So, on the episode 1291, a behind-the-scenes look of this year's UN Climate Change Conference

with Katie Collins, European correspondent at CNET.

It was not announced beforehand. It was just, it was a very sudden thing. Everyone was running to get seats in this press conference, and nobody knew exactly what was going on except, you know, there was listed as John Kerry's going to speak, and then they bought a Chinese flag up on the stage.

Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm Farnish Terrabi. We are revisiting the cost of climate change today. I thought it would be interesting to have on the show.

My colleague at CNET, Katie Collins, who is based in the UK and was our correspondent at the recent UN Climate Change Conference.

Also known as COP26, this is the UN Climate Summit. It was in its 26th year this year. It was held in Glasgow, Scotland.

It's a gathering of heads of state and world leaders, as well as environmental groups, activists. She gives us the play by play, including some of the surprising takeaways from this year's conference.

A look at the activist role, their strong messages urging swift climate action, and how some of the decisions made at this conference will be showing up in our daily lives.

Here's Katie Collins.

Katie Collins, Mike, Compadre, on the other side of the pond. Welcome to the show, senior European correspondent for CNET. It's great to have you.

It's great to be here. Thank you so much for having me.

You have been very busy. As everybody knows on the show at CNET, we dedicated a lot of coverage to recently to the cost of climate change in tandem with the COP26 UN Conference that was focused on climate.

You are our representative at the conference, two week long conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

So I thought, now that you have sort of caught your breath, you've come back to your day to day, you've written so much great content for the site.

I encourage everybody to go to CNET.com and search for Katie Collins. Just do a big download because it's very important, some of the insights that you walked away with.

Some insights that maybe as every day in our everyday lives, we may not recognize or see, but I think eventually some of these agreements, some of these decisions, some of these insights will start showing up more in our day to day.

Anyway, all this to say, we're so grateful to have you. Tell us about what is COP26. A lot of us are hearing more and more about this annual UN summit of leaders, but also of all sorts of people that have a stake and have a voice at the table for issues concerning climate change and climate adaption.

But what is it and what is the significance?

Yeah, so the UN climate summit COP26, as it was this year, is a kind of, it's a meeting of all of the countries from around the world who are invested in the future of our planet and protecting the future of our planet, fighting climate change.

And it consists of a number of different stakeholders that come together. So, you know, you have world leaders and dignitaries from all of these countries all coming this year. It was obviously to Glasgow in Scotland.

And then you have from each of the countries, you also have a team of negotiators as well, who are experts in climate policy and kind of come together to talk to each other and work out the details.

The details of how, you know, how they're going to meet their shed, what their shed goals should be and how they're going to meet them.

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