That the accepted the lead role in german politics, despite the many crises shes faced with throughout her career. The socalled mother of germany remains highly popular. Im Claire Richardson. Welcome to the show. Leaders of the wealthiest countries have wrapped up an online summit with a pledge to supply covert nineteen vaccines and testes affordably to all the worlds people. A virtual gathering of the g. Twenty, a group hosted by saudi arabia, aims to ease worries that poor countries could be left behind. As the pandemic, a deepens, divisions between rich and poor for Climate Change and the environment are merged as the other main. A seam on day two of the summit, u. S. President donald trump defended his decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord. Meanwhile, german chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the need to help poorer countries deal with the economic fallout from the crown of virus crisis. Lets have a listen. This is Something Else that for the first time in a long time, we
His fans with tax cuts. And a belgian food designer makes edible art that will take you by surprise. But 1st we begin in london, which can appear quite gloomy in the darker days of fall and winter, but french, a Graphic Designer come in while law is trying to change that by injecting bold colors and shapes into the city. She believes strong colors, like these have a powerful impact on people. So she turns building facades, bridges, and even cross walks into a high catchers. Her style is inspired by the postmodern Italian Design Movement called memphis. Well, we met up with her in london to see how she is transforming the city. Cammy was a french designer, colorful, and playful. Mission to turn london into a more cheerful place, through geometric and colorful patterns. Just want to change a bit of the of the city by bringing a lot of bright corals on buildings. All i can from the space, like umbrage, i think, is just you dont realize the impact of corals how he does on people can meet h
Dioxide just toward its potential. If in the north sea is large enough to handle a substantial part, if not everything that comes out of your can that work will ships with c o 2, soon be going to norway to sink our climate problem under the north sea. And the technologies exist, but do they really advance climate protection . Or are we just buying time . According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we can only emit a maximum of around 330000000000 tons of c o 2. If the rising global temperature is to stay below 1. 5 degrees celsius, were currently releasing around 42000000000. 00 tonnes a year. If we carry on as before, the c o 2 budget would he used up in around 8 years by 2028 steps like closing coal fired power plants, expanding the use of Renewable Energies and switching to electric cars will cause c o 2 emissions to decrease the more ambitious, we are, the more they go down. But keeping the increase below 330000000000 tons seems a hopeless cause. And it means theyll
Including here at the g 20 to get everyone on the same page to ensure that whoever develops a vaccine 1st makes it makes it available all over the world. And in fact, Ursula Vander Lyon and the head of the w. H. O. And some other leaders have addressed a letter to the g 20 leaders. Asking them very specifically to make up a funding shortfall in a w. H. O. Program. There is 4500000000 missing at the moment, and they want this money to be able to ensure equitable, equitable distribution. And of course, while the United States has sat out, the United States has said that its on its own, perhaps now with the election of joe biden. I think that european leaders are very much hopeful they will be able to bring in the United States as well. And speaking of the United States, this is likely Donald Trumps last appearance on the world stage as u. S. President. What are the other nations going to be expecting from the outgoing american president . Well, if he even appears rumors out of washington
A michael ok welcome to the program joe biden is edging closer to the white house says the final votes are still being counted 3 days after the u. S. Election most tallies in the remaining undeclared states have swung in favor of president Donald Trumps democratic challenger. The latest figures show biden with 264 Electoral College votes ahead of President Trump with 214 in georgia where 16 electoral votes are up for grabs its an extremely tight tight tight race biden has pulled ahead of trump by just over a 1000 votes with 99 percent of votes counted at this point pennsylvania is the biggest prize yet to be decided with 20 electoral votes at stake here joe biden has just overtaken trump and is leading by a tiny margin 98 percent of votes there have now been counted in arizona votes are still being counted as we speak the a. P. News agency has called for the state for biden but most other Media Outlets have not called it yet 11 Electoral College votes are at stake there which were incl