{"id":31399,"date":"2022-09-29T05:47:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T05:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themint.kinsta.cloud\/?p=31399"},"modified":"2022-10-09T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T16:50:19","slug":"on-being-an-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/on-being-an-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"On being an inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chee Yoke Ling has, since the 1980s, supported Global South countries in becoming more effective in international policy negotiations. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mint<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> called her up in Bonn, where she was attending a UN meeting, to find out how she has been providing that support; how the political-economy context has changed over the past few decades; and what the prospects are for COP27. Yoke Ling was also the inspiration behind the character\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/captainplanet.fandom.com\/wiki\/Gi\"><b>Gi<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0on the hugely popular <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Animated_television_series\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">animated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> television series, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Captain Planet, about the ventures of an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">environmentalist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superhero_fiction\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">superhero<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Maybe she too will need special powers over the coming years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/themintmagazine.com\/on-being-an-inspiration-transcript\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chee Yoke Ling has, since the 1980s, supported Global South countries in becoming more effective in international policy negotiations. The Mint called her up in Bonn, where she was attending &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1737,58,2],"tags":[2281,2279,2280,1997,2274,2264],"class_list":["post-31399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-government","category-interviews","tag-chee-yoke-ling","tag-climate-compensation","tag-cop27","tag-international-political-economy","tag-loss-and-damage","tag-sept-2022","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}