Minding the gap at COP27

11/24/22 • 21 min

Luke Bartholomew speaks to Eva Cairns, Head of Sustainability Insights & Climate Strategy at abrdn, and Jeremy Lawson, head of abrdn’s Research Institute, following their return from COP27. They assess how much progress was made in bridging the credibility, ambition, justice, and adaptation gaps that needed addressing to make COP27 a success. They also discuss whether the COP process is fit for purpose to deliver sustainable climate policy.

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Macro Bytes - Minding the gap at COP27

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Luke Bartholomew

Hello, and welcome to Macro Bytes the economics and politics podcast series from abrdn. My name is Luke Bartholomew, and today we are talking about COP 27, the UN's Climate Change Conference, which has just wrapped up in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. And in particular, we want to talk about where we think some of the most progress has been, and, conversely, where we've seen rather less progress, what all this means for investors, and given all of that, what th