As COP30 reaches the midway point, Carbon Brief hosted the second of three webinars to exclusively answer questions submitted by holders of the Insider Pass. The webinar featured seven Carbon Brief journalists – including three on the ground in Belém – covering all elements of the summit: Leo Hickman – director and editor Dr Simon Evans – deputy editor and senior policy editor Daisy Dunne – associate editor Josh Gabbatiss – policy correspondent Orla Dwyer – Food, land and nature reporter Aruna Chandrasekhar – land, food systems and nature journalist Molly Lempriere – policy section editor Our Creative Commons license: you are welcome to reproduce original material unadapted in full for non-commercial use, credited ‘Carbon Brief’ with a link to the original article. Please contact us for commercial use. https://www.carbonbrief.org Music credit: Into Infinity artists Unrecognisable Now, Naohito Uchiyama, Languis (CC BY-NC 3.0 US).