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Inside the Climate Change Talks |  |
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The BBC’s Mike Williams reports on the delicate negotiations to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. Over a six month period he tracks international activity in the run up to the United Nations Summit in Bali. |
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The U.S. emits more carbon dioxide than any other country. But it didn’t ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the international accord that seeks to limit greenhouse gas emissions. This accord expires in 2012, and international leaders are meeting to find a successor. In this documentary produced for the BBC World Service, Mike Williams looks at the talks that led up to the Bali summit. This half-hour, he goes behind scenes at the G-8 summit in May. He also explores the viability of “liquid coal.” |
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Low lying island states are victims of climate change, yet their emissions are negligible. These nations say they struggle to get their voices heard. Mike Williams tracks AOSIS, the Association of Small Island States, as it plots its strategies for the U.N. talks. He reports from a preparatory U.N meeting in Vienna last summer as these nations make a passionate plea for a complacent world to save them . |
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Click here to listen to the final part of Mike William’s report on the run-up to the Bali summit on climate change.
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| THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world. |
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