After three decades of climate summits, endless negotiations, and carefully worded communiqués, global emissions are still rising.

The question is unavoidable: how can we improve the impact of COPs?

In this episode (and while fully supporting the overall value of COPs), we take a hard look at what’s no longer optimal, from the unanimity rule that gives every nation a veto to the strange taboo of not saying “fossil fuels” out loud.

We explore how the process might actually work better: smaller coalitions, modern voting, and a sharper focus on what really drives emissions.

Join David Carlin and Simon Messenger as they ask what it would take to make global climate diplomacy move at the speed of physics, not politics.