Beyond the Bad News: Evidence for Climate Optimism
From stalled UN plastics treaty talks, to the hottest summer on record across much of the northern hemisphere - it’s been a bleak few weeks for climate news. So this week, against a backdrop of worsen...
11 Sep 202544min
Rising Tides: How indigenous communities are facing the climate crisis
What does it mean to live on the front lines of climate change - where rising seas, collapsing ecosystems and the legacies of colonialism collide?This week, Christiana Figueres and Paul Dickinson are ...
4 Sep 202557min
Listening to the Living World: Can AI help us hear the planet?
What if we could not only listen to the rest of nature, but actually understand it?From decoding whale songs to giving nature a legal voice, the possibilities are tantalising - and they may not be as ...
28 Aug 202558min
Introducing: Inside COP - the Official COP30 Podcast from Outrage + Optimism
Live from Belém… it’s Outrage + Optimism! (Or it will be.)This year’s COP is one of the most significant in years, and we’ll be there with you every step of the way - charting the buildup, analysing e...
27 Aug 20254min
You Are What You Eat: Soil, Seeds and Social Justice
What’s really in the food on our plates? The journey to our supermarket shelves is one of broken economics, environmental destruction, and social injustice.But what if agriculture could look completel...
21 Aug 202545min
Too Hot to Handle?: Facing a Future Beyond 1.5°C
As global temperatures continue to skyrocket, the once unthinkable is now within view: overshooting 1.5°C of warming. This limit, set out in the Paris Agreement, has defined a decade of climate action...
14 Aug 202554min
Mistakes, Mistruths and Misinformation: Climate's biggest myths debunked
Isn’t climate change just part of a natural cycle? Weren’t CO2 levels much higher in the past? And, even if we should be worried, can one person really make a difference?Lies travel faster than facts....
7 Aug 202552min
Trump’s War on Climate - and Maggie Baird on food justice and plant-based touring with Billie Eilish
As record heat scorches the US, Trump’s government is making things dramatically worse. We break down the devastating implications of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the reversal of the Environmental Prot...
31 Jul 202556min
