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Wicked Problems - Climate Tech Conversations — 174 episodes

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Pope Leo vs AI: Can Popes Move Markets?

2

Everybody Wants to Rule a Warmer World: Arthur Snell on his new book, Elemental

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Renewables as Reistance in Ukraine. w Svitlana Romanko of Razom We Stand

4

A Perfect Storm: Dana R. Fisher & Green Party CEO Harriet Lamb

5

Rumble in the Jungle COP

6

Trump nukes Net Zero Shipping

7

Laurie Laybourn on Overshooting 1.5°C

8

Touch the Feckin' Grass. w Bishop Martin Hayes, Jane Mellett, Eamon Ryan

9

Who is my Tu/Akoi (Neighbour)?

10

The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, with Kumi Naidoo

11

Confessions of a Climate Pilgrim

12

24/7/365 Dispatchable Solar Is Real. w/ EMBER's Kostantsa Rangelova & Dave Jones

13

Laudato Sì at 10, Pope Leo & COP30, w Dr Lorna Gold

14

How Apocalypse Makes Authoritarians, w Hanna E. Morris

15

EXCLUSIVE: Climate Heat Killed More People Than Murder in European City over 50 Years - Study

16

Tipping Points. They're not all bad. w/Steve Smith of Exeter's Global Systems Institute

17

Does Broken Britain Crave Chaos? w/Ed Hodgson, More in Common

18

Climate Science is now International Law

19

Climate is a National Security Issue w/Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti

20

Jenny Chase - Will Cheap Solar Kill The Grid?

21

Climate Change Is Waking Up Volcanoes. Yes, Really.

22

Climate has changed. For many, it's now move - or die. w/Gaia Vince

23

Abundance v Activism at London Climate Week (w Yasmine Abdu, Michael Spiekermann, Charles Perry)

24

Why, yes. I AM thinking about the Roman Empire. With Solitaire Townsend.

25

The Long Heat (with Wim Carton)

26

Covering climate in India (with Rishika Pardikar)

27

A Peruvian farmer lost in a German court. But it's a Pyrrhic victory.

28

The Story Behind Limits to Growth

29

Climate Diplomacy Is Doomed. Unless... (w Jessica Green)

30

Does 'climate tech' need (another) rebrand?

31

Who Pays for AI Power? (w Cat Clifford of Cipher)

32

Michael Barnard: Climate solutions can be full of sh*t

33

How Journalism Could Survive AI (w Mic Wright)

34

Cara Maesano of RMI: Can Heavy Industry Scale CDR?

35

They Blame it on the Sun

36

Is DAC dead? Can biotech CDR take its place?

37

RIP Norm(s) in American Energy, Carbon Removals, and Cheers

38

Geoengineer Once, Measure Twice

39

Climate "Realism" = Giving Up - Jeremy Wallace

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Charles Perry: Does South Africa offer a warning against fossil fuel "indoctrination"?

41

State of Climate Tech 2025: Is it over?

42

Tony Blair. Climate Vampire.

43

Is Britain in a climate tailspin?

44

Iberian Blackout: One-off Fiesta or Climate Warning?

45

Survive the Trumpocene: w Dana R Fisher

46

Solar Geoengineering: Ozempic or Chemo?

47

How to Live in a Chaotic Climate

48

Climate Needs an Addiopizzo to Fight Trump Mafia Extortion Tariffs

49

Playtime is Over

50

Heathrow was a wakeup call: ENODA founder Paul Domjan

51

Airport lights are going out all over Europe

52

Friendly Fire at Chatham House

53

Watch America With the Sound Off

54

We have to talk about Adaptation, with Ben Cooke of The Times

55

Data Dunkirk for Climate Science

56

Make Electricity Cheap Again + BP's Reverse Ferret

57

Climate is now a 'Hot War'. Strap In. Buy a Helmet. w/ Joseph Gelfer.

58

The Empire Strikes Back: Climate, Fires, Insurance, and Payback, w/ Dave Jones

59

SRM & Centering the Global South: Degrees Initiative

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More Apocalypse, Less Optimism - w Dana R. Fisher

61

The Mandate of Heaven (And Hell)

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We have to talk about geoengineering. Part 1.

63

Elon Musk should be afraid of this researcher.

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Well...all of that...happened.

65

The Burden of Being Right: Stephen Markley

66

Laurent Segalen: An electric NATO?

67

Derailment Risk, Doom Loops, and the End of Pretending

68

Whiskey's fer Drinkin; Water's fer Fightin.

69

Almost Saved by the Bell

70

Trump Energy Nominee in Non-Climate-Psycopath Shocker

71

Tadzio Müller Told Us So. Plus Windmills of Shame.

72

Climate Litigation's Big 2024 - could 2025 be even bigger?

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The Internet of Energy is Nigh: Alexina Jackson

74

100th Episode Special - Christmas Chaos Raccoon

75

RepAir's Yehuda Borenstein Has a Cunning Plan for Carbon Removals

76

Climate Doom Loop Offramps: ICJ and the CAN Bill

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RePowering: Faster, Better, Stronger w Exus North America CEO Jim Spencer

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The Apocalyptic Optimist: Dana R. Fisher

79

Sue the Bastards

80

Carbon Emitters on Trial at The Hague

81

A Steelman Case for Forest CDR: Lisett Luik, Arbonics

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Big Boy Rules

83

COP29, Dubai Ski Hats, and Small Island Fear and Loathing in Baku

84

Copium: You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do

85

COP29: After the Trump Win

86

We Resist

87

COP29's Poisoned Chalice? Chatham House's Ruth Townend on Azerbaijan, COP, and Climate Leadership

88

Manda Scott: Any Human Power, Fiction, Tech, Climate, and Thrutopia

89

Unusual Suspects

90

Oil Fought the Law: Standing Rock, BlackRock, and Climate Justice Cases Heating Up

91

Keep Climate Tech Weird, Part 2: Trading Places

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Keep Climate Tech Weird, Part 1

93

Paris Has Fallen: Rupert Read Strikes Back

94

Don't Hate on Climate Week

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Paris Has Fallen: Jim Skea (?)

96

The Deluge

97

Exclusive Audio: JD Vance's Screwtape Tape

98

VP Debate, Tory Leader, and Keeping Schtum on Climate

99

Can Democracy survive the collapse of the Gulf Stream?

100

Climate Tech's Poldark

101

Live at Labour 24

102

The Heat and the Fury

103

Scream If You Wanna Go Faster

104

Can renewables get the UK to clean power by 2030?

105

Sustainable Travel? With TripAdvisor's Justin Reid. And Can Kamala Save the IRA?

106

Front Row at Trump Assassination Attempt

107

How far can solar go? 40% by 2040?

108

Can Chris Stark be the Gareth Southgate of UK Climate Tech?

109

Tau Carbon Founders: What's Next for CDR?

110

About Last Night - Climate and the UK Election Result

111

Can Climate Litigation Save Us?

112

The Solar Age, with The Economist's Hal Hodson

113

The Future of Climate Justice

114

ClimateX $18m A round for adaptation; London Climate Week; Political Risk

115

Kristian Ruby, Eurelectric: Power to the People

116

Battery Belts and Boardroom Battles

117

¡UK Election Manifiesta! with E3G's Edward Matthew

118

Running Tide is Out; London Climate Week is In

119

'Deep' Diligence & Power for the Long Haul

120

Climate on the Ballot & Attribution Science Goes to Court

121

Tim McDonnell: Covering Climate in Wartime

122

David Shukman: Life after the BBC

123

Vermont: A New Hope

124

World Oceans Day

125

Akshat Rathi: Climate Capitalism

126

Jenny Chase on Solar, Scifi, Geese, and Michael Liebreich

127

Wil Burns: Responsible Carbon Removals

128

Ernest Scheyder: The War Below

129

Carbon Dioxide Removals: A Mammoth Task

130

Enhancing the Grid: What will it take?

131

ClimateWeek: 17 May 2024

132

Tasmin Lockwood: Who will speak for the trees?

133

Ben & Jerry's vs. Darth Vader, pt 2

134

Ben & Jerry's vs. Darth Vader, pt 1

135

Dr. Anatol Lieven: Can the Nation-State survive climate change?

136

What's the IRR of a sea wall?

137

Rupert Read & Liam Kavanagh: Is there a durable Climate Majority?

138

Fear and Loathing in Aberdeen; ECHR Climate Judgment Day; RheEnergize and $4Trillion in Solutions to Data Centres' Problem

139

Climate Comedy. It's Science.

140

The State of UK Climate Tech

141

Business Green's James Murray: Boots, Solar Panels, and a Terry Pratchett Theory of Net Zero Inequality

142

Freya Pratty (of FT-backed Sifted): Mission Zero's £22m A round for DAC led by 2150 and more 'buzzy' deals

143

MEP Ciarán Cuffe: Decarbonising EU's buildings. Ireland. Climate. COP. 2024.

144

Is carbon the new gold?

145

🚨SEC's Climate Disclosure Day: Ryan Skinner of Verdantix

146

Solitaire Townsend: Stories to Save The World

147

Zenobē Co-Founder Steven Meersman: From Costa Coffee to Climate Tech Titan

148

Tadzio Mueller: The Case for "Just Collapse"

149

TFT's Antony Yousefian: Soil will be the most valuable asset class

150

Christmas Bonus Best-of: Fan Fave Michael Barnard

151

G, ENSO Tyres CEO: Speaking from the heart

152

John Hartley, Levidian CEO: Turning trash gas into treasure

153

The Times/Ben Cooke's Christmas Books

154

Hannah Scott: Climate Tech Supercluster and Oxfordshire Greentech

155

Hitachi Energy CTO Gerhard Salge: Grids in a 3xRenewables World

156

Andy Reisinger & Temporary Overshoot: 1.5 is no longer a limit, it's a destination

157

Live(ish) from COP28UAE: Al Gore, Solarpunk, and Creativity with Visions2030

158

Who framed George Cove and kidnapped the solar future?

159

COP28 & RMI's Cara Maesano on Carbon Removal Pathways

160

Ulrich Seitz: The Next Big Thing in Climate Tech is Adaptation

161

Charlie Mercer: UK Autumn Budget - Jam Tomorrow for Climate Tech?

162

Climate Comedy Breakthrough

163

BAR Technologies - Decarbonising maritime shipping with sail

164

Mark Little: A Climate Newscast from 2050

165

The Prize (Cobalt): EVelution Energy's Gil Michel-Garcia

166

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

167

Susan Joy Hassol: Communications 1.5C in the rearview. Part 2.

168

Ketan Joshi: Communications with 1.5C in the rearview. Part 1.

169

BusinessGreen Net Zero Festival

170

Climate actions that will work. It's a short list. - Ep 5 - Climate Futurist Michael Barnard

171

Will new disclosure rules or COP28 have more lasting climate impact?

172

Can Carbon Markets Be More Than Hot Air? (BONUS)

173

Carbon Removal with UNDO CEO Jim Mann

174

Delusion, Expertise, and Humility: Christian Hernandez of 2150 VC