OIES Podcast – Reflections on the Bonn Climate Conference

In this latest OIES podcast Michal Meidan talks to James Henderson about his recent comment on the Bonn Climate Conference which was published in July 2025. In the podcast they discuss the role of the Bonn conference and its place in the ongoing climate negotiations, as well as the key themes on the agenda. They assess why the negotiations were delayed for two days, why the topic of finance pervaded all the discussions and what the outcomes mean for the outlook for COP30 in Brazil in November. They look at how the topics of mitigation, adaptation, the Loss and Damage Fund and the role of fossil fuels were debated, as well as considering the future of climate negotiations overall and the chance that COP30 could lead to heated conversations about whether the process is fit for purpose. The podcast also covers the geopolitics of the climate negotiations, with the backdrop of the withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement, and assesses the chances of new and more ambitious emissions and other climate targets being set by all the COP delegates by the time COP30 takes place in just over three months time.

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