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The Fiery Trial
 • Richard Delevan
The Uninsurable Earth, and the Arc of History
 • Richard Delevan
DeepSeek Deep Sixes Energy Equities
 • Richard Delevan
Solar Geoengineering: Climate Chemo or Ozempic?
 • Richard Delevan, Pete Irvine, and Josh Horton
Thank God for Englishmen!
 • Richard Delevan
The Deluge
 • Richard Delevan
41:42
Trump tariffs need an Addiopizzo...or a Sicilian Vespers
Until we stop treating POTUS like anything other than a mob boss shaking down the world, we will lack the imagination to do anything useful about it.
 • 
Richard Delevan
Mr Booker Goes to Washington
I've been distracted. So a bit late getting out other things. But spending 10 minutes on this is worth your while.
 • 
Richard Delevan
3
41:47
Seems Like Playtime Is Over
Violence and America's near future; Heathrow, Kemi, and Abundance with Adam Bell; Prashant Rao on bargain renewable investments
 • 
Richard Delevan
, 
Adam Bell
, and 
Prashant Rao
35:13
Heathrow was a wakeup call: ENODA founder Paul Domjan
We can't be lucky all the time.
 • 
Richard Delevan
23:25
Airport lights are going out all over Europe
Eurelectric Sec Gen Kristian Ruby on how Europe needs to prepare for a post-Ukraine time of energy threats
 • 
Richard Delevan
1:26:01
Friendly Fire at Chatham House
Climate tech heroes led the final session of the Climate and Energy Summit 2025 and for some reason I was allowed to chair the event.
 • 
Julia Kumari Drapkin
, 
Taco Engelaar
, 
Gus Grand
, 
Lucy Cotton
, 
Richard Delevan
, and 
John Hartley
34:56
Wärtsilä: Staying the course through the energy transition tempest
At Chatham House in London, we spoke with the Finnish tech giant's head of strategy, Malin Östman
 • 
Richard Delevan
27:47
We have to talk about Adaptation, with Ben Cooke of The Times
Returning champion Ben Cooke talks us through why the UK's paper of record devoted a whole series to adaptation.
 • 
Richard Delevan
1:01:02
Data Dunkirk for Climate
Sometimes heroism consists of saving what we can, to fight another day. And you can help. Jonathan Gilmour, Rajan Desai, and Jeremy Hertzog tell us. …
 • 
Richard Delevan
, 
Ivo J. Mensch
, 
Jonathan Gilmour
, and 
Climate Majority Project
Wicked Problems
Wicked Problems
We cover climate tech: where business, science, politics, tech, and culture meet and shape the future. And whether it's one you'd want to live in.
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