How agriculture gets overlooked in climate change talks
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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This year's COP30 summit in Brazil has highlighted food, forests and land as key topics. One sector that spreads across all of these is agriculture, and it’s responsible for about one-third of global carbon emissions. Also, China is rapidly expanding its nuclear forces just as the only major nuclear agreement, between the US and Russia, is set to expire next year. And, a conversation with former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin who was the youngest elected world leader when she was in office. Plus, a new initiative that guides Asian American teens and young adults help each other cope with stress.
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| 0:00.0 | A new nuclear arms race has started. Ending it will not be so easy. |
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| 0:17.0 | I'm Carolyn Beeler, how China is playing catch-up with the U.S. and Russia by expanding its nuclear forces. |
| 0:24.7 | Also today, what it was like being the youngest elected leader in the world, an interview with Finland's former prime minister, Sana Maren. |
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| 0:51.9 | We've got all those stories and more today on the world. |
| 0:57.3 | This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:00.2 | Happy Friday and thank you for being here. |
| 1:02.7 | This year's UN Climate Summit is being held in the Brazilian Amazon, putting a focus on the link between deforestation, agriculture, and carbon emissions. |
| 1:12.2 | Agriculture is a major driver of climate change, and we wanted to hear how it is being talked |
| 1:17.1 | about at COP 30. So we reached out to Kavezahidi, the climate director at the Food and Agriculture |
| 1:23.4 | Organization of the United Nations. He joined us from COP 30 in Baleem, Brazil, and defined the problem |
| 1:29.7 | for us. When we talk about agriculture at FAA, we talk about the entirety, agriculture, aquaculture, |
| 1:35.9 | livestock, forestry, it's all included. And it's around a third of greenhouse gas emissions |
| 1:42.2 | come from the agriculture sector. |
| 1:44.5 | Those emissions come from, what, deforestation to plant crops and allow grazing land, fertilizer use. |
| 1:51.7 | What else? |
| 1:52.7 | Actually, increasingly, it's forest fires. |
| 1:55.5 | Unbelievably, last year, about 127 million hectares of a forest burnt. |
| 2:00.6 | We're talking about land about the size of |
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