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Episode Five: How to face climate challenges in a fragmented world?

Episode Five: How to face climate challenges in a fragmented world?

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 This eight-part podcast series examining the Paris Agreement ten years on, featuring global climate leaders discussing progress, challenges, and the dramatic shift in power towards emerging economies. The series explores how multilateral cooperation has evolved despite geopolitical fractures, from industrial transformation and innovative financing to the changing rules of climate leadership. This episode examines how the optimistic "Spirit of Paris" from the 2015 COP21 climate summit has dissipated amid years of geopolitical disruption and global instability. The podcast is based on 28 interviews carried out globally by journalist Sophie Larmoyer on behalf of IDDRI, the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations. The optimistic "Spirit of Paris" from COP21 in 2015 has dissipated. A decade on, geopolitical fractures threaten the universal climate cooperation that underpinned the Paris Agreement. War and Energy "Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed everything," explains Laurence Tubiana of the European Climate Foundation. "Oil-producing countries took over the discussion, saying 'energy security is us.' And that changed everything." The resulting crisis, coupled with rising populism and declining democracy, has pushed climate ambition into the background. Brazilian researcher Sergio Gusmao Suchodolski notes that whilst over 50% of countries operated democratically twenty years ago, "less than 27% of countries adopt democracy as a system" today. Episode Four: climate crises - the urgency to adapt Science Under Attack Donald Trump's return to the US presidency exemplifies the assault on climate action. "They are taking apart the architecture of what we need to track climate change," warns Sonja Klinsky of the University of Arizona. "Removing funding for science, pulling websites down, defunding meteorological organizations. I cannot stress enough how destructive this administration is being." German activist Luisa Neubauer connects the patterns: "Those who are destroying our climate are destroying our democracies alike. For them it's all the same, so for us it must become a shared struggle." Episode Three: energy, the key to success Broken Promises Meanwhile, developing countries feel squeezed. "Climate policy is often seen as something imposed by the rich countries who put all their emissions into the air and has now come to tell us what to do," explains Hilton Trollip of the University of Cape Town. Indian researcher Arunabha Ghosh adds: "It's like you're dating someone for 10 years and your promises are not being kept. How much longer will you carry on in that kind of relationship?" Episode Two: the decarbonisation quest Yet experts insist progress remains possible. "The United States is one country," notes Klinsky. "We're giving them way more power than they deserve. There have been many times when they haven't been a strong climate leader. And yet multilateralism has continued." Brazil's Ana Toni, director general of COP30, calls for honest reassessment: "The multilateral system reflects the countries of the past. The world has changed totally. We need this refresh. Not being afraid to say we need to improve because international cooperation needs to change as well." Episode One: behind the scenes of a historic agreement Ten years after Paris, can climate action adapt to this new geopolitical reality whilst maintaining its universal ambition? That's the question this episode explores.
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