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Speaker 1: David Seymour's call around this Parrot's card merely adds to

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Speaker 1: the list of calls around the Paris Accord globally. If

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Speaker 1: you could park the emotion, just park the emotion right,

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Speaker 1: and the band wagons associated with the obsession around saving

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Speaker 1: the planet, the case for twenty fifty no longer adds up.

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Speaker 1: Take the countries that never signed up in the first place,

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Speaker 1: Take the countries like America that are now leaving. Take

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Speaker 1: the future British Tory government who will bail. Take the

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Speaker 1: world's biggest climate alliance for banks. You won't have read

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Speaker 1: about this. They've suspended their activities and proposed to vote

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Speaker 1: on scrapping its current structure after a whole pile of

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Speaker 1: members bailed. Basically, the net zero banking Alliance right stated

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Speaker 1: their commitment was to align their lending with achieving net zero.

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Speaker 1: Didn't work, didn't even come close. Since Paris and twenty

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Speaker 1: fifteen banks globally have provided loans of six point four

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Speaker 1: trillion US to oil and gas right six point four

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Speaker 1: trillion to green projects four point three. Founder of Reclaimed Finance,

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Speaker 1: a woman called Lucy Pinson, says the reality is the

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Speaker 1: banking Alliance never truly challenged the fossil fuel business models,

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Speaker 1: no kidding on fact, clim it is losing. You can

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Speaker 1: argue forever about why that is and whether that's good

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Speaker 1: or bad. But if it is fact you are using,

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Speaker 1: then the Seymour call and the growing actions of places

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Speaker 1: like America are actually sensible. I mean, just how much fast?

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Speaker 1: How many cops cops eighteen, nineteen, twenty seven, thirty two?

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Speaker 1: How many of those cops do you want to continue

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Speaker 1: to failure? How many press releases do you want asking

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Speaker 1: for us to redouble our efforts knowing it's never going

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Speaker 1: to happen. How much funding, how many air miles? How

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Speaker 1: many promises that will never come close to reality? Do

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Speaker 1: you want to pursue in what simply now is an

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Speaker 1: obviously vain hope, A well intentioned hope yes, laudable yes,

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Speaker 1: but futile. Maybe it's zero or paris. You could argue

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Speaker 1: as a guide, an aspiration and let's, you know, give

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Speaker 1: it a go and see how close we get sort

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Speaker 1: of thing. Perhaps with no target, the whole thing does

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Speaker 1: fall apart. But like a lot of nonsensical ideas, this

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Speaker 1: one has fast become exposed as a bust. If good

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Speaker 1: intention and hot air was currency. It might be different,

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Speaker 1: but the facts and the truth tell us it isn't.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we're all going to Hell and a handcart, a dirty, filthy,

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Speaker 1: climate induced handcart, or maybe who we aren't, but the

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Speaker 1: juggernaut of Paris isn't working, never really did. Good clear,

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Speaker 1: decisive decision making would mean we stopped the rot, the expense,

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Speaker 1: the energy sooner rather than later. For more from The

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