How China’s engineering mindset won the clean-tech race
In his new book Breakneck, tech analyst Dan Wang argues China’s engineering mindset has given it an edge in all sorts of domains, including climate technologies, while America’s lawyerly mindset is ho...
4 Dec 202526min
Bloomberg Australia: How Australia’s climate fight was rekindled
Australia has suffered a major climate setback, losing its bid to host next year’s COP summit in Adelaide. At the same time, the Coalition has reignited Australia’s climate wars by abandoning its comm...
28 Nov 202520min
Climate summits are working as they were designed: poorly
Over the last two weeks, tens of thousands of people took to the city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon river, for the annual United Nations climate summit: COP30. Alongside tense negotiations, the...
24 Nov 202527min
Al Gore: Fossil fuel companies are destabilizing democracy and environment
Climate solutions are here, they’re just not evenly distributed. So says former US Vice President Al Gore, who remains staunchly optimistic that we can move faster to tackle climate change, even at a ...
20 Nov 202536min
Al Gore says 'We may have passed peak Trump'
Former US Vice President Al Gore is one of the grandees of the climate world and knows just how much power America can wield on the international stage. So with President Trump on the warpath against ...
18 Nov 202532min
Exxon thinks it can count carbon better
Most oil company CEOs have turned their back on COP30, but not ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods, who this year attended his third COP conference in a row. This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi asks Woods why Exx...
12 Nov 202545min
Searching for climate solutions in the Amazon
COP30 negotiations have officially started, and began with a fight about what to put on the agenda. While not completely unexpected for these enormous multilateral gatherings, it’s a rockier start tha...
11 Nov 202536min
At COP30, the economic logic of climate action is up for debate
World leaders are gathering in Belem, Brazil, for the COP30 climate negotiations, but what will be achieved? Brazil hasn’t given much indication of what it hopes will emerge from the negotiations, oth...
6 Nov 202528min
