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Transcripts For ALJAZ Inside Story 2019 Ep 208 20240714

Distance himself from because the immediate impacts are felt by others a long way away and in this case i think thats quite a person with respect to extreme heat. They didnt show for this for this discussion because the most challenging conditions worldwide are faced away from the west they are faced in places like Southeast Asia around the persian gulf and around east asia and when we see impacts like that somewhere else is perhaps easier than appreciate the agency of the situation and perhaps that that propagates down to policy that does not an area that are all comment on so to say you do see this up close this is not something that is far away and distant for you and for the red cross c tell us how much more this is a bigger piece of what you do now having to deal with the after effects of Climate Change and whether. Certainly sir. I am from sea and now responding to up to 3000 weather events in just the last decade and expecting that this will continue to increase and for Climate Change is becoming. A primary concern for us as a humanitarian act and we will not be able to continue to pick up the pieces of extreme weather events and lastly to take more urgent action. And even to go back to something you were talking about we were talking about policy and there are countries like the u. S. That are not. Carrying their weight not doing their part what countries do would you say are at least making an attempt or at least making a difference or trying to do their part so theres an interesting study that came out a couple of years ago examining the contributions the countries are making towards the parse agreement the socalled paris pledges and what it did was of value much their pledge represented their quote unquote fair share of responsibility and what it find was that. Broadly speaking that developed countries or failing miserably to deliver on what their fair share would be meanwhile the developing countries and including in that china were again broadly speaking more or less doing what their fair share would be the fresher being determined by what they have historically contributed up to this point and also what their current capacity in terms of Financial Economic pie are means for them and so that was i think a shock for a lot of people to realize because the message that were often told is that in europe we have of sort of many green leaning governments who are leading the way on this empirically proven but that wasnt the case. So there are i dont think we can say that any government on the face of this earth is doing enough within the scope of what would be considered to be fair we can say that at least the developing countries are trying they obviously need to do more about being able to do more will be contingent on being able to do more by having finance provided technology provided but currently were not seeing that forthcoming instead were seeing actually reneging on financial commitments under the Green Climate fund were seeing for the privilege of intellectual Property Rights being placed in the trade system that prevent the rollout of these technologies that we really need at scale ok let me jump in for just a 2nd you talked about finances an economy. At some point if it isnt already Climate Change costs businesses money over time is is that the way to get their attention. I mean it it might be. Some of them think very short term so it depends on what time scale youre talking about and they also im sure factoring in at this sort of executive level. Really that will mean for them and if theyre able to kind of get out before things get really nasty so it might motivate some i think for certainly for like people that arent in multinational business i think its a big concern but for the real for the businesses that and corporations that have the lions share of pollution that contribute the most about im not so sure that theyre really actively thinking about. How much money theyre going to lose and instead theyre when we look at the fossil fuel industry in particular. Going after what what many people call stranded offsets so that all the these hydrocarbons that i havent yet been dug up extracted and cant be if we have any if we want to have any hope for living on that on this planet but theyre still pursuing those so it doesnt seem to be an argument that this winning enough of them over at the executive level tama told me to come back to this and we absolutely are you were talking about how Different Countries different parts of the world are theyre not all impacted by Climate Change in the same way who gets the worst of it. Well you really dont need depends on the last topper has its office in the context of Climate Change so thats how we feel the impact is not through the change in the average its a change in the frequency of intensity of extreme events so be they things like tropical cyclamens be they heat waves or be the extreme storms and the like to see in the latter 2 years of thunderstorms across the pens where you are. Generally speaking an area that gets hit pretty hard as over region is the low latitudes places close to the equator thats certainly the case when we talk about things like extreme heat and tropical cyclons 2 of the most impactful extreme weather Events Worldwide and unfortunately in terms of heat alone this place is already very close to dangerous thresholds in terms of temperature and humidity and it doesnt take much therefore to push people into conditions that are really dangerous where its difficult to have to work or simply to stay healthy and on top of that those readers are already very hard see the largest absolute changes in whats called the whats called the feels like temperature when you combine humid into into the into one variable so i would say generally speaking a lot to choose sort of contributed perhaps less to keep its Carbon Emissions to date and perhaps have the lowest ability to adapt in terms of resources. In the firing line the most it has are you deal with people on the ground that are you know dealing with this right in their face explain why you know 1st of all theres really nowhere to escape but its also not that easy for a family to just pick up and move because of the conditions or they live this this internally displaced people. Absolutely likely when people are back to by extreme weather whatever it is dont want to have to leave their homes dont have to review families and their communities and so we very much work with governments with local authorities and other Civil Society organizations to help communities prepare for events practice and to make sure that theyre living in safer homes and have access to resources to act early when when they hear of an oncoming storm and cite bruner of an upcoming heat wave so theres a lot that can be done to prepare and to produce the impacts of extreme weather and this is exactly what we need to be doing war of as we experience the impacts of Climate Change nathan i went to turn a critical eye to the media i read a comment today and im curious in your ear and put on this paraphrasing a bit loosely said you know why is the media what are they whenever there is heat waves why do they treat these stories like theyre fun stories and everyones getting our jumping in the poor and that the media plays a role in shaping the way the public thinks about those things what are your thoughts on that. I think its outrageous. Youll notice that i think one of the extinction of millions targets as has been in this country the b. B. C. And theyve been trying to call them out for what they call a sort of bias almost towards the point of being climate denialism. I think that theres a there is a massive degree of responsibility the lies with the particular Corporate Media for done playing the seriousness of this challenge for also kind of missed directing the focus of the anger away from elite and corporate polluters and away from the sort of taking us a systemic look at the crisis and narrowing it down really to the level of individual behavior and consumption changes which means that people feel guilty themselves but they also will be then taking actions which were not a mind to anything near enough in terms of impact so we were not going to see the kinds of changes based not only because of the medias dumping of the crisis but also because of their sort of incessant mis direction away from a critique of the Global Economic system really i think its fairly easy to explain why that is when you look at who really controls the media particularly in the u. K. Tom is this is this trend these heat waves and Climate Change is it reversible. Thats a very good question so i mean in the short term temperatures will continue to go up almost regardless of what we do and thats an Inconvenient Truth that just reflects the fact that it takes some time for the climate system to respond to the emissions that are already already up in the atmosphere. Reversible or long term yes if we if we become carbon new juror c o 2 levels are reduced in the atmosphere then of course it is reversible to try and increase in temperatures and then the increase in intense heat waves to the follows something that i suppose in the short term we have a greater capacity there is to increase our sort of adaptive ability and that relates to things like the health or Early Warning pads adaption of a patient more broadly said to respond well to the changes that we do we know are coming in the short term we are committed to more warming and we dont even necessarily know what a planet is one degree above preindustrial is where we sit right now we dont really know what the extremes look like in a world like that because weve only had you know a couple of years of this this temperature level so in the short term adaptation is really where we need to invest some so miss him energy because more changes are coming but further along the line i think going back to your and back to your question i very much hope they are of the trends that were seeing in the short term we committed to and the only way they reverse bill is by reducing the amount of Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere tesa were it real quick to you i know that the red cross has sounded the alarm do you feel that governments are listening more. Yes actually i think with teens and really positive development. Programs its slow but i feel like this year because of the increased public attention and also because of the impact that may experience across the board whenever you bet is more ambitious now to address Climate Change and raising that particularly now in the run up to the u. N. Secretary general Climate Summit where theres an expectation that governments will come and put commitments on this table and show how much theyre committed to addressing Climate Change and in fact weve been really believes to see that there are some positive developments there and we hope that comes that tender that we salute really strong commitments exactly as tom said around this adaptation. But of course we want Life Commitments not just to stay at statements we want to result in group action on the ground and this time well have to scout tessa thank you very much thank you all for this discussion appreciate it very much nathan thank you kelly and tom matthews i thank you for watching as well you can watch the program any time to get our web site aljazeera dot com for further discussion of our Facebook Page thats facebook dot com ford slash a. J. Entire story and join the conversation on twitter i had a list at a. J. Inside story from a rachelle carried the entire tape half an hour. The plundering of armenias natural riches has uprooted residents and desecrated the habitat of some of europes most endangered species. But a Remarkable Campaign by local residents is challenging the miked of the countrys investors and pinning high hopes on its newly elected Prime Minister people in power investigates armenia mining out the left. On a jazzier. 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And i have a problem and with the headlines on al jazeera saddams government is blaming a single officer for jeunes crackdown in which at least 100 people were killed and best to say it was that officer who led the baptist support forces to end a sentence outside the military headquarters and from the governments investigation into the violence also disputes the number of people who were killed when Security Forces fired live ammunition to disperse the crowd hit morgan has the latest from addus ababa and neighboring ethiopia we clicked on the acting. But it was only one author who would be on for the attack on that but then now we have been having a conversation about the online and. About the attack on the men they say that and document it well or that 100 back live in the region and. So this is not going to go down that. 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Well demonstrators enclave in despite facing a continuous volley of tear gas from police many shops and businesses in the area have remained closed police was slow to react to attacks on protesters last week which activists say is proof that offices would be attackers 7 oclock has the latest from the. Thousands of protesters out here take over you long which is the territories. Of china at the moment we have a standoff between police and those protests and the police have used a number grounds. To think it was just this those protests restriction much actually the arrogance of these protesters that surround this Police Station and their accusations at least in the last week and last sunday from the system. Trying to help you know more of the banks was wearing what she was talking about it was a raucous and measuring right so does that make me sit down on the street i mean thats and they. Might. 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