Marcele Oliveira, the Youth Climate Champion for COP30, Megan Bowman, Director of Centre for Climate Law & Governance and Professor of Climate Law, King’s College London and Arianna Griffa, Senior Policy Manager – Global, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change join hosts Jackie Peel and Bek Markey-Towler, in the ninth episode of Season 5 of Climate Talks to talk about what to expect from COP30.  

The clip at the beginning of the episode is from UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell speaking at Climate Week in New York. 

You can hear the clip in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRRqeo-xW48 

A new article from Megan Bowman is available here: M Bowman and T Tayler (2026) ‘Law and the International Financial Architecture: Pathways and Pivot points for achieving Paris objectives’ in A Research Agenda for Law, Finance and the Environment (M Bowman and L Mai (eds.), Edward Elgar, forthcoming): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5632470 

Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples as the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which this podcast was produced. 

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