What’s India Building?: Tales from the Biggest Transition on Earth
"This will never work in India." That's what Indian truck manufacturers said about electric freight. Now they build the trucks. Something is...
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Face the climate crisis head on, but understand that we have the power to solve this. From former UN Chief Christiana Figueres and the team who brought you the Paris Agreement, this podcast...
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20 of 409 episodesIndia: Life Inside Delhi's 'Airpocalypse'
In Delhi, lung cancer is no longer a smoker’s disease. It’s a breather’s disease. But the most polluted capital on earth sits in a country r...
The Clock is Ticking: Forty Seconds to Explain the Climate Crisis
The summer of 2026 burned the largest wildfire in Spain's recorded history and the largest France has seen since the Second World War. June'...
Beyond Politics: Should we take the heat out of the climate crisis?
Somewhere along the way, acting on a threat to all of humanity became a political act. Not a simple matter of science and economics, but a s...
Cheapest Energy in History. Still Heading for 3 Degrees?
Solar power now costs a thousandth of what it did in 1976. Batteries are down more than ninety percent in a decade. By the logic of economic...
Europe’s Summer of Fire: The New Normal?
Europe is burning. Wildfires are still alight in the hills outside Bordeaux and the countryside west of Madrid. More than 300,000 people acr...
China, COP31 and Chagos: What’s happening behind the headlines?
In the nine hours after the Los Angeles wildfires, before the climate movement could get its shoes on, the narrative was being written. Thro...
Rosebank, Cambo, and the Conversation Christiana Never Got to Have
Five years ago, a 21-year-old activist stood on a TED stage next to the CEO of Shell and accused him of making ‘evil decisions’ wreaking ‘de...
Whose Side Is the Law On? How the Courts Became a Climate Battleground
"Even if you are small in this society, there is something you can do." Those are the words of Trixy Elle, a mother and a fisherwoman from t...
Is It Over? A Direct Answer to Climate Despair
Is it already too late? If you follow the climate crisis closely, despair is a reasonable and rational response to what you're looking at. T...
London Cooking: A Climate Action Week, a Resigning PM, and the Future of Climate Diplomacy
London Climate Action Week doesn't usually have to compete with extreme weather. But this year, the case for climate action was abundantly c...
From SpaceX to City Streets: Who Pays for the AI Data Centre Boom?
SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO has just created the world's first trillionaire. But for families in Morgan County, Georgia and Boxtown in South...
Extreme Heat Breaks: The hidden climate story behind the World Cup
For the first time, all 104 matches at the Men's Football World Cup will be stopped for a mandatory three-minute hydration break, halfway th...
The Agency Crisis: Heatwaves, Tony Blair and the Politics of Powerlessness
The UK, Ireland, France, Spain, and Portugal shattered their May heat records last week. Scenes reminiscent of high summer arrived months ea...
Can $30k Change the World? The Power of Climate Giving
When climate wins happen, we often credit the market. Or the policy. But is philanthropy the most underappreciated force in the climate figh...
Can the rules keep up?: Lawsuits, LLMs and the looming oil recession
An unprecedented government move to outrun the courts. A country racing to write AI into its constitution. And a global energy crisis that's...
The Jet Fuel Crisis: What’s next for aviation?
Are flights across the world about to be grounded? Is a terrible war about to create an unlikely good news story for the climate? As conflic...
David Attenborough at 100
Monarch butterflies crossing a continent. Peregrine falcons above Manhattan. A giant lemur most of the world had never heard of, until one m...
“This is civilisation changing stuff”: Is AMOC the hardest climate story to tell?
Europe plunged into a deep freeze. Life as we know it upended. The 2004 film ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ gave a generation of terrified journal...
Beyond the Oil Crisis: What’s actually blocking the transition?
The Iran crisis continues to prove how dangerously dependent the global economy is on fossil fuels. But what will it actually take to move b...