What World Will They Inherit? Live from Bath Abbey
Before she was Christiana Figueres, architect of the Paris agreement, who was she? What did believe in 2015 that she no longer believes?In June, an event about the next generation of climate leaders w...
15 Okt 42min
How Can a Country Survive Losing Its Land?
A ship rams a canoe. The canoe starts to sink. The ship's crew lean over the rail and offer a loan to repair it.That is how Surangel Whipps Jr., President of Palau, describes climate finance in the Pa...
8 Okt 40min
The Easy Wins Are Gone. What's Actually Next for Net Zero?
Net Zero was once a radical idea. Now it’s both an accepted global target, and an increasingly toxic political faultline.This week, Tom is back from the UN General Assembly and New York Climate week, ...
1 Okt 40min
Who Runs the World?: Inside the UN’s Secret Leadership Race
The news cameras may be following rising tensions between President Trump and President Pezeshkian of Iran, but deep in the bowels of the United Nations, fifteen countries are about to choose, in priv...
24 Sep 58min
Inside the New Security Thinking: The Weaponisation of Disaster?
This summer, extreme heat killed tens of thousands of people across Europe. The number killed by terrorism was, as our guest puts it, very very small. So why are the institutions built to keep people ...
17 Sep 44min
Blocker or Blueprint? India on the World Stage
At COP26 in Glasgow, India famously asked to change one word in the final text. ‘Phase out’ became ‘phase down’. The COP President fought back tears, as country after country branded this a moment of ...
10 Sep 40min
What’s India Building?: Tales from the Biggest Transition on Earth
"This will never work in India."That's what Indian truck manufacturers said about electric freight. Now they build the trucks.Something is going on here at a speed the rest of the world has not yet no...
3 Sep 32min
India: Life Inside Delhi's 'Airpocalypse'
In Delhi, lung cancer is no longer a smoker’s disease. It’s a breather’s disease.But the most polluted capital on earth sits in a country running five years ahead of its Paris clean power target. In t...
27 Aug 38min
