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World Service,11 Aug 2017,49 mins

Former US Vice President Al Gore on Climate Change

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The former US vice president and climate change campaigner, Al Gore, says the United States looks likely to meet its commitments to the Paris accord despite President Trump's decision to withdraw from the deal. Mr Gore told the BBC that the largest US states had pledged to honour the agreement and hundreds of cities and businesses were already implementing reductions. Plus does your company offer paid maternity leave? In Finland, a new mother gets up to 23 weeks paid leave with eight weeks of paid leave for her partner too. The United States, by contrast, doesn't guarantee paid parental leave to employees. Can Silicon Valley lead the march for change? The BBC's Dave Lee finds out more. As football's Premier League celebrates its 25th anniversary, Professor Tom Cannon of Liverpool University looks at how the business of football has changed in that period, and whether the bubble will ever burst. Fergus Nicoll is joined from Delhi by Jyoti Malhotra, consulting editor at the Indian Express and from New York by Alexander Kaufman, Business and Environment reporter with the Huffington Post. (Photo Credit: Paul Morigi / Stringer / Getty Images)

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