imposing restrictions next week will not look good to register for more than 100 heads of government arrive for copper 26, the 26th conference of the parties on climate change. australia s prime minister and india s will be in glasgow even after leaked documents show that governments arguing against an end to cole. they want to become a net zero by 2050, why is net zero not low enough, maria? to start by saying what net zero means, it s important to understand it. net zero means that any greenhouse gases that we continue to emit are offset equally by greenhouse gas sinks like boris or technological means. that means the whole planet in a global way has to reach net zero by 2050.
laughter. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline london. this week: the british led the world in vaccination. why is it now leading europe with the highest rate of covid? why in the climate battle, net zero is too high. and 12 angry men and women fear being poleaxed. joining us, maria margaronis, editor at large for the us magazine, the nation, is just completing work on a documentary about greece s summer of heat and fire. henry chu has reported from all over the world for the la times, where he s how part of the editorial team. here in the studio, the british author and columnist yasmin ala bhai brown. a very warm welcome to all of you. only if pressure on the health service from covid is unsustainable will borisjohnson s government impose restrictions.
we have rights. and we like having rights. so you see, the young will change things. - so don t be too pessimistic. maria, michel barnier, which led people in brussels would say is a good european, they say that france must quote its legal sovereignty unless all could be subject to thejudgements of the european court ofjustice. is there now a growing consensus that actually the european authority has gone a bit too far, even in member countries that are at the heart of europe? jasmine is right that making it possible for 27 different nation states to work together is an absolutely utopian project, but i think what we are seeing now is the tension between those two ideas of europe.
for dateline london. laughter hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline: london. this week: the british led the world in vaccination; why is it now leading europe with the highest rate of covid? why in the climate battle, net zero is too high. and 12 angry men and women fear being pole axed. joining us, maria margaronis, editor at large for the us magazine, the nation, is just completing work on a documentary about greece s summer of heat and fire.
and ijust thought i arrived . in a much more civilised place where people are taking care of each other a little bit more and here i don t necessarily blame the public. i think there are some - people who are completely immune to information, warnings and so on. - but the mixed messaging, and i m trying very hard i because we have been instructed to so many times, to try and understand why- the government is doing this. you are displaying empathy. and what maria said this kind of not knowing which way to really come down on, - they are caught between social responsibility which is theirjob, - and the capitalism to which they are committed, which means business and profits and nothing. - they are torn between them. the health secretary said earlier in the week it would be a good thing if conservative mps wore masks