US Absent From Global Climate Conference

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

For the last two weeks, a critically important climate conference has been taking place in Belem, Brazil. For the first time in 30 years, the United States did not send a delegation to the conference. Outside of the event, massive groups of Indigenous people have gathered to demand that world leaders do something to curtail the effects of climate change, which their communities are already feeling. Somini Sengupta, international climate reporter for the New York Times, joins the show to recap the conference. And in headlines, Elon Musk predicts a work-less utopia at the Saudi Investment Forum, the Trump Administration comes up with concepts of a plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war, and a federal judge restarts criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump Administration over potentially illegal deportation flights to El Salvador.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, November 20th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waddey. The show that has learned
0:07.3	Parmigiano Reggiano. Yes, the cheese has signed with a talent agency. Okay, to be clear, it's the
0:14.6	Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium that has signed with United Talent Agency to get the cheese
0:19.8	placement in movies and television shows.
0:22.2	Well, I happen to have a show,
0:24.0	and I would love to see Parmigiano Reggiano
0:26.6	get a prominent place in my lunch, I mean podcast.
0:34.9	On today's show, Elon Musk has some good news for us.
0:38.6	AI will make working optional.
0:41.6	Wait, maybe that's bad news.
0:43.5	And President Donald Trump nominates a new director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
0:48.4	Kind of.
0:49.4	But let's start with the 30th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP 30.
0:55.2	I know a lot has been going on, especially in Washington.
0:58.4	But for the last two weeks, a critically important climate conference has been taking place in Belém, Brazil.
1:04.0	For the first time ever, the United States did not send a delegation to the conference,
1:08.8	but California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom attended last week,
1:12.1	announcing that his state has formed new partnerships with Colombia, Chile, and Brazil
1:16.3	to focus on climate change prevention and clean energy.
1:19.8	He argued that while the U.S. may be ignoring climate change, California isn't.
1:24.3	China, they're not interested in this debate.
1:30.9	They are flooding the zone, and they're not interested in this debate. They are flooding the zone and they're going to dominate in the next great global industry. So I'm here as well from an economic prison.
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