How does corporate agriculture profit from conflict in Colombia?
Colombia is one of the most unequal countries in the world regarding agriculture and land ownership. Violence in the Colombian countryside h...
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The Economy, Land & Climate Podcast
Ed and Alasdair, from ELCI interview thinkers and policymakers in the world of economics, land-use and climate policy. Find more on the ELCI site at
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20 of 133 episodesIn Review: Plastics
With five and a half years of content, The Land and Climate Podcast has an overwhelmingly large back catalogue. We have always aimed to prod...
Is reducing energy use a political taboo?
Solar and wind power is growing worldwide, but so is electricity consumption: as a result, renewables are often only added to the energy mix...
Is geoengineering a security threat?
Geoengineering research is growing, as scientists look for increasingly radical means to protect humanity from the disastrous impacts of glo...
Are financial markets destroying climate ambition?
Click here to watch the video recording of this interview. In her latest book, Ann Pettifor argues that we are not governed by politicians o...
Can ocean technologies combat climate change?
Most net zero policies and major scientific models rely on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to limit global heating to 2℃. The most commonly kno...
Was Chinese history shaped by climateflation?
The 17th Century Little Ice Age wreaked havoc on weather systems and economies around the world. In China, extreme cold and intense droughts...
What is the history of extinction?
Scientists warn we are in an age of mass-extinction. Entire species are ceasing to exist at unprecedented rates. When did this age begin, an...
Has the plastics industry co-opted the circular economy?
Last year, multilateral negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty broke down after countries failed to agree to limits on plastic production...
Is the idea of 'energy transition' misleading?
What happens after a country's electricity infrastructure is destroyed by war? Following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Turkish conglomera...
How do trade unions influence climate policy?
The labour movement has contributed to climate and environmental policy for decades, and developed the concept of a ‘just transition’. Despi...
Growing pains: how will the fertiliser crisis affect food supply?
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Is Big Tech telling the truth about AI's climate impact?
With the recent 'AI Boom', the energy demand of computing has risen dramatically. As generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatb...
Why is wellbeing ignored in climate modelling?
Climate change is making the lives of many more difficult. Tens of millions of people are already displaced by weather events each year, and...
Are the Iran protests a climate story?
Long before the recent economic crash and brutal killings of protestors in Iran, the country faced enduring environmental crises. Depleted d...
Are Russian climate politics changing?
In September 2025, Vladimir Putin acknowledged that the climate crisis presents “risks” for Russia that are “very dangerous”. Though not unp...
What does the US really see in Greenland?
President Trump has long expressed ambitions to annex Greenland, with mentions of the US acquiring the Danish autonomous territory dating ba...
Are we closer to reaching clean energy than we might think?
Bertie is joined by Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, whose research formed the founda...
Can climate cause regime change?
Last September, power cuts and water shortages triggered civil unrest in Madagascar, leading to the dissolution of its government. In recent...
Meltdown: is it too late for the Arctic?
The Arctic is heating four times faster than the global average, with scientists predicting the Arctic Ocean will be completely free of ice...