Episode 3: Are we moving the needle on climate adaptation?

Welcome to COP30 Covered - the daily podcast show from the award-winning edie team which will be keeping you informed and inspired during the 2025 UN climate summit in Brazil. This third episode, released Monday 10th November 2025, is all about climate adaptation. We bring you the day's biggest headlines and the takeaways from the UN's Adaptation Gap Report, which revealed a decrease in global funding between 2022 and 2023 - even as the costs of extreme weather events soared. Our Dr Ajam Gambhir, director of systemic risk assessment at ASRA. ASRA was founded with a mission to help policymakers, business leaders and others to embed climate risk considerations into their decision-making processes. Such considerations should cover systemic and cascading risks. Dr Ghambir answers questions including: - Is it too late to be funding emissions cuts - should we focus on adaptation instead? - How can we scale up adaptation funding? - How can businesses improve their climate resilience planning? Your hosts are: - edie content editor Sarah George - edie editor Matt Mace - edie senior reporter Sidhi Mittal - Springwise commissioning editor Matthew Hempstead Say hello: newsdesk@fav-house.com