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The Climate Briefing

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Frequency: 1 episode/30d. Total Eps: 79

The Climate Briefing unpacks the biggest issues shaping international climate politics. Hosted by Anna Åberg and Bhargabi Bharadwaj of Chatham House, the podcast features voices from governments, international organizations, think tanks, academia and the private sector worldwide.

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COP30: Key issues to watch

Season 1 · Episode 66

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 • Duration 55:15

COP30 is about to begin. Where do we stand ahead of the conference? What are the key issues to watch, and how might the complex geopolitical context influence the discussions in Belém?

To find out, Anna is joined by three Chatham House colleagues: Ana Yang (Director of the Environment and Society Centre), Bernice Lee (Distinguished Fellow and Senior Advisor) and Nick Bridge (Associate Fellow at Chatham House and former UK Special Representative for Climate change).

For additional analysis, please see:

The expert comment 'What can COP30 achieve, following US withdrawal and underwhelming climate plans', available here.
The explainer 'What is COP30 and why does it matter for the climate?, available here.
The expert comment 'The UN climate process remains indispensable', available here.

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What is Brazil's vision for the 'Action Agenda'?

Season 1 · Episode 65

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 • Duration 47:59

The incoming COP30 host, Brazil, has signalled it wants COP30 to mark the moment the UNFCCC transitions to a 'post-negotiation' phase, and that efforts should focus on action and implementation going forward. As part of its work to make this a reality, Brazil is reforming the UNFCCC's 'Action Agenda', a process bringing together cities, regions, businesses, investors, civil society and governments to implement the Paris Agreement.

To find out more about Brazil's vision for the Action Agenda, co-hosts Anna and Bhargabi speak to Dan Ioschpe, Brazil's Climate High-Level Champion for COP30.

In the introduction to the episode, Anna and her colleague Chris Aylett (Research Fellow at Chatham House) discuss the EU's commitment to phase out Russian energy imports by 2028 and US efforts to block a plan for decarbonizing international shipping.

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Using the law to advance (or deter?) climate action

Season 1 · Episode 56

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 • Duration 55:20

Climate litigation is both a strategic tool for climate action and an increasingly common part of the litigation landscape. Recent legal rulings have huge potential implications for the accountability and financial liability of big emitters, including both corporations and national governments.

Anna and Ruth talk to Joana Setzer, climate litigation and global environmental governance expert at London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute. Joana explains the growth in climate litigation, describes landmark cases and tells us what we might expect from climate litigation in the future.

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Saving the ocean

Season 1 · Episode 55

Friday, June 6, 2025 • Duration 22:51

From plastic pollution to overfishing and climate change: the ocean is facing many severe threats. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 is focused on conserving and sustainably using the ocean and its resources. But what progress has been made in implementing this goal?

Ahead of the 3rd UN Ocean Conference, Anna speaks to Ambassador Peter Thomson (the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean) about the state of the ocean, progress made in implementing SDG14, key next steps, and the potential of the UN conference to accelerate action.

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The Future of Climate Diplomacy 1: Simon Sharpe

Season 1 · Episode 54

Thursday, May 22, 2025 • Duration 42:50

Donald Trump's return to the White House poses serious challenges to climate change action and governance, but even before his second term began not nearly enough was being done to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. In a series of conversations, Anna and Ruth interview thought leaders in the climate world about what the future of climate diplomacy should look like.

Their first guest in this new mini-series is Simon Sharpe (Managing Director of S-Curve Economics and author of 'Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics and Diplomacy of Climate Change', with a previous career working on climate change issues within the UK Government).

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How to transform food systems

Season 1 · Episode 53

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 • Duration 46:02

Food systems contribute to around a third of global emissions and have a substantial impact on a range of other areas too, including biodiversity and human health. Transforming food systems is critical for meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. But how should this be done in practice? To find out, Anna and Ruth speak to Emma Williams (Head of the Secretariat of the Alliance of Champions for Food Systems Transformation, ACF) and Richard King (Senior Research Fellow in the Environment and Society Centre of Chatham House).

To learn more about food systems transformation and related areas, please see the following Chatham House outputs:

The research paper 'Aligning food systems with climate and biodiversity targets', available here.
The report 'The emerging global crisis of land use', available here.

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What's next for the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage?

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 • Duration 47:15

Increasingly severe climate change impacts are wreaking destruction across the world, with disastrous implications for human health, wellbeing, livelihoods, culture and security. How to deal with 'loss and damage' caused by climate change was for long a controversial topic within the UN climate negotiations, but at COP27 in 2022 governments agreed to establish a dedicated fund to assist developing countries in responding to the challenge.

In this episode of the Climate Briefing, Anna Aberg and Nina Jeffs (standing in for Ruth Townend) speak to Ibrahima Cheikh Diong, the Executive Director of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, about what progress that has been made in operationalizing the fund, what lies ahead, what some of the main challenges are and how the fund interacts with the wider economic architecture.

To learn more about how loss and damage finance has featured in the climate negotiations, please see the Chatham House research paper 'Loss and damage finance in the climate negotiations: key challenges and next steps' (available here) and the expert comment 'The historic loss and damage fund' (available here).

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The geopolitics of critical raw materials

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 • Duration 57:44

Critical raw materials - like rare earths, cobalt and lithium - play a central role in the energy transition and profoundly influence geopolitical dynamics. Their extraction may also amplify conflict and fragility risks in host countries. In this episode of the Climate Briefing, Ruth and Anna speak to Olivia Lazard (Fellow at Carnegie Europe) and Sophia Kalantzakos (Global Distinguished Professor, Environmental Studies and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi) about the interlinkages between critical raw materials and geopolitics, the challenges associated with extraction, and what a 'good' strategy for securing future access might look like.

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In conversation with Ana Toni, the CEO of COP30

Monday, March 24, 2025 • Duration 19:55

Brazil is presiding over the next UN climate change conference, COP30. In this episode, Anna and Ruth are joined by the Chief Executive Officer of COP30, Ana Toni, to discuss what the aims of the conference are, what Brazil's COP30 diplomatic strategy looks like, and what the UNFCCC's post-negotiation phase' means.

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China's role in international climate diplomacy and action

Friday, March 14, 2025 • Duration 49:12

China is the world's largest emitter and dominates the production of low-carbon technologies worldwide. It thus plays a key role in global efforts to address the climate crisis.

How has China obtained its leading position in the production of green technologies? What role does China play in international climate negotiations? How important has the US-China relationship been in global efforts to reduce emissions, and what will happen now when Donald Trump is back in the White House?

To discuss this and more, Ruth and Anna are joined by Li Shuo (Director of China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute) and Chris Aylett (Research Fellow at the Environment and Society Centre at Chatham House).

To read Chris Aylett's report on UK-China cooperation on climate, please click here

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