What were the day’s biggest announcements? How are businesses responding to the latest global climate commitments? And what’s happening behind the scenes at COP31? Join the award-winning edie team for this daily podcast covering the key developments, business reactions and big debates from the UN’s COP31 climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye.
Episode 13: The final agreement from Belém, explained
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: newsdesk@fav-house.com
20 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT
Episode 12: Antonio Guterres’s call to action and AI’s climate impact
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: newsdesk@fav-house.com
19 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT
Episode 11: Farmers, food systems and the fossil fuel roadmap
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: newsdesk@fav-house.com
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Episode 12: Antonio Guterres’s call to action and AI’s climate impact
Published 20 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's a significant and fast -growing use of energy being set to use as much energy monthly as the whole country of Japan by the end of 2025, which puts it into context pretty amazingly. AI also has a significant freshwater impact. So AI's projected water usage could hit 6 .6 billion metres cubed by 2027, predominantly for data center cooling. But the good news is that policymakers are increasingly aware of these issues and working to mitigate them and so are innovators. So the big news in this space at COP is the launch of the Green Digital Action Hub, which took place on Monday, which will act as a kind of central repository for data, expertise and tools to help nations implement green digital strategies. […]
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