Today we look at the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan. World leaders, diplomats and climate scientists have gathered in Baku for the annual UN climate summit. Adam speaks to BBC climate editor Justin Rowlatt and host of The Climate Question Graihagh Jackson to find out what they’re hoping to achieve and why so few And, Emma Pinchbeck the incoming chief executive of the Climate Change Committee speaks to Adam about Keir Starmer’s plans for the climate and the impact of a Trump presidency on international climate cooperation. You can sign up to Justin’s Future Earth newsletter here: bbc.co.uk/futureearthnewsletter You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Gemma Roper. The technical producer was Daniel Ehrlich. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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The COP 29 Climate Change Conference is underway in Baku, which is the capital of Azerbaijan.
And all sorts of things have been happening.
It had quite a rocky start and people have been saying lots of stuff, but there's all the usual negotiations that we all got used to when the UK hosted COP26 in Glasgow a couple of years ago.
And you know that I find it so interesting covering that event and I've been really interested in COPS ever since.
And we will also be hearing from the new chief executive of the UK's Climate Change Committee, which kind of marks the government's homework and all of this stuff.
That's Emma Pinchbeck and she is speaking to newscast from COP 29 in her first week in that job.
So she is the brand new chief executive.
So it'll be really interesting to hear what she's got to say.
This episode of Newscast, Newscast, Newscast from the BBC.
Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio.
But mentally I am in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, because that is where the United nations sponsored climate change conference, COP 29 is taking place.
That's the sequel to COP 26, which was in Glasgow in 2021.
And COP stands for Conference of the Parties.
It's basically most countries in the world getting around an enormous table and many smaller tables to make pledges on how much they're going to cut their carbon emissions, how much they're going to spend on climate finance, particularly in developing countries, and also what they're going to do to adapt their infrastructure and their economies to the effects of climate change.
And you remember the Paris Climate change agreement in 2015, which kind of set the goals for these conferences, which is to try and keep the increase in global temperatures to between 1.5 degrees and 2 degrees compared to pre industrial levels.
That's what all these diplomats and a few world leaders are trying to achieve as part of the COP process.
So let's get an update from our man on the ground.
It's friend of the podcast, BBC climate editor Justin Rolatz.
Hello, Justin.