How climate reached the world's elite in Davos, with Gail Whiteman
This January, Davos will once again host the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting and bring together the world's business and political elite. In recent years, climate change has climbed ever further...
12 Jan 202333min
How to quit your job for the climate
What causes a restaurant critic to trade the gourmet for the green? Why does a Shell geophysicist leave their decade-long career working on oil and gas fields? What makes a war-crimes lawyer want to p...
5 Jan 202326min
Should the climate movement embrace property destruction? with Andreas Malm
Throughout history, no social movement has succeeded without utilizing property destruction as a tactic, and if the climate movement is to be effective it will have to do the same. So says Andreas Mal...
15 Dec 202245min
Are democracies up to the climate challenge? with Daniel Fiorino
The task of cutting emissions is becoming more urgent by the day. Are democracies up to the challenge? Do we have time to let the usual course of consensus-building and debate play out, or should gove...
8 Dec 202229min
How did a good idea go so wrong? Carbon offsets with Mark Trexler
Carbon offsets are everywhere – a $2 billion dollar industry that’s set to grow even more as the US is even incorporating them in its effort to fulfill international climate pledges. Yet in the thirty...
1 Dec 202234min
The world’s food system needs a radical rethink, with George Monbiot
What’s worse for the planet than Big Oil? The world’s food system, argues environmental journalist and campaigner George Monbiot in his new book Regenesis. He makes a passionate case for how current a...
24 Nov 202240min
Why it’s so hard to invest in clean energy in Africa
COP27 ended with a historic agreement on loss and damage, but other major challenges remain — including the gap that has long existed between energy needs in Africa and the funding that the continent ...
22 Nov 202231min
The lengths Lewis Pugh goes to save the oceans
Lewis Pugh has swum across seas and in between melting sea ice, but the hardest part of his work is what comes after – contributing to negotiations to protect those same bodies from development. And h...
17 Nov 202234min
