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121 | Michael Greene: Carbon Cowboy or Lone Ranger Part 2 – The $200 Million Land Heist in the Amazon

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Bionic Planet, we finally catch up with Michael Greene — the carbon developer branded a "land grabber of epic proportions" in The...

120 | Indonesia is Still Moving its Capitol, and Nobody Cares?

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Bionic Planet, we delve into the pressing issue of climate change and its profound impact on coastal ecosystems, particularly focu...

119 | Blue Carbon Pioneer James Kairo on How Mangroves Combat Climate Change: First of Three Parts

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Like what you hear? Support us at patreon.com/bionicplanet. Today's guest, Blue Carbon Pioneer James Kairo, brings us into the fascinating world of m...

118 | Kenyan Herders Say Judgement Against Them Based on Forged Signatures / Continuation of Episode 117

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Bionic Planet, we continue our dive into the complex and often contentious world of community conservancies in northern Kenya, foc...

117 | Kenyan Pastoralists Cry Foul on Western NGOs, Media. First of two parts

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this gripping two-hour episode, we pull back the curtain on misinformation campaigns targeting carbon projects in Kenya's Northern Rangelands. Thro...

116 | James Mwangi and Kenya's Great Carbon Valley

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our podcast, we dive deep into the transformative potential of Africa in the global shift towards a sustainable future, featuring ...

115 | Unpacking Donald Trump's Very Weird Environmental Orders

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Bionic Planet, Season 10, Episode 115, we dive into the significant environmental implications of the executive orders signed by P...

114 | Michael Greene: Carbon Cowboy or Lone Ranger? Part 1

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Bionic Planet, I delve into the complex and often controversial world of conservation in the Amazon, featuring Michael Greene, a f...

113 | The Future of Environmental Finance: Strategies for Biodiversity and Climate Solutions, with David Hill and George Kelly

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of Bionic Planet is a rebroadcast of David Hill's podcast, "How to Avoid Moving to Mars." In it, Professor David Hill, CBE, speaks with ...

112 | Fantasy Football and Dynamic Baselines: New Tools for Impact Assessment

12 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 112 of Bionic Planet, titled "Fantasy Football and Dynamic Baselines: New Tools for Impact Assessment," we unpack the often misunderstood ...

111 | The False Dichotomy Between Reductions and Removals (Rerun)

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Support Bionic Planet: https://www.patreon.com/bionicplanet  Recent updates from the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) have pushed an old debat...

110| Ecological Economics, Systems Thinking, and the Limits to Growth

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Support Bionic Planet: https://www.patreon.com/bionicplanet  Guests: Jim Pittman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamespittman/) Matt Orsagh (https://ww...

109 | How Brazil's Quilombola Communities are Planting the Seeds of Sustainability for Small Farms Around the World, with Vasco van Roosmalen of ReSeed

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Support Bionic Planet: https://www.patreon.com/bionicplanet  In episode 109 of Bionic Planet, we learn how the Quilombola people of Brazil are blend...

108 | The Washington Post's Head Scratcher of a Carbon Story

03 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Photo by Karol Stefański on Unsplash Support me at patreon.com/bionicplanet Related Links to Follow In episode 108 of Bionic Planet, I delve into ...

107 | Francis Bacon and the Prehistory of Climate Finance. Second in an intermittent series on the Untold Story of the Voluntary Carbon Market

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Support Bionic Planet: https://www.patreon.com/bionicplanet Books referenced in this episode: "The Discovery of Global Warming" by Spencer Weart (Hyp...

106 | Steve Discusses the "Tribes of the Climate Realm" on the Smarter Markets Podcast

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episoed of Bionic Planet is technically an episode of Andrew Greely's podcast, Smarter Markets, where I appeared as a guest to discuss my new ver...

105 | The Role of Carbon Credits in Conservation: A Case Study from Guatemala

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Bionic Planet, we delve into the inspiring journey of Marco Cerezo, the director of Fundaeco, a conservation NGO based in Guatemal...

104 | Transition Finance: How Carbon Markets REALLY Work, with David Antonioli

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 104 of Bionic Planet, I delve into the intricacies of carbon finance with my guest, David Antonioli. We explore the concept of transformat...

103 | Jen Jenkins on Purists, Pragmatists, and Science-Based Targets

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 103 of Bionic Planet, titled "Purists, Pragmatists, and the Science-Based Targets Initiative," we delve into the complex world of emission...

102 | Understanding Science and Communicating Uncertainty in Climate Solutions, with Gil Pontius (AKA, Dr Stardust)

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jr., a geography professor at Clark University specializing in geographic ...

101 | Interface, Inc May Have Outgrown Offsets, but Most Have Not

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/bionicplanet Two weeks ago, climate pioneer Interface Inc announced they would become carbon-negative acros...

100 | The Untold Story of the Voluntary Carbon Market

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/bionicplanet In Episode 100 of Bionic Planet, part of the Tribes of the Climate Realm vertical, we delve i...

99 | Mombasa's Big Ship: Reviving Urban Mangroves by Raising Communities

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Support Bionic Planet at patreon.com/bionicplanet In Episode 99 of Bionic Planet, recorded in Mombasa, Kenya, the focus is on the efforts to revive t...

098 | The Case of the Tangled Titles: Unraveling the Legal Complexities of Land Ownership in the Amazon

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're going to try and help you understand one of the most vexing components of the climate challenge — namely, the overlapping, interlinking,...

97 | The Mosaic, the Minefield, and a Manifesto

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Photo courtesey of  HH58 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70303656  This episode of Bionic Planet is entitl...

096: Encore Presentation: Tim Mohin on Overcoming Information Asymmetry in the ESG Movement

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Mohin wrote "Changing Business from the Inside Out: A Tree-Hugger's Guide to Working in Corporations" back in 2012, after three decades in sustain...

95 | "Co" Benefits Vs "Core Benefits:" Geoff Mwangi And His Theory Of Change

10 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

94 | Zimbabwe's Cannabis Queen, Zorodzai Maroveke, AKA "Dr Zoey"

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Zorodzai Maroveke -- AKA "Dr. Zoey" -- heads the Zimbabwe Industrial Hemp Trust, which is promoting the uptake of industrial hemp as a climate sma...

93 | Zimbabwe's Green Cheetahs, with Chiyedza Heri of the Ubuntu Alliance

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Zimbabwean entrepreneur Chiyedza Heri runs the Ubuntu Alliance, a company that's helping farmers leverage carbon finance to shift to more sustainable ...

92 | COP 28 Article 6: Expectations for Final Day

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With just one full day of negotiations remaining, Pedro Venzon and Andrea Bonzanni of the International Emissions Trading Association summarize the re...

91 | Article 6 Update from Dubai with Kelley Hamrick Malvar of The Nature Conservancy

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Article 6 negotiations, which focus on international carbon markets, remain stalled in Dubai. Kelley Hamrick Malvar of The Nature Conservancy offers a...

90| George Thumbi: Man of a Million Trees (5th Installment, "Carbon in Kenya")

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kenyan agronomist George Thumbi is helping farmers in the region between Tsavo East and Tsavo West improve their yields and their soil by shifting to ...

89 | How Agroforestry is Reshaping the Kenyan Countryside

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This piece, adapted from a piece that first ran in 2016, serves as the fourth installment in our continuing series on carbon finance in Kenya. Today, ...

88 | The Gospel of REDD+ According to Bees

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In part three of our continuing series from Kenya, we hear how the Chyulu Hills REDD+ Project helped people switch from burning trees for charcoal to ...

087 | How Ending Deforestation Revived a Major River, Slowed Climate Change, and Saved Lives

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Evans Maneno is Makueni County Ecosystem Conservator for the Kenya Forestry Service. He walks us through a tree nursery in the Chyulu Hills and explai...

86 | The Race to Save the Cloud Forests of Kenya's Chyulu Hills

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A decade ago,  the cloud forests of Kenya's Chyulu Hills were on the brink of collapse, threatening water supplies for the Tsavo and Amboseli Plains ...

085 | Can Ghana Leverage REDD+ to Save its Cocoa Farmers? A conversation with Roselyn Fosuah Adjei of Ghana's Forestry Commission

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ghana's cocoa economy is second only to Côte d'Ivoire's, but climate change threatens to decimate it. Today's guest, Roselyn Fosuah Adjei of the Ghan...

084 | Treeless Neighborhoods and Poverty: the Deadly Link and How to Address it

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A 2021 study of trees in America showed that poor neighborhoods had far fewer trees than wealthier ones, and that translates into higher temperatures,...

083 | What to Make of COP27, with Jos Cozijnsen of Climate Neutral Group

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jos Cozijnsen has been working the climate puzzle for decades -- first by helping to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol and then by helping NGOs like the En...

082 | Every Tree on the Planet Mapped, with Sassan Saatchi of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Under the Paris Climate Agreement, countries must document all of their greenhouse gas emissions and sinks, and that means measuring changes in tree c...

081 | How to Build a Methodology, with Max DuBuisson of Indigo Ag

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Just over four years ago, Max DuBuisson took on one of the most difficult challenges you can imagine: namely, spearheading the creation of a new carbo...

80 | Forty Years of Sustainability Finance: Making ESG Work

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Mohin wrote "Changing Business from the Inside Out: A Tree-Hugger's Guide to Working in Corporations" back in 2012, after three decades in sustain...

79 | Clean Water and the Courts: a Pre-History of Sackett vs EPA

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On October 2, 2022, the US Supreme court heard a case that could impact the quality of water across the United States. Sackett v EPA dates back to 200...

78 | Helping Farmers Save Forests in Guatemala's Caribbean Coast

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Marco Cerezo of Guatemalan NGO FUNDAECO explains how he's using carbon finance to help Guatemalan farmers demarcate their land and save surrounding fo...

77 | Where Does Healthy Critique End and Cynical Denial Begin?

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The science-denial movement delayed action on climate change for decades, and now the tropes they used are creeping into coverage of emerging climate ...

76 | Six Lessons from 45 Years of Natural Climate Solutions

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When popular media get natural climate solutions wrong, it's usually because they're struggling to understand complex mechanisms that have evolved ove...

75 l Coverage of Climate Solutions Suffer the Same Fate as Coverage of Climate Science?

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

News outlets are finally allocating resources to coverage of climate solutions, and most reporters are trying to get these complex issues right. Some,...

074 |Why the Global South Needs Voluntary Carbon Markets

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We kick off Season Seven with a look at the  Voluntary Carbon Market Global Dialogue and the six keys to making sure voluntary carbon markets work fo...

073 | Why the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests may be More than Blah Blah, with Frances Seymour

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A conversation with WRI Senior Fellow Frances Seymour, who says there's plenty of reason to believe the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and La...

072 | Investing in Pure Climate Stocks, with Matthias Krey

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

From year-end climate talks in Glasgow: Want to put your money where your mouth is by investing in companies that move us closer to a net-zero economy...

071 | The Down and Dirty, Nitty Gritty of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, Part 1

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On the ground at year-end climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, Maria Carvalho and Frédéric Gagnon-Lebrun of South Pole Climate Solutions dissect the ...

Climate Quickie 1: Leveraging Restoration for Net Zero Tourism Worldwide

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), which is the United Nations specialized agency charged with promoting sustainable tourism, today unveiled t...

Climate Quickie 1: Leveraging Restoration for Net Zero Tourism Worldwide

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), which is the United Nations specialized agency charged with promoting sustainable tourism, today unveiled t...

069 | The False Dichotomy of Reductions vs Removals, with Eli Mitchell-Larson

16 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We need to slash greenhouse-gas emissions while supporting activities that remove greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere, and carbon markets can both a...

068 | Carbon Exchanges and Green Supply Chains: The Future of Natural Climate Solutions

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Biologists, economists, and environmental activists often seem like members of warring tribes, but Gabriel Eickhoff, CEO of Lestari Capital, says they...

068 | Carbon Exchanges and Green Supply Chains: The Future of Natural Climate Solutions

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Biologists, economists, and environmental activists often seem like members of warring tribes, but Gabriel Eickhoff, CEO of Lestari Capital, says they...

068 | Carbon Exchanges and Green Supply Chains: The Future of Natural Climate Solutions

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Biologists, economists, and environmental activists often seem like members of warring tribes, but Gabriel Eickhoff, CEO of Lestari Capital, says they...

067 | Forests and the Billion-Dollar LEAF: New Hope for World Forests

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Eron Bloomgarden, Emergent Capital Launched on Earth Day, the LEAF (Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance) Coalition aims to double...

066| German Floods and the Futility of Adaptation Without Mitigation

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We cannot adapt our way out of the climate mess, as Allie Goldstein of Conservation International and Mark Trexler of the Climate Web make clear. We d...

066| German Floods and the Mantra of Mitigate or Die

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We cannot adapt our way out of the climate mess, as Alliee Goldstein of Conservation International and Mark Trexler of the Climate Web make clear. We ...

065 | Carbon Negative Carpets and Interface's Climate Neutral Journey

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Carpetmaker Interface has won accolades for its carbon-negative carpet, the manufacture of which pulls more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it...

064 | Race to Zero: Meet the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What do Bill Gates, Mark Carney, Annette Nazareth, and Agustin Silvani have in common? They all believe that well-designed voluntary carbon markets ca...

063 | COVID-19 and the 2020 Emissions Chasm Report

01 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The UN's Emissions Gap Report showed that the current Paris Agreement Climate Plans (NDCs )will leave us nowhere near where we need to be to avert a c...

062 | At What Temperature Do Forests Stop Absorbing Carbon?

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today I speak with environmental scientist Jason Funk, who runs the Land Use and Climate Knowledge Initiative (LUCKI) about the important findings of ...

061 | Seaweed, Cities, and Mangroves: The Blue Carbon Story

01 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we speak with oceanographer and sedimentologist Steve Crooks, one of the world's leading authorities on coastal ecosystems and climat...

060 | What The Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us About Meeting the Climate Challenge (Encore Presentation)

23 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, which originally aired in October, 2018, we speak with the Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley, who says climate change and civil rights are i...

59 | Why The Sustainable Development Goals Matter (Encore Presentation)

31 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If there's one thing COVID-19 reminds us, it's that global institutions matter. For that reason, I'm replaying this 2016 episode looking at the Sustai...

Forests, Fires, and Jurisdictional Offsets: A Conversation with Naomi Swickard of Verra

01 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Global greenhouse-gas emissions will drop 5.5 percent this year because of COVID-19, but they must drop 7.6 percent every year to meet the Paris Agree...

057 | COVID-19 and the Value of Resilience over Efficiency

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When US President Donald Trump disbanded his country's pandemic response team, he did so because "I don't like having thousands of people around when ...

056 | How Costa Rica Grew Both its Forests and its Economy

24 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Costa Rica says it will have zero net greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050, and its electrical grid already runs on 99 percent renewable energy. Today's g...

055 | The Citizens Climate Lobby Wants to Spread the Carbon Wealth

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today's guest, Daniel Palken, volunteers with a group called the Citizens Climate Lobby, or "CCL", which aims to slash US greenhouse-gas emissions by ...

054 | Give Us Ecotopia or Give Us Death

01 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Developing countries are the most vulnerable to – and least responsible for – climate change, but new research shows that some of them can dramat...

53: A Marshall Plan for Forests, with Charlotte Streck of Climate Focus

02 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There's a lot of money sloshing around forests, and most of it goes into agricultural subsidies and investments that destroy forests, while only a tri...

52: Natural Climate Solutions Explained (ENCORE PRESENTATION)

01 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On the eve of year-end climate talks in Madrid, I revisit my 2017 conversation with Bronson Griscom, Director of Forest Carbon Science for the Nature ...

051 | Forests in the Paris Agreement, Part 3: a Conversation with Annie Petsonk of EDF

16 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The third episode of our three-part look at the birth of REDD+, we speak with Annie Petsonk of the Environmental Defense Fund. Related Articles:   "S...

050| Forests in the Paris Climate Agreement, Part 2: Kevin Conrad

22 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this second part of our three-part series on the history of forests in the Paris Climate Agreement, we hear how REDD+ got its name and made its way...

049 | Forests in the Paris Climate Agreement, Part 1: The Birth of Forest Carbon

15 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

2019 is shaping up to be a pivotal summer in a pivotal year in the critical race to meet the climate challenge, with major media finally discovering t...

048: Understanding the IPCC's New Compendium of Science on Climate, Forests, and Farms

10 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We eat to live, but the food we're eating is killing us – not just because of what it does to our bodies, but because of what it does to our climate...

047 | An Accountability Framework For Deforestation

18 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Environmental NGOs have long pressured companies to reduce their impact on forests, and companies have long complained that every NGO seems to come wi...

46| Restoration Economy, Part Two: The Billion-Dollar Foot

30 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's an article of faith among some on the left that markets and capitalism are the roots of all evil, while some on the right see pure, free markets ...

045 | Nature, Paid on Delivery; with Guest Tim Male

01 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Environmental scientist Tim Male has worked the conservation puzzle from both the NGO and governmental sector -- first with NGOs like Environmental De...

044 | Green New Deal Architect Rhiana Gunn-Wright

18 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We've been fairly US-centric lately, but only because so much is finally happening there. In today's episode, we speak with Rhiana Gunn-Wright of New ...

043 | Bees Trees and Burning Bluffs

06 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're losing pollinators at an alarming rate, which scientists attribute at least in part to the loss of native plants, which evolved alongside hundre...

042 | The Stealth Plan to Roll Back US Water Protection (First of Two Parts)

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Wetlands cover 274 million acres of the United States, and they ultimately provide more than half the country's drinking water, which is one reason t...

041: ENCORE PRESENTATION: Why the Sustainable Development Goals Really Are a Very Big Bid Deal

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We hear a lot about the Sustainable Development Goals, or "SDGs" these days, with major pension funds like Calvert aligning their portfolios with them...

40 | Former Climate Boss Yvo de Boer

23 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Yvo de Boer served as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from August, 2006 to July, 2010; and i...

39 | How World's Farmers are Engaging the Global Climate Apparatus

24 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Agriculture emits roughly 20 percent of all greenhouse gasses, but sustainable management of forests, farms, and fields can turn the world's farms int...

38 | Natural Climate Solutions at Katowice Climate Talks

08 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The first week of year-end climate talks have wrapped up in Katowice, Poland, where natural climate solutions are finally getting the attention they d...

037 Oil Palm, The Prodigal Plant, Is Coming Home To Africa. What Does That Mean For Forests?

02 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Samuel Avaala shakes his head as he dips his fork into a bowl of red-red, a traditional Ghanaian stew that gets its color – and name – in part fr...

036| Can These Indigenous People Sustainably Log And Still Save Their Forest?

28 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ilson López is the President of Belgium. Not the European country, but the indigenous village in the district of Tahuamanu, in the Peruvian state of ...

035 | What The Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us About Fixing The Climate

31 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

    In this episode, we speak with the Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley, who says climate change and civil rights are inexorably intertwined, and not just...

035 | What The Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us About Fixing The Climate

31 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

    In this episode, we speak with the Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley, who says climate change and civil rights are inexorably intertwined, and not just...

034 | Climate Shock Revisited: the Economics of Carbon Pricing

10 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When countries around the world ratified the Paris Climate Agreement in 2016, they pledged to prevent average global temperatures from rising to a lev...

032 | Indigenous Leader Hindou Ibrahim on Indigenous People and Global Commodity Companies

11 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hindou Ibrahim grew up in rural Chad, a member of the nomadic Mbororo people. Today, she co-chairs the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Clima...

032 | How the Trump Administration Is Undermining the Clean Water Act, Part One

09 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This is the fifth in a five-part series. You can find the first installment here. US Environmental Protection Agency boss Scott Pruitt is gone – ...

031 How Nature Can Get Us 37 Percent Of The Way To The Paris Climate Target

01 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today I speak with Bronson Griscom, Director of Forest Carbon Science for the Nature Conservancy.   Last year, he headed up a team of three dozen ...

030 A Green Deal for the Netherlands

30 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jos Cozijnsen shakes his tangled black mane and adjusts his leathery blue suit – fashioned, it turns out, from overalls discarded by German railroad...

029 | A Tale of Two Companies

23 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hundreds of consumer-facing companies have pledged to purge deforestation from their supply chains -- often by only buying products that are certified...

028: 2017 Year In Review

31 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I've produced 19 episodes of Bionic Planet since the election of Donald Trump, mostly focused on the work of people trying to fix the climate mess -- ...

027 | Understanding the World Bank's BioCarbon Fund and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility

01 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

More and more countries across the developing world are launching large-scale, climate-smart initiatives to transform the way local communities derive...