Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. This seventh episode, released Friday 14 November 2025, focuses on closing the climate finance gap. Countries have already committed to providing $300bn of public climate finance a year, but have never achieved this pledge. Now, they want to lean on philanthropists and the private sector to reach $1.3trn per year by 2035. How can this vision be turned into reality? We ask our expert guest speaker, the Green Finance Institute's head of missions James Hooton. We also bring you the biggest headlines from the UN climate summit in brief, covering new figures on fossil fuel lobbyists attending and shocking news about how past climate finance allocations have been directed. Your hosts are: - edie content editor Sarah George - edie editor Matt Mace - edie senior reporter Sidhi Mittal Say hello: newsdesk@fav-house.com
Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. This sixth episode, released Thursday 13 November 2025, focuses on tackling climate-related misinformation and disinformation. With the rise of AI deepfakes and with public trust in traditional information sources waning, information integrity has been added to the COP agenda for the first time. We explore what that means in practice with Maria Correa, advisor and spokesperson for Creatives for Climate. Creatives for Climate says it takes a systemic approach to reducing the influence of big polluters on creative industries including TV, PR, print media and advertising. It works with more than 7,000 creatives worldwide on this imporant issue. We also bring you the biggest headlines from the UN climate summit in brief, covering everything from the attendance of Indigenous groups to scuffles over agreements on the energy transition. Your hosts are: - edie content editor Sarah George - edie editor Matt Mace - edie senior reporter Sidhi Mittal Say hello: newsdesk@fav-house.com
Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. This fifth episode, released Wednesday 12 November 2025, focuses on the impact of the energy transition on people. Can young people expect to enter good, clean energy jobs? Why is it still challenging to finance renewables in low-income nations? And what's the role of philanthropy in improving energy access? We put these questions to our expert guest, Woochong Um, who is the CEO of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP). We also bring you the biggest headlines from the UN climate summit in brief, covering everything from China's presence to forest finance. Your hosts are: - edie content editor Sarah George - edie editor Matt Mace - edie senior reporter Sidhi Mittal Say hello: newsdesk@fav-house.com
Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. This third episode, released Tuesday 11 November 2025, focuses on the circular economy aspect of the COP. With UN-convened discussions to create a global plastics treaty having collapsed this summer, can COPs fill the void? Or is there another way forward? We ask our special guest, Michael Sadowski, executive director and board chair of The Circulate Initiative. Also in this episode, we bring you the news in brief from Belem, including new NDCs and concerns over biofuel expansion. Your hosts are: - edie content editor Sarah George - edie editor Matt Mace - edie senior reporter Sidhi Mittal Say hello: newsdesk@fav-house.com
Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. This third episode, released Monday 10th November 2025, is all about climate adaptation. We bring you the day's biggest headlines and the takeaways from the UN's Adaptation Gap Report, which revealed a decrease in global funding between 2022 and 2023 - even as the costs of extreme weather events soared. Our Dr Ajam Gambhir, director of systemic risk assessment at ASRA. ASRA was founded with a mission to help policymakers, business leaders and others to embed climate risk considerations into their decision-making processes. Such considerations should cover systemic and cascading risks. Dr Ghambir answers questions including: - Is it too late to be funding emissions cuts - should we focus on adaptation instead? - How can we scale up adaptation funding? - How can businesses improve their climate resilience planning? Your hosts are: - edie content editor Sarah George - edie editor Matt Mace - edie senior reporter Sidhi Mittal - Springwise commissioning editor Matthew Hempstead Say hello: newsdesk@fav-house.com
Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. For this second episode, released Friday November 2025, we walk you through the timelines and key themes for this COP - from forests to finance. We also give you a who's who for this year's World Leaders Summit (6-7 November). Your special guest expert for this episode is Ani Dasgupta, CEO of the World Resources Institute. He shares the Institute's learnings on the biggest gaps in existing national climate plans, and shares his big hopes for the summit in terms of nature and enabling a just transition. Your hosts are: - edie content editor Sarah George - edie editor Matt Mace - edie senior reporter Sidhi Mittal Say hello: newsdesk@fav-house.com
Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. For this first episode, released Thursday 6 November 2025, we walk you through the timelines and key themes for this COP - from forests to finance. We also give you a who's who for this year's World Leaders Summit (6-7 November). Your special guest expert for this episode is Cathy Yitong Li, global climate & energy policy lead at BirdLife International. Cathy is also an advisor to the UN on environmental and climate justice. Your hosts are: - edie content editor Sarah George - edie editor Matt Mace - edie senior reporter Sidhi Mittal - Springwise content editor Matilda Cox Say hello: newsdesk@fav-house.com
We have a deal! After nearly 200 countries agree to "transition away from fossil fuels", Luke, Matt and Sarah re-unite in the UK to unpack the final agreement and reflect on the highs, lows and in-betweens of COP28, including a live special guest to close out the series. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAIN PODCAST – https://www.edie.net/content/podcasts/ View all of edie's COP28 content – https://www.edie.net/tag/cop28/.
The final themed day of the climate summit sees Luke, Matt and Sarah unpack a flurry of global food and agriculture announcements before delivering up a trio of exclusive interviews with PepsiCo, the Sustainable Markets Initiative, and ProVeg International.
A pivotal Nature Day at the climate summit sees Luke and Sarah analyse a flurry of big announcements regarding an alignment of the climate and biodiversity agendas, featuring special guests from Business for Nature and the FAIRR Initiative for investors.
We’re back on the ground in Dubai as the COP28 spotlight turns to youth empowerment, featuring inspirational special guests from the Race to Zero campaign and the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition. Plus, renowned climate scientist Johan Rockström gives us his take on a potential fossil fuel phase-out agreement. Say hello – podcast@fav-house.com. View all of edie's COP28 content – https://www.edie.net/tag/cop28/.
A fast and furious Transport Day sees Sarah explore two game-changing examples of zero-emission mobility – Einride's electric trucks and Formula E's electric racecars. Plus, Matt returns to reflect on a whirlwind first week at the summit. Say hello – podcast@fav-house.com. View all of edie's COP28 content – https://www.edie.net/tag/cop28/.
A crucial Energy Day at the climate summit sees Luke and Sarah analyse the latest developments regarding a global 'phase-out' of fossil fuels, featuring special guests from the World Benchmarking Alliance, Sustainable Energy Access Forum Kenya, and Reactive Technologies. Say hello – podcast@fav-house.com. View all of edie's COP28 content – https://www.edie.net/tag/cop28/.
Luke and Sarah sit down for a meat-free meal at the climate summit to reflect on COP28 'Finance Day', before delivering up a trio of interviews with Lloyds Bank, Bankers for Net-Zero, and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change.
Luke and Sarah deliver up a ‘Health Day’ special against an ironically smog-filled Dubai skyline, featuring interviews with healthcare provider Bupa and philanthropic organisation Foundation S. Plus, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman doesn't hold any punches with his take on the escalating fossil fuel fiasco. Say hello – podcast@fav-house.com. View all of edie's COP28 content – https://www.edie.net/tag/cop28/.
Luke and Sarah round up a ‘super Saturday’ of big energy announcements along with some of the quirkier aspects of the COP28 experience – from stray cats to little green trains – plus, special guest interviews with the UK Corporate Leaders Group and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Three becomes two on the edie team as Luke and Sarah reflect on ‘frantic Friday’ at the climate summit, featuring a round up of the global commitments from World leaders along with special guest interviews with Google and the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) Partnership. Say hello – podcast@fav-house.com. View all of edie's COP28 content – https://www.edie.net/tag/cop28/.
Luke, Matt and Sarah bear the heat of a two-hour COP28 registration queue before making it into the climate summit for special guest interviews with the We Mean Business Coalition and Diageo – plus the usual Action Tracker round-up and listener quiz.
In the first episode of edie's brand-new COP28 Covered podcast series, the team convenes to discuss the potential successes (and failures) of the upcoming climate summit – including our very own COP28 Action Tracker, a game of “good COP/bad COP”, and a listener quiz. Have a question about this podcast or a suggestion for future episodes? Get in touch – podcast@fav-house.com. View all of edie's COP28 content – https://www.edie.net/tag/cop28/.
A reflective final episode sees Luke, Matt and Sarah re-unite to discuss the impacts that COP26 could have on people, industry and the planet – featuring interviews with a young documentary filmmaker, a Glaswegian climate leader and the sustainability director at Formula E. Have a question about this podcast or a suggestion for future episodes? Get in touch – podcast@fav-house.com. View all of edie's COP26 content – www.edie.net/COP26