Welcome back to Wicked Problems - the climate tech podcast that has to be as good as other podcasts, but backwards and in heels.
and chat through Akshat Rathi’s new book, Climate Capitalism.They also reflect on their reactions to the new research that says staying under 1.5C of warming might be out of reach, their conversations with Ketan Joshi and Susan Joy Hassol. And the answers to the question, what should we be saying about the 1.5C target in light of their new research - from Leo Hickman of Carbon Brief, asked by James Murray at the BusinessGreen Net Zero Festival, and Akshat Rathi of Bloomberg and Solitare Townsend of the consultancy, Futerra.
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Some of the episodes and resources we reference:
Climate Capitalism, by Akshat Rathi - tl;dl - It’s great and you should buy multiple copies.
1.5C in the rearview. Part 2. Susan Joy Hassol.
Listen now (28 mins) | At the urging of small and vulnerable island nations, the 2015 Paris Agreement set a goal of limiting warming from climate change to 1.5 degrees C. In the years since, the language of that goal has crept into thousands of corporate sustainability reports, media discourse, and the language of international climate diplomacy. According to Google, the volu…
1.5° C in the rear-view mirror. Part 1.
Listen now (46 mins) | Welcome back to Wicked Problems - Climate Tech Conversations. Hotter than a James Hansen effigy at a Guy Fawkes bonfire night. Get these episodes first and our newsletter at news.wickedproblems.uk. That James Hansen paper, Global Warming in the Pipeline
BG Net Zero Festival
Listen now (46 mins) | Welcome back to Wicked Problems. It’s been quite a week and we’re not even halfway through yet. So on Halloween Richard Delevan did some reporting at Day One of the Business Green Net Zero Festival. This episode offers you some excerpts of some of the best conversations from the day, as well as some chats with those intrepid folks working the booths. You’ll hear from
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