Zero: The Climate Race
Episodes
How to quit your job for the climate
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What causes a restaurant critic to trade the gourmet for the green? Why does a Shell geophysicist leave their decade-long career working on oil and ga...
Should the climate movement embrace property destruction? with Andreas Malm
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout history, no social movement has succeeded without utilizing property destruction as a tactic, and if the climate movement is to be effectiv...
Are democracies up to the climate challenge? with Daniel Fiorino
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The task of cutting emissions is becoming more urgent by the day. Are democracies up to the challenge? Do we have time to let the usual course of cons...
How did a good idea go so wrong? Carbon offsets with Mark Trexler
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Carbon offsets are everywhere – a $2 billion dollar industry that’s set to grow even more as the US is even incorporating them in its effort to fu...
The world’s food system needs a radical rethink, with George Monbiot
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What’s worse for the planet than Big Oil? The world’s food system, argues environmental journalist and campaigner George Monbiot in his new book R...
Why it’s so hard to invest in clean energy in Africa
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
COP27 ended with a historic agreement on loss and damage, but other major challenges remain — including the gap that has long existed between energy...
The lengths Lewis Pugh goes to save the oceans
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lewis Pugh has swum across seas and in between melting sea ice, but the hardest part of his work is what comes after – contributing to negotiations ...
How climate activists adapted to a repressive regime at COP27
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whether the so-called implementation COP will live up to its promise will be answered this week as negotiators begin to do the work of writing the fin...
Can climate change be solved without COP? with Patricia Espinosa
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As week one wraps up at COP27 in Sharm El Sheik in Egypt, Bloomberg Green Reporter Akshat Rathi talks with Patricia Espinosa, who until August 2022 wa...
Biden Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi thinks Democrats have green momentum
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are rapidly approaching the end of week one at COP27 and all eyes are turning to the US, with President Biden to make a visit on Friday. Bloomberg ...
The Bahamas' Prime Minister Philip Davis wants money to protect his oceans
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After a frenetic two days of discussions at COP27, with hundreds of leaders arriving in Egypt, the demands of vulnerable countries are clear: show us ...
At COP27, a breakthrough on loss and damage? with Saleemul Huq
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
COP27 has begun, with 45,000 delegates expected to attend the two-week conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. One of the key discussion points is finan...
Will the US finally become a climate leader? with Leah Stokes
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While the United States fancies itself a global climate leader, the country is coming off a decade of tumultuous policy: It signed the Paris Agreement...
Africa's climate reparations require data that doesn't exist
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Weather data is invaluable. It influences the decisions of governments and companies around the world. It’s used to predict energy consumption, harv...
Oil boss Vicki Hollub is selling 'net-zero oil'. Do you buy it?
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Finally made to reckon with the climate crisis, most oil companies are turning to clean-energy technologies. Not Occidental Petroleum. Akshat Rathi ta...
Justin Trudeau on his struggle to reduce Canada's emissions
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pitches the country as a leader on climate and says it is on track to reduce emissions 45% by 2030. The reali...
Australia’s new climate politics will reshape its entire economy with Adam Bandt & David Pocock
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate was the defining issue of this year’s elections in Australia, with independent and green candidates promising climate action sweeping into p...
Inside the stealth startup making zero-emission steel
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Steel is the backbone of modern society, and it’s also responsible for 7% of global greenhouse-gas emissions every year. This summer, Bloomberg Gree...
A big climate bill for a new era of climate tech with Bill Gates
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What role will the landmark climate bill in the US play in spurring innovation? Is cutting emissions in rich countries enough to solve the climate cri...
Why venture capital is crucial to the climate fight with Gabriel Kra
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What role does venture capital have in bringing carbon-cutting technologies to reality? Does it prop up bad ideas or free outrageous ones? In this epi...
How to crisis-proof climate action with Bryony Worthington
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The UK’s Climate Change Act was one of the first in the world to be passed in 2008 and is part of the reason the nation became a leader in cutting e...
Welcome to Zero
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zero explores the tactics and technologies taking us to a world of zero emissions. Each week, Bloomberg Green’s award-winning climate reporter Aksha...