Episode 17: Arresting Climate Change at COP25

Q: What annual event is the biggest, most important, and least fun party in the world?A: It's the United Nations' Conference of Parties (COP) to combat climate change.(Fine. It's more of a conference than a party…let it go, nerd.) Through December 13th, representatives from 200-ish nations are meeting in Madrid, Spain to discuss rising carbon emissions levels, carbon trading, the financing of climate change mitigation, and other initiatives to achieve a carbon neutral world by 2050. Despite the big achievement that was the 2015 Paris Agreement… things frankly are not looking amazing right now. In this week's episode, Steve and Soumi talk about COP 25, how we got here, experimental initiatives to combat climate change, and the political and economic difficulties the United States, China, and everyone else need to overcome in order to stem the tide of a changing climate. Further Reading:   https://thebulletin.org/2019/06/gaseous-molecules-of-freedom/   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-04/persistent-emissions-signal-global-climate-goal-out-of-reach   https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/11/cop25-climate-conference-priorities   https://www.politico.eu/article/cop25-climate-summit-6-things-to-know/   https://www.cbsnews.com/video/world-leaders-tackle-climate-change-at-cop25-summit/