Building a future where humanity will thrive, with Achim Steiner
Since the Human Development Index was established in 1990, it has trended gradually upward, as people’s health, wealth and opportunities have improved. But in 2019, it went into a decline then made wo...
2 Mar 202341min
How Europe ditched Russian fossil fuels with spectacular speed
When Russia attacked Ukraine last year, it expected to win in a three-day blitz. Instead, it’s become a protracted war with impacts felt far and wide — disrupting food systems, supply chains, geopolit...
23 Feb 202331min
The new climate race between EU and US, with Jennifer Morgan
As Germany’s climate envoy, Jennifer Morgan stands alongside John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua of China as one of the world’s top climate negotiators. But she is no typical bureaucrat. Jennifer considers her...
16 Feb 202326min
Everybody wants a better battery, Christine Ho is printing one
This summer, Bloomberg Green reporter Akshat Rathi visited Imprint Energy, a Silicon Valley startup that prints batteries. Using the same tools as screenprinters, Imprint Energy prints thousands of ba...
9 Feb 202324min
Can Sweden’s 27-year-old climate minister match up to the far right? with Romina Pourmokhtari
Sweden is known for its climate ambition, and was the first country to set a goal to reach net zero by 2045. Yet a new government aligned with the far-right Sweden Democrats has thrown that commitment...
2 Feb 202334min
High-octane capitalism meets climate change, with Chamath Palihapitiya
In 2020, Silicon Valley investor Chamath Palihapitiya said he wanted to create a holding company for climate tech and asked for people to submit their frameworks for making it happen. Whoever was chos...
26 Jan 202339min
How a fossil-fuel company became a wind giant, with Mads Nipper
The wind industry is exploding, growing from just 2% of global electricity supply to 7% in a decade. But to achieve net zero by 2050, we're going to need a lot more wind turbines, both on land and out...
19 Jan 202329min
How climate reached the world's elite in Davos, with Gail Whiteman
This January, Davos will once again host the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting and bring together the world's business and political elite. In recent years, climate change has climbed ever further...
12 Jan 202333min
