What is COP? - The Climate Question, BBC World Service

It's the world's biggest and most controversial climate conference. But what is a COP and how do they work? Jordan Dunbar investigates.
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To help get some simple answers to simple questions, Jordan is joined by climate experts:
Dr Mosunda Mumba, Secretary General of the Wetlands Convention
Professor David Victor of Innovation and Public Policy University of California, San Diego, USA
Adil Najim, Professor of International Relations and Environment at Boston University's Pardee school in the United States.
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0:00 Introduction
0:34 What is COP?
0:45 The world's first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro 1992
2:00 How the IPCC was created
3:00 The start of COP
3:45 Who organises COPs
4:10 How countries make pledges at COP
5:40 What's it like at a COP?
6:25 Who will be at COP28 in Dubai?
11:50 How to measure progress
12:28 Why should we care about what happens at COP?
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Love From Bangladesh ❤

[@Rajan-tf9kz]

Greenhouse gases is a misnomer, redhouse gases more accurate. High Albedo reflection at high frequency is reflected back into redhouse while a terrestrial greenhouse would let it through. Also terrestrial greenhouse does not allow escape of long wave infrared, while the redhouse gases allow.

[@chris4973]

How they work… or DON’T… The latter deserves much more attention

[@WarriorGirl_113]

COP is a waste of time... example, how many years have they been getting together to talk about we should be doing then don't do it.

[@chris4973]

Ever heard of regulatory capture? What does one call it when the head of a National oil company heads a climate summit? (Oh, we already had a term for that. What was it? Regulatory capture)

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By deception

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[@fintamaria2429]

At this Conference the Lords of Food gathered, Lords of the earth's resources that belong to all of us and our children and we smile at them and let them continue to make billions!!!!WOW great game 😢😢😢

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Could you please change that noisy BDM?