Electrification – not decarbonization – is the climate story of 2026
Decarbonizing energy is just one part of the climate story. The other half is electrifying as much as possible. That is why electrification, not decarbonization, is likely going to be the most importa...
22 Jan 40min
Did we get climate finance all wrong?
For the last decade, since the Paris Agreement was signed, governments have been trying to nudge big financial players to move more money into climate solutions. The idea was to drive action through d...
15 Jan 42min
America the bully becomes the supreme petrostate
President Donald Trump wants US companies to rebuild Venezuela's oil fields after the capture of Nicolas Maduro. This week on Zero, US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse joins Akshat Rathi to discuss why the ...
8 Jan 39min
Abundance or adequacy? The search for better climate futures: Imagine series
Kim Stanley Robinson’s life project has been imagining utopias. He’s a science-fiction writer best known in climate circles for writing Ministry For The Future, which depicts a future in which the wor...
2 Jan 39min
Update: Have China's emissions finally peaked?
This episode was originally recorded in July 2025, and updated in December 2025. Happy Holidays from the Zero team. When exactly China’s emissions peak will make a big difference to the fate of the p...
24 Des 202536min
How cash-strapped Argentina became a bright spot for renewables
Despite endless financial difficulties, Argentina has seen a remarkable increase in clean energy over the past decade. It has gone from practically zero to almost 18% of its electricity sourced from r...
18 Des 202534min
Is this the end of Canada's climate ambitions?
When Canada elected Mark Carney as prime minister, there was hope that the country would pursue climate policies. That hope was crushed after Carney signed a deal with the oil-producing province of Al...
5 Des 202541min
How China’s engineering mindset won the clean-tech race
In his new book Breakneck, tech analyst Dan Wang argues China’s engineering mindset has given it an edge in all sorts of domains, including climate technologies, while America’s lawyerly mindset is ho...
4 Des 202526min
