Ukraine: The risk of a nuclear site attack
One and a half months have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine from the South, the East and Belarus. This is the second episode in our special series on the environmental impacts of the war. On this e...
6 Apr 202224min
Ukraine: the environmental impacts of the war
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has changed everything. At the time of writing, there have been more than 900 Ukrainian civilians and 1300 soldiers killed since the start of the invasion on 24 Fe...
23 Mar 202237min
Outsourcing emissions: China's oil and gas ventures in Central Asia
In this episode the Eurasian Climate Brief team are looking into the impact of China’s oil and gas ventures in Central Asia. “What?” I hear you ask? “I thought China was going green and aiming to re...
24 Feb 202235min
Crypto's carbon costs: Eurasia feels the heat
On 25 January, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan suffered from a mysterious series of electricity power outages, plunging the region into chaos. For several hours, skiers lay perched on lifts and ...
9 Feb 202236min
Russia's Foreign Agents' Law: Outlawed but not silenced
The Eurasian Climate Brief is a new podcast dedicated to climate news in the region stretching from Eastern Europe and Russia down to the Caucasus and Central Asia. This episode is dedicated to the c...
26 Jan 202232min
Coal of contention: Europe's fight over the Turów mine
It is one of the fiercest environmental disputes on European soil in decades: Warsaw and the Prague have spent the last year sparring over the future of a lignite coal mine located in Turów, southwest...
19 Jan 202229min
2021 wrap-up & the story behind the Eurasian Climate Brief
In this special New Year episode, we take you behind the scenes of the production of the Eurasian Climate Brief and brief you on the biggest climate stories of the year for our region. Natalie Sauer u...
6 Jan 202236min
Not in my backyard: The battle over Rio Tinto's Serbian lithium mine
Rio Tinto, the world's second biggest mining company, has spent the last years coveting a lithium mining project in Serbia. Exploratory drills have already produced leaks, soiling crops and undergroun...
15 Des 202128min
