Elusive Climate Deal (with Julie Gilson)

About this episode

Adam Quinn interviews Julie Gilson about the outcomes of the COP30 climate conference and the progress on emissions reduction.

Climate conference COP30 is now complete, celebrating 30 years of efforts to understand and alleviate human impact on the climate. Host Adam Quinn sits down with Julie Gilson to talk through the COP process, previous agreements and what (if any) progress has been made to keep emissions from rising. China reaching peak emissions, the US notably absent and more fossil fuel lobbyists than any individual country's representatives (bar the host), there's plenty to delve into. We discuss it all here. Produced by Conor McKenna in association with the University of Birmingham. You can follow us on Twitter.com/PolWorldView and stay up to date And Like our facebook.com/polworldview Adam Quinn - facebook.com/adamquinn161 Christalla Yakinthou - twitter.com/Yakinthou Scott Lucas - twitter.com/ScottLucas_EA David Dunn - witter.com/HastingsDunn Copyright 2017 Music: "Go Cart" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

People in this episode

Host: Adam Quinn

Guest: Julie Gilson

Topics covered

• climate change
• COP30
• international agreements
• emissions
• fossil fuels

Keywords

• climate conference
• human impact
• peak emissions
• fossil fuel lobbyists
• US absence

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Go Cart

Places: China, US

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