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Speaker 1: Welcome to zero. I am Akshatrati. This week moving money

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Speaker 1: to the right places. Here at Bloombergrain, we are starting

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Speaker 1: to Geurope for next month's COP meeting in Baku in Azerbaijan.

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Speaker 1: As regular listeners of the show know, I love COPS,

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Speaker 1: the sheer energy and ideas, and the rainbow of delegates

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Speaker 1: that show up every year. This year's meeting will be

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Speaker 1: smaller than recent COPS and will come days after the

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Speaker 1: US election. It will also happen in a region that

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Speaker 1: is between two active conflicts, and yet world leaders cannot

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Speaker 1: avoid talking about how to tackle climate change. The big

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Speaker 1: question that's going to be on the table at COP

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Speaker 1: twenty nine has to do with finance. Specifically, it's to

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Speaker 1: do with money that is moved from rich countries to

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Speaker 1: poor countries to help we're dealing with climate change. The

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Speaker 1: initial promise sum was one hundred billion dollars each year.

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Speaker 1: By twenty twenty, that didn't happen, but by twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: rich countries claimed it was happening. At COP twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: they now need to agree on a newer, bigger figure

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Speaker 1: because the more emissions need to be cut and the

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Speaker 1: more there needs to be adaptation to a hotter planet,

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Speaker 1: the more expensive it gets for poor countries who did

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Speaker 1: not contribute as many emissions to heating the planet in

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Speaker 1: the first place. It is something we'll talk about a

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Speaker 1: lot over the coming weeks. Like when I crossed paths

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Speaker 1: with COP twenty nine president at the Climate Week in

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Speaker 1: New York, already had a list of questions for Mukdarbabayev.

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Speaker 2: Your name is Akshatra Yasha.

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Speaker 1: One of the big things I wanted to ask him

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Speaker 1: was about the Loss and Damage Fund, which was set

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Speaker 1: up to help climate ravish countries pay for immediate recovery.

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Speaker 2: I used supportive of the I and why Akshak, You're

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Speaker 2: right that Loss and Damage Fund and the operationalization of

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Speaker 2: this fund is one of the prioriti on COP twin

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Speaker 2: can I and we make the good progress last week

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Speaker 2: in Baku.

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Speaker 1: We'll bring you more from my conversation with the COP

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Speaker 1: twenty nine president in a future episode as we get

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Speaker 1: into the specifics of how these proposals are likely to

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Speaker 1: play out in negotiating sessions. But first it's helpful to

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Speaker 1: take a step back to understand how climate finance works

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Speaker 1: in the first place, why it's so hard and what

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Speaker 1: the most promising solutions seem to be. There's no one

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Speaker 1: better equipped to explain all of this than Avinash Parsod.

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Speaker 1: He was previously an advisor to Barbados Prime Minister Mia

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Speaker 1: Motley and he's someone we've had on the show before.

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Speaker 1: In that episode, we talked about how climate finance should

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Speaker 1: be thought of in three buckets. The first bucket is

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Speaker 1: the largest. It represents big projects that provide big returns,

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Speaker 1: say a wind farm or a major investment in drought

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Speaker 1: The second bucket represents instruments that make it possible to

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Speaker 1: borrow money today from future people, things like government bonds

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Speaker 1: that can be used to build sea walls that will

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Speaker 1: cost money to day but save a lot more money

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Speaker 1: from avoided flooding. And in the third bucket is funds

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Speaker 1: to deal with extreme climate impact, like the Loss and

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Speaker 1: for this bucket has to come in the form of

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Speaker 1: grants from rich countries. Avinash has been thinking about this

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Speaker 1: problem for a long time, how to make global markets

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Speaker 1: work to unlock climate financing, and in his new role

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Speaker 1: the Inter American Development Bank. He is putting those ideas

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Speaker 1: into action. In this episode, we talk about the kinds

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Speaker 1: of poor old global finance solutions that worked in the

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Speaker 1: deployed on a larger scale. By the way, this episode

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Speaker 1: sits in two buckets. It's a COP twenty nine episode,

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Speaker 1: calling Moving Money, where we demystify how money gets to

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Speaker 1: the right places to deal with climate change. Avinash, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Now. One thing that is becoming more in or obvious

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Speaker 1: these solutions. You've talked about finance all your life. Why

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Speaker 3: Well, it's often because the people who benefit and the

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Speaker 3: One of the ways of trying to deal with this

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Speaker 3: is the the smallest bucket is the hardest to fund,

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Speaker 3: and that's because it's climate related loss and damage. It's

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Speaker 3: estimated to be about one hundred and fifty billion dollars

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Speaker 3: number gets bigger. But the only really way to address

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Speaker 3: that figure is through a cash transfer, and that's the

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Speaker 3: hardest thing politically to do. Cash transfers come out of

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Speaker 3: aid budgets, and aid budgets they're shrinking, they're not expanding.

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Speaker 3: And the total aid in the world of the rich

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Speaker 3: saying that one hundred and fifty billion. It's almost the

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Speaker 3: same amount is additionally needed a doubling of aid. Well,

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Speaker 3: we're nowhere near the political discourse where there's a doubling

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Speaker 3: we need a systemic mechanism, a mechanism that makes this

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Speaker 3: many of these mechanisms around that are actually there that

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Speaker 1: Well, one of those mechanisms is what we have through

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Speaker 1: the cop system, the conference of Parties that happens every year.

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Speaker 1: It forces developed countries and developing countries to make plans

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Speaker 1: But it feels like every year these two parties butt

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Speaker 1: First of all, what is this number and how realistic

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Speaker 1: is a trillion dollars to be put under that number?

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Speaker 3: I think the one trillion dollars, which is a big number,

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Speaker 3: focusing on a real number. One of the challenges of

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Speaker 3: the one hundred billion dollars wasn't so much that it

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Speaker 1: And this one hundred billion is the previous goal that

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Speaker 3: a certain despair, belief that this can't work. We've been

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Speaker 3: that's very hard. Indeed, we're getting governments that are being

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Speaker 1: And do you think these funds that were created decades

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Speaker 1: the same thing could be true because it could happen

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Speaker 1: in everybody's benefit, that's why it's working. Whereas these corp

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Speaker 1: countries saying, we deserve this money because we didn't cause

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Speaker 3: So I think you've described these buckets really well. Actually,

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Speaker 3: It won't work for a few reasons, but I think

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Speaker 3: these magical solutions. Let's break this down now, insurance is

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Speaker 3: On a daily basis, monthly, quarterly, annually. You can spread

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Speaker 3: This is like people who are climate vulnerable are now

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Speaker 1: So we've talked about what the COP system looks like,

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Speaker 3: People have said that this is the finance COP. As

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