were pushed forward. but as far as practical deeds, yes, this corporate minimum tax, that s a very significant development. i didn t see a whole lot of other major, major initiatives that were moved forward. you know, it was important, though, for i think for president biden to be there. he had a chance to patch up relations with france, with president macron, given the nature of what had happened in the weeks earlier, that submarine deal that the uls put forward with australia. i think that was important. i think it was important for the president personally, very important for him to meet and have that meeting with pope francis. pope francis believes he is a good catholic. he can continue to receive his communion despite his position on abortion rightings for women. that is so important personally for the president. he did achieve that, and i think he left rome and came to scotland encouraged by those developments. but there s still so many other
late to change climate change. in fact, one of the more optimistic things that came out of the recent icbc report was a finding that if we can get our emissions all the way down to zero, world. warming. it is not a huge amount of warming in the pipeline or inevitable. so we have control over how much the planet warms. it is up to us in the policies we put in place stop so we can do it. which just need the political will and the technology to do so. 0k, dr and the technology to do so. ok, drzeke and the technology to do so. ok, dr zeke hausfather, thank you for your time and i hope you for your time and i hope you have a successful trip to glasgow as this progresses. we will have more on this story later on in the programme, particularly looking at ethical and green investments so all that to come later in the programme now let s get one of the day s other news. the french president emmanuel macron has accused the australian prime minister scott morrison of lying to him of the scrapping
offensive. restoring that relationship with france, talking about the sort of clumsiness of the ways in which this defense deal, submarine deal of australia and so on ended up putting the french on the outside. and announcing this relationship with the european union and the reduction of tariffs, on steel and aluminum and so on. that s a sort of the personal aspect of that diplomacy. but i think that the sort of commitment to resuscitating the iran deal, to having discussions about that global issues like vaccination campaigns and so on show the americans front and center and eager to underscore the crucial importance of multilateralism and how an entity like the g-20 can address those particular issues. and so i see that diplomatic offensive and working out well. whether or not it can actually translate into concrete measures are, of course, the big question of the day, as you underscore, because of the problems that
because it s a source of concern that they are trying desperately to repair? yes, and i think the difference with this white house than what the countries had to dole with with trump is long-term reliability. there are going to be blips. the france-u.s. relationship is not going to dissipate over a single deal. even the sort of legacy of the afghanistan withdrawal is not a huge focus going on right now, and i think what you re seeing is there are going to be continuing disagreements about priorities around not just afghanistan or a submarine deal but also remember iran which it looks like we ll have to get some agreement around sanctions if the united states is not going to rejoin a sort of unified effort, and so threats rifts are understandable given the priorities but the long-term ease and calmness of the g-20 cannot be underestimated.