Climate Capitalism, Optimism, Fatalism, and 1.5C in the rearview

Welcome back to Wicked Problems - the climate tech podcast that has to be as good as other podcasts, but backwards and in heels.Richard and Claire 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.Subscribe at news.wickedproblems.uk to get more episodes, and our newsletter.Some of the episodes and resources we reference:* Climate Capitalism, by Akshat Rathi - tl;dl - It’s great and you should buy multiple copies.Other episodes we reference: Ketan Joshi, Susan Joy Hassol, BusinessGreen Net Zero Festival, Alastair Campbell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.