Episode 13: The final agreement from Belém, explained

Welcome to COP31 Covered, the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team, keeping you informed and inspired during the 2026 UN climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye. This sixth episode comes to you on Saturday 14 November 2026, the Children, Youth, Education and Skills Day at COP. - What is the state of the global green skills gap? - How are AI and green skills connected? - What needs to happen on skills at COP31? We put these question's to today's special guest, Efrem Bycer, who leads workforce and climate policy at LinkedIn. Plus, we react to draft negotiating texts on a new Just Transition Mechanism and on tripling adaptation finance, both of which have drawn sharp criticism. For more on youth participation at COP, listen back to episode one with COP31 Presidency Youth Climate Champion Sally Higgins. Your hosts are: edie acting content editor Matilda Cox edie editor-in-chief Matt Mace Say hello: [email protected]

Welcome to COP31 Covered, the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team, keeping you informed and inspired during the 2026 UN climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye. This episode, released Friday 13 November 2026, is all about finance and trade. As the first week of COP31 draws to a close, we unpack why adaptation finance is falling even as countries promise to triple it and where the negotiations stand ahead of the crucial second week. We also discuss Greenpeace’s giant Trojan horse protest against plastic production, and the COP31 Presidencies’ first outline of what could go into the summit’s cover decision. Our special guest is Claudine Blamey, chief sustainability officer at Aviva. We ask Claudine: - How climate-ready is the UK? - What’s stopping finance from flowing into solutions at scale? - What has the FloodAction Coalition achieved so far? - What would a successful COP31 look like for finance? Your hosts are: - edie's acting content editor Matilda Cox - edie's editor-in-chief Matt Mace - edie's senior reporter Sidhi Mittal Say hello: [email protected]

Welcome to COP31 Covered, the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team, keeping you informed and inspired during the 2026 UN climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye. This episode, released Thursday 12 November 2026, is all about resilient cities and the built environment. The team reacts to UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first COP speech and unpacks what we could expect to see in the final text. Our special guest is Dan Ioschpe, the COP30 Climate High-Level Champion, who is handing over the role at the end of COP31. Dan answers questions including: - What did COP30 in Belém teach him, and what is he bringing to Antalya? - What role does the Global Climate Action Agenda play? - What's his key ask for COP31? Your hosts are: - edie's acting content editor Matilda Cox - edie's editor-in-chief Matt Mace - edie's senior reporter Sidhi Mittal Say hello: [email protected]

Welcome to COP31 Covered, the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team, keeping you informed and inspired during the 2026 UN climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye. This third episode, released Wednesday 11 November 2026, is all about zero waste. The team unpacks the day’s biggest announcements, including from the opening of the Leaders’ Summit, where UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is the only G7 leader due to attend. Our special guest is Patrick Schröder, senior research fellow in the Environment and Society Centre at Chatham House and a coordinating lead author for the IPCC’s seventh assessment report. We ask Patrick: - Why should circularity be a bigger part of the net-zero conversation? - What role could (or should) biofuels play? - How does electrification overlap with the circular economy? Your hosts are: - edie's acting content editor Matilda Cox - edie's editor-in-chief Matt Mace - edie's senior reporter Sidhi Mittal Say hello: [email protected]

Welcome to COP31 Covered, the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team, keeping you informed and inspired during the 2026 UN climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye. This second episode, released Tuesday 10 November 2026, is all about energy. The edie team unpacks the COP31 Presidency’s flagship “35 by 35” global electrification pledge and who’s backing it, as UN climate chief Simon Stiell tells countries the choice is “electric or shock”. Our special guest is Isabel Beltran, vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet’s (GEAPP). Isabel explores: - Why the last 2% of electricity access is the hardest to unlock - How small amounts of philanthropic funding can catalyse huge change - Why energy projects need to deliver more than just infrastructure Your hosts are: - edie's acting content editor Matilda Cox - edie's editor-in-chief Matt Mace - edie's senior reporter Sidhi Mittal Say hello: [email protected]

Welcome to COP31 Covered, the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team, keeping you informed and inspired during the 2026 UN climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye. This first episode, released Monday 9 November 2026, is all about food and agriculture. We bring you the day’s biggest headlines, including the key findings from research launched at COP today. Our special guest is Sally Higgins, the COP31 Presidency Youth Climate Champion. A young farmer from regional Queensland and a Nuffield Farming Scholar, Sally works to ensure young people have a meaningful voice in UN climate decision-making. Sally answers questions including: - How are rising costs and climate risk squeezing farmers, and what do they need from policymakers? - How can sustainable farming become a commercially viable career for young people? - What does meaningful youth participation at COP look like? She also shares details of her Back Future Farmers initiative, launching at COP31 on Friday 13 November. Your hosts are: - edie's acting content editor Matilda Cox - edie's editor-in-chief Matt Mace Say hello: [email protected]

The final episode of edie’s daily COP30 Covered podcast is now streaming, with our award-winning journalists simplifying the key outcomes of the climate summit, including those on forests, climate finance and fossil fuels. We look at what happened within - and beyond - the official negotiators' Plenary to summarise whether the past two weeks in Brazil have resulted in a good COP or bad COP. We also look to the future, summarising the key international climate and environment events on the horizon for 2026. Your hosts for this episode are: - edie editor Matt Mace - edie content editor Sarah George Say hello: [email protected]

Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team, hosted to keep you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. This episode is a special takeover hosted by edie's sister publication, Springwise. In our news in brief section today (Thursday 20 November), we cover the unusual agreement which Turkey and Australia have reached regarding next year's COP. This episode also examines whether AI will help or hinder the delivery of the Paris Agreement, and summarises the AI-focused initiatives which have come out of COP30. Our special guest interviewees today are: - Matt Carr, co-founder and CEO of Luffy AI - James Price, solutions engineer at digiLab Your hosts for this episode are: - Springwise commissioning editor Matthew Hempstead - Spingwise content editor Matilda Cox Say hello: [email protected]

Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team, hosted to keep you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. In our news in brief section today (Wednesday 19 November), we look at the first official draft documents to have emerged as the COP30 organising team rushes to get an agreement over the line in time for Friday. We also look at how today's themes, centred around agriculture, are shaping up. Are there delegates being served sustainable meals and snacks? And who are the industrial ag leaders using COP30 as a lobbying opportunity? Our special guest interview today is with Manuela Santos, Country Director for Brazil at the sustainable trade initaitve IDH. She dials in from Sao Paolo to share what she saw in Belem at the COP, and to share her learnings on collaboration for more sustainable food systems, Your hosts for this episode are: - edie content editor Sarah George - edie editor Matt Mace - Spingwise content editor Matilda Cox Say hello: [email protected]

Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. Today’s news includes the UN’s latest update on global methane emissions, as well as a call to climate action from Pope Leo XIV. We also explain the basics of the newest draft texts from the COP, which were published today in Belem by the organising team. They show there's still a long way to go to strike a final agreement on national emissions reduction plans, adaptation finance, and several other key issues. Given that the theme for today at the COP is forests and nature, our special guest interview is with Jack Hurd, head of the Earth System Agenda at the World Economic Forum. Jack is also executive director of the Tropical Forest Alliance. Bringing his three decades of experience in sustainable development and forests, Jack shares his hopes for the COP – and his views on whether it could truly help to create a world where forests are seen as more valuable standing than chopped down. Your hosts for this episode are: - edie content editor Sarah George - edie editor Matt Mace - Spingwise content editor Matilda Cox Say hello: [email protected]