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Heathrow was a wakeup call: ENODA founder Paul Domjan
We can't be lucky all the time.
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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
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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.
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Julia Kumari Drapkin
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Taco Engelaar
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Gus Grand
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Lucy Cotton
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Richard Delevan
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John Hartley
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DeepSeek Deep Sixes Energy Equities
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Thank God for Englishmen!
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The Deluge
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Our Books of 2024. With Wine Pairings. (Non-Fiction).
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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
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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.
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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. …
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Richard Delevan
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Ivo J. Mensch
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Jonathan Gilmour
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Climate Majority Project
59:41
Make Electricity Cheap Again + BP's Reverse Ferret
UK 7th Carbon Budget, Save NZIP!, and 'Gulf of America'-worthy scenes from BP's £1-billion-losing volte-face to cling to oil & gas
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Richard Delevan
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Charlie Mercer
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Liam Hardy
53:35
Climate is now a 'Hot War'. Strap In. Buy a Helmet. w/ Joseph Gelfer.
'Solitaire Townsend with an Axe' joins the show. Plus some found sound, from the damned and the saved.
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Richard Delevan
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Joseph Gelfer
The Uninsurable Earth, and the Arc of History
History is happening. But not as we know it.
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Richard Delevan
1:26:59
Empire Strikes Back: Climate, Fires, Insurance, + Dave Jones
Plus Green Alliance's Steve Coulter talks insurance backing for fossil & Dana Drugmand on Big Oil hitting back at the Empire State
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Richard Delevan
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Dana Drugmand
53:00
Degrees Initiative, Centering the Global South
We have to talk about SRM, part 2. With Andy Parker, founder and CEO of Bristol-based The Degrees Initiative.
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Richard Delevan
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Andy Parker
1:01:20
Witnessing the Trumpocalypse, with Dana R. Fisher
Author of "Saving Ourselves" returns to the show as the US slides towards political violence and climate silence
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Richard Delevan
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Dana R Fisher
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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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