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Zero: The Climate Race

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

COP30 negotiations have officially started, and began with a fight about what to put on the agenda. While not completely unexpected for these enormous multilateral gatherings, it’s a rockier start than the Brazilian hosts in Belem would have wanted. This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi is joined by Rachel Kyte, the UK’s Special Representative for Climate, to talk about how to forge climate consensus in an increasingly polarized world, and who is ready to fill the void left behind by the US.

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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.
0:24.3	From the Financial Times, this is untold.
0:27.9	Toxic legacy.
0:30.2	Out now.
0:31.4	Welcome to Zero. I am Akshatrati.
0:34.1	Today, world leaders at the gateway to the mighty Amazon River.
0:38.3	It's November 11th and the United Nations Summit, COP 30, has officially begun here in Brazil.
0:56.3	It's happening in Berlin, a port city of about 2 million people at the mouth of the Amazon
1:00.7	River.
1:01.8	The negotiations started with a fight about what to put on the agenda.
1:07.0	And that's not unexpected.
1:08.7	It often happens at the start of a COP meeting. But it is certainly
1:12.5	a rockier start than the Brazilian hosts of COP 30 would have wanted. Later on in today's
1:18.7	episode, I'm speaking with an experienced climate diplomat Rachel Kite about the outcomes she's
1:24.2	looking for here in Brazil and who will fill the void left behind by the US.
1:30.3	But first, I wanted to give you a sense of what it's like to be at a climate summit near the
1:35.0	Amazon forest and our reactions to the world leader's speeches that took place last week,
1:40.5	opening the proceedings here in Brazil. To do that, I'm joined by my colleague Sarah Wells,
1:45.5	who leads Bloomberg's coverage of climate and energy. Sarah, welcome to the show.
1:50.3	Thanks, Aksha. So we got a chance to see a little bit of the Amazon forest. What was it like?
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