Carbon Brief's final 'Ask Us Anything' COP30 webinar

Following the end of COP30, Carbon Brief’s journalist answered a range of questions exclusively asked by its Insider Pass holders. COP30 officially closed at 8:44pm on Saturday evening, with the final gavel coming down and more than 150 pages of decision text adopted at the summit in Belém, Brazil. Less than 24 hours later, Carbon Brief published its 20,000-word summary of all the key outcomes from COP30. https://www.carbonbrief.org/cop30-key... It details the voluntary plan to curb fossil fuels, a goal to triple adaptation finance and new efforts to “strengthen” climate targets, among a range of other topics. Building on this, Carbon Brief journalists answered questions on climate finance, deforestation, agriculture, trade measures and much more within the webinar. The webinar was moderated by Carbon Brief’s editor, Leo Hickman, and featured the following Carbon Brief journalists: Dr Simon Evans, senior policy editor and deputy editor Daisy Dunne, associate editor Josh Gabbatiss, policy correspondent Molly Lempriere, section editor for policy Aruna Chandrasekhar, land, food systems and nature reporter Anika Patel, China analyst Giuliana Viglione, section editor for food, land and nature 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 00:00 Intro 02:09 What happened to a "roadmap" for deforestation? 04:14 Tropical Forests Forever Facility at COP30 07:05 Unpacking the "global mutirão" decision document 11:01 Who will be involved in the development of a fossil fuel "roadmap" 16:55 Upcoming conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels 18:07 Tripling adaptation finance by 2035 27:45 China at COP30 33:15 Trade measures 37:59 Outcomes for agriculture and food systems 42:38 Sharm el-Sheikh joint work on implementation of climate action on agriculture and food security 45:57 Article 6 carbon markets 52:14 What single policy decision will endure out of COP30? 1:01:20 What to look out for in the months ahead