About this episode

The episode discusses the significance of COP summits in climate politics and their impact on people and communities.

In climate politics, it is easy to treat COP summits as a travelling show: intense media noise, careful drafting marathons, and then a quick shift to the next crisis. In this episode of DevelopmentAid Dialogues, host Hisham Allam talked with Paulo C. De Miranda about when these summits stopped being just diplomacy and started to matter for people, balance sheets and fragile communities. Paulo, Chairman and Co-Founder of DEEP and a senior executive in impact management, argued that COPs ...

People in this episode

Host: Hisham Allam

Guest: Paulo C. De Miranda

Topics covered

• climate politics
• COP summits
• impact management
• diplomacy
• fragile communities

Keywords

• COP summits
• climate change
• diplomacy
• impact management
• climate reality

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DEEP

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