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Amanpour

Former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ten years ago in Paris, the world set its key climate goal, to limit a rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Now the United Nations is warning that the planet is likely to overshoot that target in the next decade, and that swift action is needed to limit the damage. The warning comes as world leaders are gathering for the COP30 Climate Conference in Belem, Brazil. Christiane spoke to former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres, a key architect of the Paris Climate Agreement, in Brazil ahead of the summit.   Also on today's show: author Katy Hessel ("How to Live an Artful Life"); Grammy-award winning musician and songwriter Jacob Collier  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:05.0

The ceiling that protects most vulnerable countries and most vulnerable populations around the world,

0:12.0

which is a 1.5 degree ceiling, is now at least temporarily out of reach.

0:19.0

With the world on track to miss a major climate goal, Christiana Figuera's, a leading architect

0:24.8

of the Paris Climate Agreement, tells Christian why there's still reason to be hopeful.

0:29.9

Plus, everyone begins with a blank page or a blank canvas.

0:33.5

The task is to just go for it.

0:35.5

And so I think artists can teach us all sorts of things.

0:38.3

Finding art and creativity in everyday life.

0:41.6

Best-selling writer, art historian, and broadcaster Katie Hessel joins me to discuss her latest project,

0:48.1

How to Live an Artful Life.

0:50.2

And then, Grammy Award-winning musician Jacob Collier speaks to Hari Shrina Vossin about his new album, The Light for Christiana Amun-Poor.

1:22.8

Ten years ago in Paris, the world set its fundamental climate goal to limit a rise in global temperatures

1:28.3

to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Well, now the results are in. As leaders are gathering in Brazil

1:34.4

for the COP 30 climate conference, the United Nations has issued a strong message that not

1:39.6

enough has been done, and the world is on track to far exceed that 1.5 degree limit.

1:45.0

If we act now at speed and scale, we can maybe

1:50.0

overshoot as small as short and as safe as possible

1:54.0

and bring temperatures back below 1.5 degrees Celsius before centuries end.

2:00.0

Scientists say the impacts of such a rise could be catastrophic, with extreme weather events like

2:05.9

Hurricane Melissa becoming more frequent and even more destructive.

2:10.4

It comes, though, as the United States, historically one of the world's biggest polluters,

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