Inside COP: The countdown to COP30 at New York Climate Week
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
How does COP deliver a pathway to dealing with the worsening climate crisis? That’s the big question as attention across the world turns to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, later this year.
Inside COP is your complete guide, unpacking the challenges, conversations and actions shaping the global response to climate change in 2025.
Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, Paul Dickinson and new co-host Fiona McRaith take you on the road to Belém, starting on the ground at New York Climate Week where we hear from Simon Stiell, the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kara Hurst, Chief Sustainability Officer at Amazon. What needs to happen from here in this new era of climate action?
We speak to Ana Toni from the COP Presidency about expectations for the Nationally Determined Contributions (the climate action plans countries submit under the Paris Agreement) as well as what COP hopes to achieve, including their hopes for collaborative initiatives like the Mutirão.
Plus, our hosts address President Trump’s shocking comments on climate. Is this a major concern or is the climate community already moving forward regardless?
Learn more
🎬 Re-watch the live event at CWNYC
🌿 Follow the official COP30 website
🌅 Understand how COP30 can give rise to this new international era
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Producer: Ben Weaver-Hincks
Video Producer: Caitlin Hanrahan
Assistant Producer: Caillin McDaid
Assistant Producer: Eve Jones
Exec Producer: Ellie Clifford
Commissioning Editor: Sarah Thomas
With thanks to Groundswell and Global Optimism.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Tom Riffick |
| 0:05.5 | Kahnick. I'm Christiana Figueres. I'm Paul Dickinson. And... |
| 0:09.3 | Come on, Fianz, you're line. And I'm Fiona McGrath. |
| 0:12.5 | There you go. This week coming to you live from New York Climate Week, it is our first edition |
| 0:17.0 | of Inside Cop. Thanks for being here. So Paul Christiana, we are on the ground here in New York |
| 0:22.3 | and we are missing you terribly, but we are very excited to be speaking to you now for this, |
| 0:26.5 | our first ever episode of Inside Cop, our special partnership with the COP presidency, bringing |
| 0:31.5 | you insight and analysis on what's happening in the road to COP. It's great. We've finally |
| 0:35.9 | launched it. Yay. It is really so exciting. |
| 0:39.4 | We've been thinking about this for a long time, and it is so exciting that our amazing team |
| 0:46.0 | has actually pulled together all the necessary threads for us to be able to weave this together. |
| 0:52.0 | So we're going to be doing inside cop from now until the end of |
| 0:56.7 | Cop. How exciting. With our special friend, Fiona, you've joined us before so many times and you're |
| 1:01.9 | going to be part of this kind of perfect quartet delivering the, what was it, perfect preparation |
| 1:06.3 | prevents, delivers perfect performance inside COP, sort of mega blast of the essential truth of the global |
| 1:13.2 | climate movement from Bel-M and in the run-up too. Is that right? |
| 1:16.2 | I couldn't have said it more perfectly myself, Paul. |
| 1:19.0 | We've been here on the ground making progress in this direction already. We'll get into this |
| 1:22.2 | in a second because we actually did a live episode yesterday in front of 400 people. |
| 1:26.3 | But before we get into that, I wonder if we should just address, I suppose we can call it |
| 1:31.3 | the elephant in the room. I was in the UN this morning. Donald Trump gave his first address |
| 1:35.0 | for six years when he spoke in front of the UN General Assembly. Now, I think we should |
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