COP30: Climate diplomats at an impasse on finance and fossil fuels

The UN climate summit in Brazil has ended with a deal that no makes no direct mention of the fossil fuels that are the main cause of global warming.

Also in today's programme: The continuing divisive legacy in Spain of the fascist dictator, General Franco; and the Argentinian writer who found out her nanny was a KGB killer.

Presenter Krupa Padhy is joined by Kate Orkin, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Oxford, and Charlotte Kilpatrick, an American journalist based in the UK who specialises in politics and health issues.

(Photo: Members of the Ethiopian delegation celebrate the announcement that the country will host COP32 during the closing COP30 plenary session at the Hangar Convention Center in Belem, Brazil, 22 November 2025. EPA/ Shutterstock)