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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 www.elc-insight.org

What happens after a country's electricity infrastructure is destroyed by war? Following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Turkish congl...

The labour movement has contributed to climate and environmental policy for decades, and developed the concept of a ‘just transition’. Despi...

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With the recent 'AI Boom', the energy demand of computing has risen dramatically. As generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatb...

Climate change is making the lives of many more difficult. Tens of millions of people are already displaced by weather events each year, and...

Long before the recent economic crash and brutal killings of protestors in Iran, the country faced enduring environmental crises. Depleted d...

In September 2025, Vladimir Putin acknowledged that the climate crisis presents “risks” for Russia that are “very dangerous”. Though not unp...

President Trump has long expressed ambitions to annex Greenland, with mentions of the US acquiring the Danish autonomous territory dating ba...

Bertie is joined by Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, whose research formed the founda...

Last September, power cuts and water shortages triggered civil unrest in Madagascar, leading to the dissolution of its government. In recent...

The Arctic is heating four times faster than the global average, with scientists predicting the Arctic Ocean will be completely free of ice...

This week, Bertie Harrison-Broninski speaks with Professor Annette Kehnel, Chair of Medieval History at the University of Mannheim. Kehnel g...

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has claimed that nuclear fusion can be harnessed within the next five years, and that its application to th...

Controversial efforts at space tourism, such as by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, have reignited old debates about the purpose of space exploratio...

In 2006, the Masdar City project was launched in the United Arab Emirates. Supported by $22 billion in state-funding, it aimed to be the wor...

Global heating in 2024 exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, but most governments continue to extend fossil fuel use. Are we now in a p...

As the energy transition accelerates, critical minerals have become increasingly important, and the priorities of extraction for countries i...

Alasdair speaks with Jessica F. Green, author of the new book Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to F...

Bertie speaks with Mark Parrington about this year’s record-breaking wildfires, and the health implications of increasing air pollution. Mar...

Next week, negotiators meet in Geneva to finalise the UN’s historic Global Plastics Treaty, originally announced in 2022. The additional ses...

In April, the International Maritime Organisation held the 83rd session of its Environment Protection Committee, where it established a syst...

Yesterday, the U.S. Congress approved President Donald Trump's so-called 'Big Beautiful Bill'. This controversial federal bud...

In 2022, Gustavo Petro became the first left-wing candidate to win the Colombian presidential election. During his election campaign, Petro...

Germany's 2025 federal election saw the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) double its support to 20.8%, becoming the second la...

From widespread industrial pollution to emerging as a green powerhouse, China’s economic evolution shows how grassroots activism has pushed...

A UK government agency recently announced it would spend £57 million on a controversial project to develop geoengineering technologies. The...

On 6th June 2023, the Nova Kakhovka dam was breached while under Russian occupation, releasing a wave of toxic pollution into Ukraine’s rive...

In 2022, the Swedish government granted an exploitation concession to Jokkmokk Iron Mines AB — a subsidiary of British company named Beowulf...

Nearly half of the global agriculture market is controlled by four companies. This level of concentration - driven by decades of mergers and...

It is becoming common for the fossil fuel industry to sue governments that attempt to decarbonise over “lost future profits.” They do so via...

With India kicking off 2025 with an historic space-docking experiment, and Elon Musk's growing power in the US government raising quest...

Alasdair speaks to journalist Margot Gibbs about her investigation into a US government-funded PR firm that profiled pesticide scientists. L...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 shocked global energy markets, and changed the EU's long and short-term plans for decarbonisa...

In a recently published report, “Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests”, Dr. Oscar Berglund and his colleague...

“The capitalist system is necessarily built on creating ecological crises.” Bertie speaks to Ståle Holgersen about his new book Against the...

One month ago, Prabowo Subianto was inaugurated as the new president of Indonesia. An investigation by The Gecko Project has revealed that S...

This year, Land and Climate Review’ s first investigative series has documented more than 11,000 breaches of environmental law at North Amer...

As the UN Biodiversity Conference draws to a close Bertie speaks to María Arango, a lawyer at the international human rights organization Fo...

“In 2022, Indonesia only consumed about 70,000 tonnes of wood for electricity. In 2023, we consumed almost half a million.” Alasdair speaks...

Bertie speaks to Sherri Goodman about her new book, Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security. From...

Last week, Greenpeace Africa published their new report “Fast Fashion, Slow Poison: The Toxic Textile Crisis in Ghana”. The report outlines...

In 2015, 196 countries signed the Paris Agreement, a legally binding treaty with the goal of limiting global heating to 1.5°C above pre-indu...

Many governments are wary of providing transparency around their militaries' emissions, and campaigners can be hesitant to focus on the...

Alasdair speaks to Jonas Algers about steel decarbonisation; what the options are, where there are challenges, and what is happening so far....

Bertie speaks to fashion expert and journalist Alden Wicker about her book To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick - and How We Can...

Alasdair speaks to former politician and French investigating magistrate Eva Joly about corporate corruption, tax evasion, and how these iss...

Ed speaks to Brett Christophers about his new book The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet. Brett Christophers is a profess...

Few countries have specific targets about converting to organic farming, and when they have, it's often failed - Sri Lanka dropped its...

Alasdair speaks to Peter Wohlleben about his new book How Trees Can Save the World . Peter Wohlleben is a forester and author who has writte...

Alasdair speaks to Faustine Bas-Defossez about the relationship between sustainable farming policy and the European farmers' protests....