In this special episode hosts Mark Maslin and Simon Chin Yee give us behind the scenes insights and their verdicts on the outcome of COP29.  

This COP was mainly about the money and went into extra time, but our hosts unpack it and take a deep dive into the key results with the help of special guests in the studio Priti Parikh, Professor of Infrastructure Engineering and International Development, at UCL’s Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction and Anoushka Jain, a UCL Politics and International Relations student and member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition.  We even round off this episode with some post COP music therapy!   Let the spine tingling music wash over you.  It’s a new composition from the collaboration between UCL and the BBC Young Composer project. 

UCL teamed up with the BBC Young Composer competition to inspire the winners to create brand new pieces based on UCL’s climate science. Composing for the Climate is a collaboration between UCL and the BBC as part of East Bank – the UK’s newest culture quarter on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park where UCL has a campus.  

BBC music credits:

©  BBC ‘Gaia’ composed by BBC Young Composer competition winner Advaith Jagannath. Recording made as part of the BBC Proms 2024, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and conducted by Hugh Brunt.

BBC Radio 3 website to hear the full pieces: BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms - BBC Young Composer Winners: The Process and Music

Website for BBC Young Composer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p030pblf

Find out more about UCL at COP29  https://www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/ucl-cop 

Date of episode recording: Monday 25th November 2024
Duration: 41:57

Language of episode: English

Presenters: Professor Mark Maslin and Dr Simon Chin-Yee
Guests:

Professor Priti Parikh

Anoushka Jain
Producer:  Adam Batstone

Executive producers: Caitlin Mullin, Jane Yelloly