Key issues at COP26: what is being discussed and what is left out?

In this episode of Climate Talks, hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke are joined by Margaret Young, Professor of Law, Brendan Wintle, Professor of Ecosystem and Forest Science, Alexei Trundle, Research Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development, all at the University of Melbourne, and Stephen Minas, Associate Professor of Law at Peking University. Topics discussed include climate adaptation, climate finance, carbon markets, the relationship developments in the international climate regime and those in other environmental areas, particularly focused on the biodiversity crisis and ocean pollution and management. The poem is by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and available in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpNTe4zfBgs. 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 Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.