Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change23 Huhti 2025

Trump vs The Transition, The Pope’s Climate Legacy & The High Price of UK Electricity — Ep205

In 100 short days, the world has transformed. Since the reelection of President Donald Trump, US federal climate policy has largely been abandoned, with the government seeking to reopen coal-fired power plants and lower environmental standards.

An escalating trade war and global tariffs has sent the rest of the world reeling and threatened the global financial system with collapse. China has come under particular fire, but the US has also targeted its closest allies and neighbours — Canada, Mexico and the EU — with tariffs.

Any sense of certainty has been thrown out of the window as a more inward looking US seeks to reshape the global order. So what does all this mean for the energy transition, and plans to reach net-zero? Michael Liebreich and Baroness Bryony Worthington join forces for the opening episode of Season 15 of Cleaning Up to discuss.

Leadership Circle: Cleaning Up is supported by the Leadership Circle: Actis, Alcazar Energy, Davidson Kempner, EcoPragma Capital, EDP of Portugal, Eurelectric, the Gilardini Foundation, KKR, National Grid, Octopus Energy, Quadrature Climate Foundation, SDCL and Wärtsilä. For more information on the Leadership Circle, please visit https://www.cleaningup.live.

Discover more:

Cleaning Up’s Sierra Leone Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-5QjSfy2SM
Cleaning Up’s interview with Mark Carney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtA5ufMzKAU
Ember’s Global Electricity Review: https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-review-2025/
Michael’s AI Update on Deepseek: https://mliebreich.substack.com/p/ai-data-centre-power-and-glory-an
Michael’s retreat inside an old millhouse: https://lemoulindabondance.com/

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It's climate, Jim, but not as we know it - Ep36: Prof. Jim Skea

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Investing in Climate Activism - Ep35: Kate Hampton

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Electrifying Almost Everything for Net-Zero - Ep34: Kristian Ruby

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Happy International Women’s Day!

Today is International Women’s Day. We want to take the time to highlight some of the incredible women who are leading the world’s pivot to net-zero. From politics to finance and diplomacy, these wome...

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Leading the way from Westminster to Paris - Ep33: Rt Hon Amber Rudd

Further reading:Climate change: COP26 head must be made full-time role to tackle global emergency, Amber Rudd says (December, 2020)https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-cop26-head-must-be-made-ful...

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Building the Billion-Customer Energy Company - Ep32: Greg Jackson

LinksOctopus Energyhttps://octopus.energy/Energy needed a digital revolution – and we are it (January 2021)https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/02/energy-needed-a-digital-revolution-and-we-ar...

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Climate Change? We'll be in Floods - Ep31: Emma Howard Boyd

Further reading:Government biohttps://www.gov.uk/government/people/emma-howard-boydEnvironment Agency websitehttps://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agencyEncouraging locally-led clima...

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