UN Chief Guterres: "The Status Quo Is a Suicide"

We are losing the fight against climate change, warns UN Secretary General António Guterres. Even if countries were on track to meet their Paris Agreement goals — which they’re not — the world would experience catastrophic levels of warming by the end of the century. But there are still signs of hope. In this episode Political Climate, we discuss the state of global climate action with Mr. Guterres in an interview recorded last week at the R20 Austrian World Summit in Vienna. Plus, Republicans attack their own on climate policy, while Democratic presidential hopefuls Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren roll out bold climate change plans. We begin the show with a check-in on U.S. politics. Recommended reading: Axios: Paris + 2: Climate jolted faster than projected E&E: GOP criticizes its own on climate NYT: What Biden’s Climate Plan Shows About the Democratic Field FP: China Rises in U.N. Climate Talks, While U.S. Goes AWOL Political Climate is produced in partnership with the USC Schwarzenegger Institute and The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. Subscribe to the Political Climate podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, GooglePlay, Overcast or any of these other services!