COP30: A New Hope?
World leaders are gathering in Brazil for the latest round of negotiations to slow down runaway climate change, but could COP30 be the last of these increasingly desperate efforts?
For thirty years world leaders have been gathering to negotiate the planet's route away from climate disaster. For thirty years carbon emissions have been rising and hopes have been fading. Is it time to admit defeat and search for a new strategy to persuade corporations and individuals to cut their pollution and save the planet?
As the COP30 summit begins in Brazil, Helen Czerski and Tom Heap will be joined by an expert panel eager to come up with fresh solutions that could accelerate climate action and bring a unified, international response to the existential crisis of our time.
With them are Nigel Topping, Chair of the UK Climate Change Committee, Corinne Le Quéré, professor of climate change science at the University of East Anglia, Anna Ã…berg from the Chatham House think tank and Georgina Rannard, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Climate and Science correspondent.
Producer: Alasdair Cross
Assistant Producer: Toby Field
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