there's a company behind that. there's a government behind that. there is a name behind that. u.s. and european banks are every day financing and investing in

so the issue really is, as the ipcc has pointed out, if you add all the emissions from the historicalectic you much of into account, we only have something like 500 gigatons of carbon space left. this means at the current emission trend, we will exhaust this carbon budget for limiting temperature rise to 1.5 with a 50% chance. and that itself is a problem. amy: let me clarify something. the number has always been 1.5 degrees celsius, which is 2.7 degrees fahrenheit. scientists have set of global warming must be kept to this, about preindustrial levels. but i thought what had come out now is the international energy agency reported thursday that warming could be limited to 1.8 degrees celsius about preindustrial levels by 2100. >> they were referring to the methane and other initiatives and cooling and so on and have come to 1.8. i have not seen the details of the report, but i think what need to recognize, amy, is the fact that whether it is 1.8 or 1.5 or even 2 degrees, with the push for net zero by 2050 by all countries -- and this is being pushed by the u.n. top level down to the u

nermeen: in august, the ipcc report was quite staggering in s warning aut what the world will face ifremely swift and large-scale actions are not needed. the u.n. secreta-general called this report code red for humanity. you have attended 23 of the 25 cops. what have you seen change as the urgency of the situation has so manifestly grown? >> it is 24 out of 26. what has changed for me is a huge amount of energy, a huge appetite for change and demand for action coming from our young people, from our indigenous people, from women, from workers from around the world. and that is being stymied, stopped, and it is not coming into the energy that is needed -- today is energy day. the energy we need is political energy because it is really the politicians who are behind the science. the politicians are listening and in the pocket sometimes of the vested interest that i spoke about, the fossil fuel industry, large agribusiness. i think that is what has shifted here is that realization that we have to act together, and these corporations, those who are most powerful, especially the g20 countri

in all of our scenarios and the ipcc scenarios that what we know about climate change that rely on the or so-called nature-based solutions, which are also equally dangerous, removing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the future, so that is incredibly dangerous reliance. when it comes to china, china's very high emitter, we all know it is the largest emitter in the globe, but they do have a population of about 1.3 billion people. emissions per capita are still a little over one third of the u.s.. we put a lot of responsibility on china sayin look at high ambitions. they do burn a lot of coal but we needed to be burned so we can smelt and make a notebook out of it. look at the equipment we are using. we blame them because they're using lots of high carbon energy to reduce the materials. it is true china has to move away from those, move away from its rich embedded fossil fuel industry and has the potential to do that -- probably more than other parts of the world -- because they're good at making rapid shifts in technology, but we must not continue to blame china these manufactured goo

have about nine years within which to make those critical decisions we were warned about in 20 by the ipcc, and we have the years in this decade, the decisive decade, in order to cut 45% of global emissions to hold onto the 1.5. amy: he was secretary of state at the paris agreement under obama. your response, brandon wu? >> that glasgow was the starting gun a climate action? it just erases 2.5 decades of rich country and action. we had been at these negotiations for 26 years. and for 26 years, wealthy countries like the united states have failed to reduce our emissions even though we know that is what we must do to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis. what kerry is doing is erasing history, erasing a history of climate loan realism in which the united states is the primary -- amy: can you talk about this nice virtual summit that is planned between the chinese leader in the u.s. later, between biden x andi and what you want to see happen? >> i want to see cooperation and solidarity. i want to see the united states making clear we are willing to take the steps to do our fair share

the ipcc report that just landed about climate change in august noted that methane was one of those importantf air pollution in terms of less ozone production. the u.s. playing leadership role there, obviously aiming to come back and brng that home in terms of policy in the administration. that's one clear place. obviously the role for the united states in thinking about that climate finance mechanism important with john kerry noting that the united states is ready to discuss their role in shaping what that agreement might look like in terms of the low income countries' demands. >> grateful for your help in understanding all this, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >>> up next another covid winter is just ahead. what it means probably depends a lot on where you live. ... ♪ and a new seat at the table. ♪ [uplifting music playing] ♪ i had a dream that someday ♪ ♪ i would just fly, fly away ♪ there's a different way to treat hiv. it's once-monthly injectable cabenuva. cabenuva is the only once-a-month, complete hiv treatment for adults who are undetectable. cabenuva helps keep me undetectable.

ipcc recent report said it is responsible for about half of the warming we have experienced so for commonduced warming that we have experience. it's incredibly potent. it's also not as persistent in the atmosphere as c02. so in terms of the bang for your buck if you reduce these may theme emissions, relatively easy to do, plugging leaks and covering landfill sites, you get more return for your investment for pets and easier when then c02 which is just locked into so much for our process and how we run the country. low hanging fruit, ursula von der leyen said. exactly that. when it comes to what's on the agenda at cop26, any low hanging fruit, any easy wind on climate change, we talked a lot yesterday about bending that curve, curbing those methane emissions could bend that curve by about 0.2 degrees, that curve by about 0.2 degrees, that gets us to 2.5, not too close to that 1.5 target we talked about so much, but it's an easy wind and there are not many in climate change. it there are not many in climate chance. , , , ., , change. it begs the question, why has it not been _ change. it be

here in glasgow, we have 65% of global gdp committed to real plans that have been certified by the ipccalive. you do all those things you can keep 1.5 degrees alive-— degrees alive. you play a crucial role tomorrow _ degrees alive. you play a crucial role tomorrow because - degrees alive. you play a crucial| role tomorrow because president biden and the chinese president are in a virtual summit on monday. i should say. these days blend into one another at this late stage of the night. the low—lying island countries and small economy blocks have been pushing hard for more money from rich nations to help them deal with everything from transitioning to clean energy to recovering from climate driven disasters. 0ne envoy said the deal did not go far enough and expressed her dismay at the softening of the language at the death. it her dismay at the softening of the language at the death.— her dismay at the softening of the language at the death. it was a real blow. we language at the death. it was a real blow- we have _ language at the death. it was a real blow. we have been _ language at the

dan lunt, professor of climate science at the university of bristol and a lead author of the recent ipcc and also i'm joined by yamide dagnet, director of climate negotiations at the world resources institute. dan, we've had thisjoint declaration from the united states and china tonight. is it good news that at least those two seem to be in some senses singing from the same hymns7 in some senses singing from the same h mns? , , ., ., ., hymns? yes, my initial reaction to this statement _ hymns? yes, my initial reaction to this statement is _ hymns? yes, my initial reaction to this statement is that _ hymns? yes, my initial reaction to this statement is that is _ this statement is that is encouraging. there has onlyjust come out. we have to assess that statement carefully. there are some encouraging things that we will be collaborating on. china said it will accelerate its transition away from coal and they will be working together to cut methane, but perhaps most importantly, thisjoint most importantly, this joint statement most importantly, thisjoint statement might be the sort of moral

i would say bp focused on the landmark ipcc study in 1996. and in 1997 our then ceo john brown acknowledged the scientific community -- >> i want to break in right here. research shows that between 2010 and 2018, only 2.3% of your investments per capital expenditures went to low carbon energies is that true? >> yes, sir, it's true, but what i would say is that -- >> and isn't it also true, mr. lawler, that bp earned $183.5 billion in 2020? >> i'd have to check that figure. i know in -- >> that means you could not tell me how much of that $183.5 billion was reinvested in clean energy production? >> are you speaking to revenue or profits? that number seems -- >> you would know better than i. >> well -- >> you actually profited $183.5 billion in 2020. >> we had replacement profit. >> my >> well, my question is, how much of that was reinvested in clean energy? >> so in the last two years we've spent two billion dollars on clean energy projects -- >> two billion out of 183.5 billion? for the people suffering from the impacts of wildfires, floods a

we already see from the latest ipcc report that claimant is accelerating.ause as we've seen - emissions. green technology is also critical because as we've seen overl critical because as we�*ve seen over the last few months, there�*s been severe volatility in the fossil, gas and coal markets, and this is incredibly expensive for developing countries as well. it�*s also good for the economy and the environment. i have to leave that there because everything is truncated after the president, but thank you for your patience. lots of new announcements, the methane deforestation, the technology announcements are very important, as well. but listening to mick before he went tojoe biden, but he sees is the most significant thing is the north and south coming together to set ambition and the two weeks going forward. he thinks that�*s quite a sizeable statement they�*ve made in the last hour, maybe we�*ll get more of that later in the evening. studio: thanks for the full update from glasgow. if you�*re watching and want further information on the issues christian was

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he contributed to the august ipcc report and was part of ipcc virtual news conference.n dioxide being l for my worth carbon dioxide being the primary greenhouse gas but methane is the second most important greenhouse gas warming planet and is omitted through fossil fuel extraction and also from cows and sheep and from agriculture so cutting methane emissions is a critical aspect of what we need to do if we are to stop global warming. i understand that methane packs a bigger punch when it comes to warming our planet but does not hang around in our atmosphere familiar as long as c02 —— for nearly as long. so we need to get a quick result. we need so we need to get a quick result. - need to cut methane emissions but c02 will be the dominant factor because it class and the atmosphere —— it lasts in the atmosphere for a very long time. if we cut methane emissions we improve air quality. by cutting methane we improve the area we are breathing and it will save thousands, millions of lives around the world. we thousands, millions of lives around the world. ~ ., ., . ., the worl

bp focused on the landmark ipcc study in 1996. and in 1997 our then ceo john brown acknowledged the scientific community. >> i want to break in right here. research shows that between 2010 and 2018, only 2.3% of your investments per capital expenditures went to low carbon energies is that true? >> yes, sir, it's true, but what i would say is that -- >> and isn't it also true, mr. lawler, that bp earned $183.5 billion in 2020? >> i'd have to check that figure. i know in -- >> that means you could not tell me how much of that $183.5 billion was reinvested in clean energy production? >> are you speaking to revenue or profits? that number seems -- >> you would know better than i. >> well -- >> you actually profited $183.5 billion in 2020. >> well, we had something called a replacement cost profit around 4 to $5 billion in 2020. >> my question is how much of that was reinvested in clean energy production. >> so in the last two years, we have spent $2 billion on clean energy projects. >> $2 billion out of $183.5 billion, for the people

the bad news is the ipcc now their bestat estimate is three degrees centigrade.so that's another 1.9 or almost two full degrees centigrade from where we are now with all of the things we have heard in the last two hours from my fellow members of congress. that range is 2 1/2 to 4.0 centigrades and it will break the 1.5 mark between 2025 and 2037. what can the national weather service do now to get ready for more dramatic weathernt events, ever more dramatic changes in the ability to forecast what's coming? >> well, i can say that we are certainly aware of the increasing vulnerability, i would call it increasing vulnerability, that our communities are facing with respect to these extreme events. whether it's the coastline, winter storms, hurricanes, whether it's inland with droughts. the flash droughts that are now becoming more prevalent. the heat, we talked about northwest part of this country. there were heat events this year that rivalled what you see in phoenix. okay? it's really -- it's really stark. and, of course, the fires burning faster and hotter and im