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Goodfellas vs. The Shipping Forecast: Trump nukes the IMO
UCL's Tristan Smith, Ship.Energy's Ariane Morrissey, and Opportunity Green's Carly Hicks on the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Net Zero…
 • Richard Delevan, Carly Hicks, and Tristan Smith
43:26
How to survive 1.5: Laurie Laybourn on his new documentary series, 'Overshoot'.
Are we sailing into the storm or are we already in the belly of the whale?
 • Richard Delevan and Laurie Laybourn
56:45
Confessions of a Climate Pilgrim at the Vatican
The Pope, the Terminator, and a Podcaster walk into a bar...
 • Richard Delevan and Colleen Dulle
50:39
24/7/365 Dispatchable Solar Is Real. w/ EMBER's Kostantsa Rangelova & Dave Jones
But - shock - some places work better than others.
 • Richard Delevan, Dave Jones, and Kostantsa Rangelova
52:56
Laudato Sì at 10, Pope Leo & COP30, w Dr Lorna Gold
Pope Francis’ 2015 letter influenced climate from the Paris Agreement to the ICJ advisory opinion. But is it still relevant in a fossil-fuelled “drill…
 • Richard Delevan
1:01:00
How Apocalypse Makes Authoritarianism
Dr. Hanna E Morris on her weirdly prescient study on how certain climate narratives can lead us astray.
 • Richard Delevan and Hanna E. Morris
25:50
EXCLUSIVE: Climate Change Killed More People Than Murder. In Zürich. Yes, that Zürich.
We're back from an unplanned extended summer break. There's a lot to cover.
 • Richard Delevan and Dr. Rupert Stuart-Smith
Back to School Ennui
This year I did something I almost never do - I really unplugged for most of the last two weeks, spent in the Provence-Alps bit of France.
 • Richard Delevan
39:52
Tipping Points. But not all bad. w/Steve Smith
The UK's tipping into an EV market, accelerated by BYD, is a good example of why it's not pointless to try.
 • Richard Delevan and Steven R Smith
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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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