World Resources Institute Podcasts Plus

Restoring India's Landscapes

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Forests and farmland are part of the lives of more than 700 million people in India, but they need to be kept healthy if those people are to flourish....

Nature-Based Solutions for Enhancing Climate Resilience: Data Drives Impact

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Measuring the impact of nature-based solutions (NBS) interventions takes consistent ground-level data alongside independent, verifiable, satellite-bas...

ACT2025: what do climate-vulnerable countries want from COP29?

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What do the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries need global leaders to achieve at this year’s COP29 UN climate summit? Experts from the Alli...

Preparing the World for Proactive Energy Planning: WRI Recaps the Clean Energy Ministerial

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Paving the way to COP29 next month and COP30 in 2025, Brazil hosted an impactful Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) at the beginning of October. WRI exper...

Latin America Leads the Clean Energy Transition: WRI Previews the Clean Energy Ministerial

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) is the annual COP of energy where the major drivers of responses to climate change and clean energy solutions can h...

Turning Up Clean Energy in Asia: Slashing Scope 3 Emissions in China

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

China’s impact on global supply chains is unparalleled, so decarbonizing the businesses that set up shop in that country — from fashion sector lea...

Turning Up Clean Energy in Asia: Decarbonizing Healthcare in India

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Delivering healthcare is a 24/7 job. But what happens when the electricity supply – necessary for so many critical procedures and equipment, medicat...

Turning Up Clean Energy in Asia: A Brief History of Clean Energy in Asia

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All eyes are on Asia as it attempts to complete a clean energy transition away from fossil fuels. National governments will have to work with the priv...

Impact of the 2024 Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF)

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Looking back on the Asian Development Bank’s Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF), WRI experts, Marlon Apanada and Jennie Chen explain the important role ...

WRI at ACEF - Behind The Scenes #2

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As ACEF 2024 wraps up, WRI brings you a closer look at the innovative aspects of agrivoltaics that China is tapping into to reach its goal of tripling...

WRI at ACEF 2024 - Behind The Scenes

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After the first couple of days at ACEF 2024, WRI experts talk about how their work ties into the forum’s overall goals – specifically about how In...

Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2024 Preview

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ahead of the Asia Clean Energy Forum, or ACEF for short, WRI examines the purpose of the premier conference of clean energy stakeholders on the contin...

Voices on Supply Chains Episode 3 - The Power Of Partnerships

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ultimately, the story of supply chains is a story about people. We spoke with a dozen different supply chain experts from around the world who guided ...

Voices on Supply Chains Episode 2 - The Power Imbalance

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The approach that many corporations take with their supply chains passes the environmental and monetary costs down to the small businesses and workers...

Voices on Supply Chains Episode 1 - The Lack Of Worker Power

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Modern supply chains are global, complex, and touch nearly everyone in some way — you’re either part of the production process for a given commodi...

WRI Big Ideas Into Action #66: ACT2025 and vulnerable nations ahead of COP28

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do climate-vulnerable countries want from the forthcoming COP28 conference? In this podcast Nicholas Walton talks to Mark Bynoe and Maria Laura R...

WRI Big Ideas Into Action #65: where does Carbon Dioxide Removal fit in?

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Carbon Dioxide Removal promises to be an important tool in fighting climate change, but how can countries best use it as they reduce their emissions? ...

Big Ideas Into Action #64: four Stories To Watch for 2023

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What are the big stories to watch for 2023? In this World Resources Institute podcast Ani Dasgupta and Nicholas Walton discuss four: the longer term i...

Big Ideas Into Action #63: COP15 and Mexico's biodiversity

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is being done to stop marine biodiversity loss? Marine ecosystems are essential for all life on earth, providing benefits ranging from food to ec...

Big Ideas Into Action #62: Climate-vulnerable countries and COP27

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The evidence continues to mount that the climate crisis is urgent, and action needs to be taken now to avert it and to minimise its impacts. Nowhere i...

Big Ideas Into Action #61: the circular economy and climate action

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tackling climate change and its impacts is complex and multifaceted, and involves everything from simply reducing the fossil fuel emissions in energy ...

Big Ideas Into Action #60: Fiji and the Climate Finance challenge

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is climate finance such an important issue, and how does it affect the world's most climate-vulnerable countries? In this podcast we look at the P...

Big Ideas Into Action #59: 40 years of climate action at WRI

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The World Resources Institute is now 40 years old, but how have the world's climate challenges changed in that time? And how has WRI evolved to meet t...

Big Ideas Into Action #58: Iraq and the Water Peace and Security Quarterly Update

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to predict conflict? That's what the Water, Peace and Security Partnership's machine learning early warning tool sets out to do. Four t...

WRI Big Ideas Into Action #57: international implications of the Inflation Reduction Act

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Inflation Reduction Act that has been signed into law by President Biden is seen as good news for US efforts to combat climate change. But what ar...

WRI Big Ideas Into Action #56: Just Transition in India

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Some cases of just transition are obvious - such as finding replacement jobs and taxation money when a local coal-fired power station closes down. But...

WRI Big Ideas Into Action #55: Just Transition in the United States

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When a coal-fired power station near the US-Canada border closed, what happened to the local community, shorn of its jobs and the healthy tax revenues...

WRI Big Ideas Into Action #54: Just Transition in Australia

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What happens to the workers and communities connected to an Australian coal-fired power station when it is closed down? As the world shifts towards re...

WRI Big Ideas Into Action #53: What is a Just Transition?

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s one of the thorniest issues in the shift to low carbon economies – what happens to those whose lives, livelihoods and communities are left be...

Big Ideas Into Action #52: solutions to the African food crisis caused by the Ukraine War

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How has Africa been affected by the growing food crisis sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine? In this podcast we hear from three experts, their ana...

Big Ideas Into Action #51: Cycling and the Sustainable City

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many governments and authorities started to build cycling infrastructure during the Covid-19 lockdowns, but were these developments temporary or the f...

Big Ideas Into Action #50: Water Peace and Security Quarterly Update 2

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to predict conflict? That's what the Water, Peace and Security Partnership's machine learning early warning tool sets out to do. Four t...

Big Ideas Into Action #49: the IPCC reports on climate change

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has delivered its latest three reports, covering climate science, the impacts of climate change, and the...

Big Ideas Into Action #48: Ukraine, energy and food

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Beyond the immediate human suffering, what are the wider implications of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on energy and food? This is an edited, public ve...

Big Ideas Into Action #47: Stories To Watch deeper dive into climate justice

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is climate justice, and how do we ensure that climate action helps to address rather than exacerbate inequalities in the world? After all, those ...

Big Ideas Into Action #46: achieving clean air for girls and women

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How much do air quality and pollution issues affect women and girls, and how much can solutions to those problems be helped by making sure they have a...

Big Ideas Into Action #45: Stories To Watch deeper dive into the environment/pandemic link

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With the world continuing to struggle with the cost of the Covid 19 pandemic, what are the chances that humanity's continued ill-treatment of nature w...

Big Ideas Into Action #44: Stories To Watch deeper dive on electric mobility

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the biggest challenges of a transition to a low carbon world is to change the way we get around. Electrifying transport is a key element of thi...

Big Ideas Into Action #43: Stories To Watch deeper dive on coal

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Coal is one of the most potent drivers of climate change. Phasing it out is critical for cutting harmful emissions and transitioning to a low-carbon e...

Big Ideas Into Action #42: Water Peace and Security Quarterly Update 1

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to predict conflict? That's what the Water, Peace and Security Partnership's machine learning early warning tool sets out to do. Four t...

Big Ideas Into Action #41: WRI's Stories To Watch 2022

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What are the Stories To Watch for 2022? Every year WRI works out what the important ones are for the year ahead and presents them to the world. This p...

Big Ideas Into Action #40: ACT2025 - The Final Outcome

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This series of ACT2025 podcasts from the World Resources Institute looks at climate from the point of view of vulnerable countries. In this podcast ...

COP26 Shorts: Air Quality

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This new series of short WRI podcasts looks at why COP26 matters for different issues. In this episode Nicholas Walton looks at Air Quality with Jessi...

COP26 Shorts: the Ocean

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This new series of short WRI podcasts looks at why COP26 matters for different issues. In this episode Nicholas Walton looks at the Ocean with Kristia...

COP26 Shorts: Food and Land Use

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This new series of short WRI podcasts looks at why COP26 matters for different issues. In this episode Nicholas Walton looks at Food and Land Use with...

COP26 Shorts: Cities

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This new series of short WRI podcasts looks at why COP26 matters for different issues. In this episode Nicholas Walton looks at Cities with Rogier Van...

COP26 Shorts: Circular Economy

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This new series of short WRI podcasts looks at why COP26 matters for different issues. In this episode Nicholas Walton looks at the Circular Economy w...

COP26 Shorts: Business

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This new series of short WRI podcasts looks at why COP26 matters for different issues. In this episode Nicholas Walton looks at the Business world wit...

COP26 Shorts: The Overview

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This new series of short WRI podcasts looks at why COP26 matters for different issues. In this episode Nicholas Walton gets an overview of what to exp...

COP26 Shorts: Energy

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This new series of short WRI podcasts looks at why COP26 matters for different issues. In this episode Nicholas Walton looks at Energy with Jennifer L...

Big Ideas Into Action #31: Towards a more equal city

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cities are a place of opportunity and inequality, and where more than half the world's population will experience the impacts of climate change. They'...

Big Ideas Into Action #30: ACT2025 - Adaptation

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ACT2025: Adaptation - for more go to www.wri.org/ACT2025 This new series of World Resources Institute podcasts looks at what vulnerable countries wan...

Big Ideas Into Action #29: ACT2025 - Loss and Damage

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ACT2025: Loss and Damage - for more go to www.wri.org/ACT2025 This new series of World Resources Institute podcasts looks at what vulnerable countrie...

Big Ideas Into Action #28: ACT2025 - Finance

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ACT2025: Finance - for more go to www.wri.org/ACT2025 This new series of World Resources Institute podcasts looks at what vulnerable countries want f...

Big Ideas Into Action #27: ACT2025 - Rules

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ACT2025: Rules - for more go to www.wri.org/ACT2025 This new series of World Resources Institute podcasts looks at what vulnerable countries want fro...

Big Ideas Into Action #26: ACT2025 - Ambition

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ACT2025: Ambition - for more go to www.wri.org/ACT2025 This new series of World Resources Institute podcasts looks at what vulnerable countries want ...

Big Ideas Into Action #25: How does Ani Dasgupta see the world's greatest environmental challenges?

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The recent IPCC report underlines just how grave and urgent the environmental challenges facing us are. But how should we frame such challenges in a w...

Big Ideas Into Action #24: Agricultural Adaptation In Africa

06 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Whatever the commitments countries are making about decarbonizing their economies, one thing is certain: climate change is happening, and its impacts ...

Big Ideas Into Action #23: Who won the WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities?

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities is the premier global award celebrating and spotlighting transformative urban change, and its winner for 2020-21 ...

Big Ideas Into Action #22: Transformative Adaptation in Agriculture

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you were a farmer and the climate changed, what would you do about it? At first you might simply try small experiments to adapt – after all, farm...

Big Ideas Into Action #21: WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities finalists

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities is the premier global award celebrating and spotlighting transformative urban change. The five finalists for the ...

Bonus Ocean Panel episode: surfing, sharks and World Ocean Day

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is a special World Ocean Day podcast that was orginally for the WRI Ocean program and the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. It's ...

Big Ideas Into Action #20: How Data is Helping Protect Cameroon’s Forests

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cameroon sits just north of the equator, right on the edge of the vast Congo River basin. It has around 20 million hectares of tropical forest, mainly...

Big Ideas Into Action #19: Women and land rights

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ensuring that women have equal access to land rights, as well as a strong and respected voice in decision making, makes an enormous difference to the ...

Big Ideas Into Action #18: After Joe Biden's Leaders Summit

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Leaders Summit called by President Joe Biden was in effect an opportunity to accelerate the response to the climate crisis - but did it achieve wh...

Big Ideas Into Action #17: fixing the air quality problem

23 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Air quality is critical. Air pollution is linked to more than six million deaths a year , and it affects everything from the health of our lungs to th...

Big Ideas Into Action #16: the Faces of Restoration in Brazil

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Here at WRI we’re used to talking about big ideas, big concepts and big things – from the climate to the ocean to the great cities and forests. Bu...

Big Ideas Into Action #15: 'Count it, change it, scale it' with Andrew Steer

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After eight and a half years Andrew Steer, our President and CEO, is leaving WRI, to lead the Bezos Earth Fund. What has he learned about how environm...

Big Ideas Into Action #14: Global tree loss data for 2020

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Every year the World Resources Institute analyses the latest data on how much of the world's tree cover has been lost in the previous calendar year. T...

Big Ideas Into Action #13: how and why to tackle food waste

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Food loss and waste is a big deal. It means that a third of the food the world produces never gets eaten, and that carries a cost in terms of carbon, ...

Big Ideas Into Action Podcast #12: Texas, India and energy resilience

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In February 2021 Texas was hit by extremely cold weather. People died, transport ground to a halt, and the state's energy system failed. Demand spiked...

Big Ideas Into Action Podcast #11: Stories To Watch for 2021

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What are the stories to watch in 2021? Every year the World Resources Institute comes up with the questions to ask, the challenges to face and the opp...

Big Ideas Into Action Podcast #10: Locally Led Adaptation

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Adaptation is a vital tool to help combat the impacts of climate change, helping us to prepare for everything from changing weather patterns to rising...

Big Ideas Into Action #9: the Paris Agreement, five years on

12 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's now five years since the Paris Agreement, a landmark moment in the fight against climate change. The Agreement's aim is to help countries towards...

Big Ideas Into Action #8: The 100% commitment from the Ocean Panel

02 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The 14 serving national leaders of the Ocean Panel have announced their headline commitment: to sustainably manage 100% of their national waters - an ...

Big Ideas Into Action #7: What will a President Biden mean for the environment?

11 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What will a Joe Biden presidency mean for the environment, for climate action, for energy, for technology? How will this tie in with recovery from the...

Big Ideas Into Action #6: Getting power to the people

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nearly 800 million people around the world lack secure access to the energy they need. Health services, schools, businesses and farms all need reliabl...

Big ideas into action #5: Sustainable cities need safe roads

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Is a city truly sustainable if pedestrians, cyclists and children are being killed and injured on its roads? Over 55% of the world's people now live i...

Big ideas into action #4: empowering people against pollution

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Millions of people in low and middle income countries around the world are affected by problems such as pollution in the air, the soil, the water, but...

Big ideas into action #3: solving water-related conflict

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How much of a role does water play in conflict, and how do you solve such challenges? These are the key questions at the heart of the third "Big ideas...

Big ideas into action #2: restoration in Rwanda

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What is landscape restoration, and what does it look like on the ground? In this second WRI "Big ideas into action" podcast we travel to Rwanda, to he...

Big ideas into action #1: the sustainable ocean economy

24 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Just what is a sustainable ocean economy, and should we get excited about it? That is the subject of the first in a relaunched series of WRI podcasts ...

#56 Development, Africa and climate action post-Covid

14 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A high-level cast of experts looks at some of the big issues about building back better in the wake of the Covid crisis – including the impact on de...

WRI#55 Development Banks and #BuildingBackBetter

07 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What is the role of finance and multilateral development banks in #BuildingBackBetter in the wake of the Covid crisis? Sir Suma Chakrabarti, the outgo...

WRI#54 Air Quality and #BuildingBackBetter

01 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Covid-19 crisis has focused attention on the critical issue of air quality. Some places have experienced much cleaner air thanks to the lack of ca...

WRI#53 Food security and #BuildingBackBetter

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How has the food system fared during the #Covid19 crisis? A recent WRI webinar explored that question, from Colombia to Nigeria to China, and across t...

WRI#52 A Sustainable Ocean Economy

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How - and why - do you build a sustainable ocean economy? WRI's Andrew Steer asks 4 experts affiliated with the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Oce...

WRI#51 Global tree cover loss figures with Frances Seymour

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

WRI's Frances Seymour takes Nicholas Walton through the latest global tree loss figures from Global Forest Watch. The overall picture is bad, but ther...

PRESS CALL: Crafting a U.S. COVID-19 Stimulus Package on Infrastructure

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

WRI press call on how a COVID-19 stimulus package on infrastructure can create millions of jobs and economic growth in the near-term.

WRI#50 Resilience after Covid19

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How do you #BuildBackBetter in a more resilient way after COVID19? This is the shortened version of a live WRI webinar on resilience, featuring Christ...

WRI#49 How can cities #BuildBackBetter after Covid19?

04 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is the fifth in a WRI series looking at the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and asking how we can build back better. This podcast is all about the ...

WRI#48 How can public transport #BuildBackBetter after Covid19?

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The fourth in a World Resources Institute series looking at the impact of the Covid 19 crisis and asking how we can build back better. This podcast fo...

How can international financial institutions #BuildBackBetter after Covid 19?

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is the third in a WRI series looking at how we can #buildbackbetter following the Covid 19 crisis. This is a shortened version of the WRI webinar...

How the US can #BuildBackBetter after Covid-19

15 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second in a WRI series looking at how we can #buildbackbetter following the covid 19 crisis. This is a shortened version of the WRI webina...

WRI Podcast #46: The Covid-19 crisis and how the world can #BuildBackBetter

06 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How can the world #BuildBackBetter from the Covid crisis? WRI's experts from across the world share their thoughts about how we can build a more susta...

WRI Podcast #44: Jane Lubchenco's New Narrative for the Ocean

19 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Lubchenco is one of the world's foremost ocean ecologists. Formerly the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, she is now a...

WRI press call 2.11.20 - tree planting bill

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This press call took place on February 11, 2020 to discuss upcoming policy movements in the U.S. for tree planting as a means of carbon removal and cl...

WRI Podcast #43: A Mother for Road Safety with Zoleka Mandela

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As an advocate for road safety, Zoleka Mandela draws on her grandfather's legacy in speaking out against the injustice of the hidden epidemic that thr...

WRI Podcast #42: Making Palm Oil Sustainable with Andika Putraditama

21 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andika Putraditama, sustainable commodities manager with WRI Indonesia, breaks down how producers and consumers of palm oil can work together through ...

Yamide Dagnet - Euronews COP25 Interview

06 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Yamide Dagnet for COP25 with Euronews.