Climate summits are working as they were designed: poorly
Zero: The Climate Race
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Over the last two weeks, tens of thousands of people took to the city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon river, for the annual United Nations climate summit: COP30.
Alongside tense negotiations, there were indigenous protests, daily rainstorms and even a fire at the COP venue. But at the end of it all, what did COP30 achieve? Bloomberg Green’s Jennifer Dlouhy joins Akshat Rathi on Zero, to share her takeaways.
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Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Oscar Boyd. Our theme music is composed by Wonderly. Special thanks to the COP30 team Amanda Hurley, Simon Casey, John Ainger, Jen Dlouhy, Fabiano Maisonnave, Daniel Carvalho, Vanessa Dezem and Dayanne Sousa. Thanks also to Anna Mazarakis, Sommer Saadi, Mohsis Andam, Laura Millan and Sharon Chen.
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| 0:00.0 | People are going to hate me. I won't move on with my life. And I was so petrified of being dragged across the coals for reporting them. And I still am. |
| 0:12.0 | My name is Laura Hughes. And for the past two years, I've been uncovering the United Kingdom's perplexing relationship with lead. |
| 0:20.5 | What I found has shocked me. |
| 0:24.4 | From the financial times, this is untold. |
| 0:27.9 | Toxic legacy. |
| 0:30.2 | Out now. |
| 0:31.5 | Welcome to Zero. I am Akshadrati. |
| 0:34.3 | This week, what happened at COP 30? |
| 0:48.6 | Yeah. This week, what happened at COP 30? For the last two weeks, tens of thousands of people have taken to the city of Berlin at the mouth of the Amazon River |
| 0:55.5 | to take part in the annual United Nations Climate Summit, COP 30. |
| 1:00.2 | These COP meetings last two weeks and involved tense negotiations among all the world's countries. |
| 1:06.0 | In Brazil this time, there was a lot more than that. |
| 1:08.6 | There were indigenous protests, daily rainstorms, and even a fire at the cop venue. |
| 1:14.6 | So, at the end of it all, what did COP 30 achieve? That's what we are going to discuss today. And joining me to do that is my Bloomberg green colleague, Jen DeLuie, who was at COP 30 till the very end and has just come off a long night watching the |
| 1:28.6 | negotiations wrap up. |
| 1:30.3 | Jen, welcome back to Zero. |
| 1:32.3 | Thank you, Akshad. Glad to be here. |
| 1:34.3 | So before we get into all the substantial things that happened at COP 30, let's start at |
| 1:40.0 | the place where most people were a few months ago, still talking about logistics and the challenge |
| 1:46.9 | of hosting a cop at the mouth of the mighty Amazon River. How did it all go? I think it went |
| 1:53.9 | better than expected because months ago we were talking about, you know, the cruise ships that were |
| 1:59.4 | going to be moored here to host tens of thousands of delegates, you know, the people who would have to live in shipping containers, the lack of infrastructure to really support this cop. |
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