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Transcript Zero Episode 13: Can Climate Change Be Solved Without COP?

Read a transcript of the conversation between podcast host Akshat Rathi and former UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa.

Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, speaks during the opening day of the COP26.
Photographer: Emily Macinnes/Bloomberg

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By Akshat Rathi and Oscar Boyd

November 14, 2022 at 3:19 PM UTC

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For Episode 13 of the Zero podcast, Bloomberg Green reporter Akshat Rathi interviewed Patricia Espinosa, who until August 2022 was the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), the body charged with organizing the annual COP climate conferences. Espinosa tells Zero what goes on behind the scenes at COP to get 200 participating member states to agree, and why the global platform is vital for making progress on climate issues. Akshat also sits down with Bloomberg West Africa Bureau Chief Yinka Ibukun to talk about who will pay for the green transition in Africa.

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