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Zero: The Climate Race — 245 episodes

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When AI and climate anxieties collide to make beautiful stories: Imagine Series

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Bloomberg Australia: Lessons from the world's cleanest air

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Ditching net zero to win the climate argument

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The selfish case for supporting foreign aid

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Is the world prepared for the 'super' El Niño?

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Is the world becoming too hot for summer sports?

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Solar and batteries are thriving — even in Trump’s America

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The energy transition debate we need to have

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Ice cream fight: Can companies have a social conscience in 2026?

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How Asia’s ‘Ukraine moment’ is supercharging the energy transition

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The countries plotting the end of the fossil-fuel era

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Reform’s Richard Tice wants to end decades of UK climate action

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Electrons will be central to the next era of geopolitical stability

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The Iran war shows why clean energy is the more secure choice

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A new world order is emerging. Can it tackle climate change?

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London’s mayor on lessons from one of the world’s greenest cities

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Caution, not ambition, will shape the next decade of climate action

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How the Iran war will reshape the future of energy

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Climate tech makes Europe more resilient to Iran War shocks

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Here's Why: The Iran war resets the energy transition

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Zack Polanski’s plan to tax billionaires and make energy affordable

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Big Take: The energy crisis is speeding up clean tech adoption worldwide

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The future of climate science without US support

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‘Everywhere I looked, climate change bled’ Abi Daré on writing fiction: Imagine series

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War with Iran is a nightmare for oil and gas. What does it mean for clean energy?

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Lessons to avoid societal collapse, from 5,000 years of history

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(Sponsored Content) Evolving Money: Blue Chip Meets Blockchain

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Ethiopia’s fossil fuel car ban is a vision of the future

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Do artists have a duty to be political? Imagine series

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Electricity is now holding back growth across the global economy

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George Saunders goes inside the mind of a climate denier: Imagine series

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Electrification – not decarbonization – is the climate story of 2026

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Did we get climate finance all wrong?

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America the bully becomes the supreme petrostate

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Abundance or adequacy? The search for better climate futures: Imagine series

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Update: Have China's emissions finally peaked?

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How cash-strapped Argentina became a bright spot for renewables

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Is this the end of Canada's climate ambitions?

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How China’s engineering mindset won the clean-tech race

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Bloomberg Australia: How Australia’s climate fight was rekindled

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Climate summits are working as they were designed: poorly

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Al Gore: Fossil fuel companies are destabilizing democracy and environment

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Al Gore says 'We may have passed peak Trump'

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Exxon thinks it can count carbon better

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Searching for climate solutions in the Amazon

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At COP30, the economic logic of climate action is up for debate

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What did 10 years of the Paris Agreement actually achieve?

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The world’s biggest consumers of electricity are hidden in plain sight

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The ‘science’ behind economics explains the big problems we face

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What climate tech is overhyped and what's not

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US fossil fuels vs. Chinese clean tech, who’s winning on exports?

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Renewables promised to be cheap. Why aren’t people feeling it?

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Big Take: AI data centers use a lot of energy. You may be paying for it

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A return to coal? AI’s demand for gas turbines risks a new crisis: Bottlenecks Series

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The extraordinary rise of electric cars in developing countries

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Building monuments to the end of oil: Imagine series

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Formula E shows the mind-boggling speed at which electric cars evolve

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Your questions answered: Is Donald Trump a climate warrior in disguise?

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Big Take: How hot is too hot? The latest science on extreme heat

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Best of: Kim Stanley Robinson imagines utopia in 2025

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The 100-ton device that can stop blackouts in the renewables era: Bottlenecks Series

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Build small, grow fast: Can small modular reactors live up to the hype?

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How rich countries can build cheap nuclear power again

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How a bunch of students beat big polluters in the world's highest court

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Trump’s immigration policy is a nightmare for climate tech

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How to fight against Trump’s attack on clean energy

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Trumponomics: Will Trump’s bill trigger a ‘Big, Beautiful’ energy crunch?

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Why militaries can no longer ignore climate change

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(Sponsored Content) Stewards of Compassion: Doing Business With Compassion

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The UK now has a state-owned clean-energy champion. Can it succeed?

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What a venture capitalist does when climate tech loses its shine

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Have China’s emissions finally peaked?

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There aren’t enough cables to meet rising electricity demand: Bottlenecks Series

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A skilled worker shortage is becoming an ‘existential’ problem for the energy transition: Bottlenecks Series

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The device throttling the world’s electrified future: Bottlenecks Series

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How carbon removal pioneer Climeworks is tackling its first major layoff

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A trillion-dollar fund manager on climate investing in 2025

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How Australia’s natural resources will shape global emissions

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(Sponsored Content) Stewards of Compassion: The Origins of B.Grimm

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Can Carney transform Canada from climate laggard to leader?

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Bloomberg Australia: Will it be a climate election yet again?

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Why investors avoid developing countries, and how to change that: Moving Money

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These 'beautiful' banks are expected to save climate finance: Moving Money

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How the financial system can work for climate, not against it: Moving Money

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Is Tesla’s EV supremacy in the rearview mirror?

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Best of: Searching for climate solutions amid the AI hype

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How water scarcity is threatening the global economy

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In Barbados, Mia Mottley offers pragmatism and hope from a sinking island

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Big Take: A Warming Planet vs. Trump

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It’s not just Trump. Canada’s climate policies face a bumpy road post-Trudeau

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Why (almost) everyone hates ESG right now

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As COP16 resumes in Rome, biodiversity funding is on the line

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Green growth is expensive. The global economy can afford it.

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The UK’s £200 billion plan for carbon-free power by 2030

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What happens to the energy transition with the US exiting the Paris Agreement?

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Best of: COP30 president on how Brazil is looking to supercharge climate action

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To understand Trump's climate moves in his second term, look to the Reagan years

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Will the LA fires unleash a wave of climate migrants?

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Odd Lots: This is how China builds so much nuclear power

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If 1.5C is dead, what happens next?

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Kim Stanley Robinson imagines utopia in 2025

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Best of: How the humble refrigerator changed the world

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TED Talks Daily : Capitalism broke the climate. Now it can fix it

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Cutting through the climate tech hype and looking for profit

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What Thomas Edison’s legacy looks like in the 21st century

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COP29's last-minute deal is a miracle and a mess

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Step aside, COP29. How Brazil is looking to supercharge COP30

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The White House’s outgoing climate czar weighs in on Trump

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Big Take: COP29 confronts tensions over funding clean energy transition

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What is the Exxon CEO doing on a climate podcast?

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The world needs climate leadership. Can Azerbaijan step up?

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Trump is coming back. Now what?

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Listen Now: US Election Coverage on Bloomberg Podcasts

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Best of: 2C or not 2C? That is the question. Climate summits as Shakespeare would see them.

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Big Take: How China’s BYD became the king of affordable electric cars

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Vinod Khosla is trying to change Elon Musk’s mind on Trump, the economy and climate

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The backlash against EVs is growing. Uber is pushing back.

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Who wins when 'hurricane investors' gamble on catastrophes

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The fight over finance brewing at COP29: Moving Money

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Colombia is quitting fossil fuels. Can it convince other countries to follow its lead?

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Inside the race to open the world’s first nuclear fusion power plant

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Trump vs Harris: What you need to know about their climate plans

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War and peace-building on a heating planet

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Big Take: The billion-dollar promise of flying taxis

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The sleek, fuel-saving airplanes coated with synthetic shark skin

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The greenest reason to drill: clean geothermal power that's always on

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How the humble refrigerator changed the world

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Healthy? Extreme heat could still threaten your life

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Wires carrying twice the power show the future: The Grid Series

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The unstoppable march toward electrification: The Grid Series

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Upgrading the world’s biggest machine: The Grid Series

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The climate activist trying to change banks from the inside

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Stacey Abrams on how kitchen-table decisions can cut emissions

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An oil lobbyist gets the Shakespearean treatment in ‘Kyoto’

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There are now 800 carbon removal startups. How many is too many?

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Why Bill Gates is investing big in nuclear power

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Making sense of “compound” climate impacts in a time of global weirding

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The 21st century will be shaped by fire

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Big Take Asia: Will the world's biggest nuclear power plant get a restart?

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Is Tesla on the road to irrelevance?

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Searching for climate solutions amid the AI hype

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Microsoft wanted to be carbon negative. Then it went big on AI

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Why the UK’s Conservatives have given up on climate

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Europe’s answer to the green backlash

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This bank is turning Africa into a climate investment opportunity

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The slow and painful recovery of the wind industry

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How ‘energy islands’ can supercharge offshore wind

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How to cut industrial emissions and dodge the valley of death

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The climate watchdog holding the UK government to account

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A legally binding treaty to fight the plastic problem

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Listen Now: The Big Take

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Making renewables a profitable bet… everywhere

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Climate change can't overcome capitalism, and that's OK

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John Kerry, the Forrest Gump of climate, bows out

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Introducing: The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly

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What Donald Trump’s return means for US climate ambition

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Best of: How climate reached the world's elite in Davos

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Our favorite climate numbers #3

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Check out: Drilled

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Check out: The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast

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Introducing: Bloomberg News Now

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Is COP28 the beginning of the end for the fossil fuel era?

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'Hey, nice sea wall': Finding trillions for adaptation

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Al Gore plans to break the petrostate stranglehold on climate progress

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How to triple renewables by 2030

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Outrage and optimism in oil country

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Best of: We need trillions to fix the climate. Finally there’s a serious plan.

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Can an oil exec successfully lead COP28?

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How China left the world far behind in the battery race

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Carbon removal’s magic number

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Europe’s top industrialist takes on green batteries

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Introducing: Elon, Inc.

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Big promise, little success: The state of carbon capture

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The loudest champion of the climate vulnerable

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Best of: How the ‘rich man’s energy club’ became a climate champion

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The EV revolution isn’t just on four wheels

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Peak oil is here. Well, maybe.

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Can climate capitalism work?

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It's done. The future is electric cars.

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How to keep fossil fuels in the ground, from the boardroom

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Our favorite climate numbers #2

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The godfather of solar predicts its future

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Perfume? Yes. Potatoes? No. Vertical farming tries to grow up

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How the world’s biggest green bank is electrifying Australia

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Your carbon footprint should bring you joy

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Best of: How to build a battery that replaces a coal plant

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Methane leaks are the low-hanging fruit of the climate crisis

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Why Hollywood A-listers are rushing to star in climate shows

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Inside the industry that made climate denial work

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A sci-fi writer’s guide to a low-carbon future

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Best of: The world’s food system needs a radical rethink

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How solar’s explosive growth is starting to make electricity free

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Our favorite climate numbers

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How Canada figured out a carbon tax and gave the money back

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The Chinese activist who mapped the country's pollution problem

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Three US Governors, Republican and Democrat, pitch green spending

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World leaders met in Paris to unlock trillions in climate finance. What did they achieve?

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Meet the man with $400 billion to supercharge climate tech

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We need trillions to fix the climate. Finally there’s a serious plan.

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How wildfire smoke and air pollution affect your health

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How to stop your retirement money funding climate change

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The biggest opportunity in the history of the world

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Does it matter if the world breaches 1.5C for a single year?

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Redesigning cities for a future of extreme heat

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Biden’s climate bill is changing climate tech, and our daily lives

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How the Bezos Earth Fund spends its billions

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High hopes for biodiversity, but who will pay?

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Best of: Inside the stealth startup making zero-emission steel

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The climate case for flying cars

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A kingdom built on oil now controls the world’s climate progress

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How to build a battery that replaces a coal plant

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How the ‘rich man’s energy club’ became a climate champion

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Why the new IPCC report is so important

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What the Silicon Valley Bank collapse means for climate tech

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What it takes to become a climate tech CEO, with Katie Rae

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Building a future where humanity will thrive, with Achim Steiner

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How Europe ditched Russian fossil fuels with spectacular speed

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The new climate race between EU and US, with Jennifer Morgan

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Everybody wants a better battery, Christine Ho is printing one

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Can Sweden’s 27-year-old climate minister match up to the far right? with Romina Pourmokhtari

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High-octane capitalism meets climate change, with Chamath Palihapitiya

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How a fossil-fuel company became a wind giant, with Mads Nipper

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How climate reached the world's elite in Davos, with Gail Whiteman

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How to quit your job for the climate

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Should the climate movement embrace property destruction? with Andreas Malm

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Are democracies up to the climate challenge? with Daniel Fiorino

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How did a good idea go so wrong? Carbon offsets with Mark Trexler

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The world’s food system needs a radical rethink, with George Monbiot

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Why it’s so hard to invest in clean energy in Africa

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The lengths Lewis Pugh goes to save the oceans

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How climate activists adapted to a repressive regime at COP27

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Can climate change be solved without COP? with Patricia Espinosa

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Biden Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi thinks Democrats have green momentum

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The Bahamas' Prime Minister Philip Davis wants money to protect his oceans

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At COP27, a breakthrough on loss and damage? with Saleemul Huq

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Will the US finally become a climate leader? with Leah Stokes

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Africa's climate reparations require data that doesn't exist

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Oil boss Vicki Hollub is selling 'net-zero oil'. Do you buy it?

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Justin Trudeau on his struggle to reduce Canada's emissions

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Australia’s new climate politics will reshape its entire economy with Adam Bandt & David Pocock

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Inside the stealth startup making zero-emission steel

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A big climate bill for a new era of climate tech with Bill Gates

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Why venture capital is crucial to the climate fight with Gabriel Kra

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How to crisis-proof climate action with Bryony Worthington

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