What do Brazil’s elections mean for Indigenous issues?
Brazil’s historic election results have been a rollercoaster ride for the country and the international community. President Luiz Inácio Lul...
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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 137 episodesHow does capital steal from the future?
How is a monopoly organised? What does 'the economy' really mean? Is the conception of growth misleading? To answer these big questions, Tim...
Do ancient mass extinctions offer lessons for our future?
Environmental journalist Edward Struzik returns to the Land and Climate Podcast to discuss his latest book, Animal Diaspora: Decoding Ice Ag...
Why is TotalEnergies facing allegations of war crimes in Mozambique?
Content advisory: this episode describes events that listeners may find distressing. Five years ago, in the small coastal town of Palma, Moz...
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...
In 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...