Climate Summits Are Working as They Were Designed: Poorly
How will COP30 be remembered in years to come? Bloomberg Green’s Jennifer Dlouhy and Akshat Rathi discuss on the Zero podcast.
Demonstrators rally during the Fridays For Future Global Climate Strike on the sidelines of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025.
Photographer: Marina Calderon/BloombergOver the last two weeks, tens of thousands of people took to the city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon river, for the annual United Nations climate summit. Alongside tense negotiations, there were Indigenous protests, daily rainstorms and even a fire at the COP venue. But at the end of it all, what did COP30 achieve? Bloomberg Green’s Jennifer Dlouhy joins Akshat Rathi on Zero, to share her takeaways.
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