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This Is Why

Is the Brazil climate conference a COP out?

This Is Why

Sky News

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

With the leaders of some of the world's most polluting countries - the US, China and India - set to skip it, is the COP climate conference irrelevant?

The event in Brazil next week marks three decades of target-setting and financial pledges - yet temperatures are still rising and so are emissions.

Were all those promises a load of hot air? Have dreams of net zero gone up in smoke?

Niall is joined by our science and technology editor Tom Clarke who is at the summit.

Producer: Araminta Parker

Editor: Mike Bovill

Transcript

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Hi all, welcome back to the Daily, where we are asking, is net zero dead? And look, it's certainly not an unfair question.

1:25.1

Governments around the world are watering down their commitment to reducing

1:29.0

our impact on the environment. At the same time, temperatures continue to rise, so to emissions.

1:35.3

And global pollution has been receiving a bit of a boost over just the past couple of days.

1:39.3

Politicians and delegates are flying into Brazil for COP 30. That's the annual UN Climate Change Summit.

1:46.9

The guest list includes our Prime Minister and the Prince of Wales,

1:50.4

not attending the leaders of the world's three biggest polluting nations.

1:55.2

Of course, Donald Trump did tell the UN General Assembly recently

1:58.4

that climate change is the greatest con job ever perpetrated

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