Episode 02: Good COP Bad COP

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The annual “Conference of the Parties,” which you probably know as COP, is the biggest multilateral climate negotiation of all time. It’s led to landmark climate deals like the Kyoto Protocol or Paris Accords.

But lately, COP has been under fire for giving fossil fuel interests a big seat at the table, among other things. Plus, the actual effects of the climate deals set at COPs past are hazy at best.

On this episode, Simona and Alex explore whether these big, multinational climate discussions are useful, or just political handwringing by talking with a writer who has covered COP and two academics who have attended past conferences.

Guests: Alexandria Herr, climate writer and researcher; Kian Mintz-Woo, permanent lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at University College Cork; and Laura Marsiliani, economics professor at Durham University.