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Aug 10, 2025 28 min

Connecting climate science to the COPs

from Climate Talks Hosted by Melbourne Climate Futures

Jim Skea, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Winston Chow, Co-Chair, Working Group II at the IPCC and Professor of Urban Climate and a Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow at Singapore Management University’s College of Integrative Studies and Virginia Marshall, Research Fellow at the School of Regulation and Global Governance with the Australian National University and Member at the Climate Change Authority, join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the sixth episode of Season 5 of Climate Talks to talk about the role of climate science in the COPs. You can read the COP30 Presidency’s fourth letter here: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/Fourth_CPD_Letter.pdf The clip at the beginning of the episode is from UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell speaking at the final day of the UN June Climate Meetings in June in Bonn. You can hear the clip in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGqsg4-VM4 Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples as the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which this podcast was produced. Subscribe to Climate Talks on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.

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