Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Global News Podcast. We've teamed up with the

Climate Question podcast to answer listeners' questions about climate change. I'm Nick Miles.

Coming up, we'll discover how far nations are from meeting their climate change commitments,

how developing nations are coping with the effects of increasingly intense hurricanes, droughts and heat waves,

and look at some of the solutions being found by local communities to mitigate the risks and develop new careers in the process.

In a world of conflicts, pandemics and political upheavals,

there is one issue that looms above them all and affects us all, climate change.

Indeed, there's a new warning from the EU's top scientists

that 2024 was the warmest year on record.

As world leaders gather in Azerbaijan for the 29th annual UN climate change meeting,

we're here to answer questions our listeners have sent into us about our changing world and

what nations and individuals are doing about it. I say we, but the answers will come from two of

the BBC's top scientific minds, our climate editor, Justin Rowlett, and Greer Jackson,

presenter of the climate question.

Hi, guys.

Hi, I'm not sure I'm a top scientific mind.

Well, there you go.

I think you are.

Yeah, that's great.

Thank you.

But before we cite, let's take a look at what's at stake.

It's been another year in which we're feeling the impact of our changing climate

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