Zero: The Climate Race
Episodes
How to build a battery that replaces a coal plant
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, a visit to the energy startup trying to replace coal with a very cheap battery. Form Energy has attracted nearly $900 million in investment...
How the ‘rich man’s energy club’ became a climate champion
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you rebuild an international organization for the climate era? That’s what the Paris-based International Energy Agency has done over the past...
Why the new IPCC report is so important
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report is out and it makes for sober reading. Published roughly every seven years, IPCC repor...
What the Silicon Valley Bank collapse means for climate tech
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a "climate bank" goes under? This week, Bloomberg Green reporter Akshat Rathi interviews the CEO of an AI battery startup that had j...
What it takes to become a climate tech CEO, with Katie Rae
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve got the technology that can change the world, are you the best person to implement it? Investors pay careful attention to the CEO of any c...
Building a future where humanity will thrive, with Achim Steiner
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since the Human Development Index was established in 1990, it has trended gradually upward, as people’s health, wealth and opportunities have improv...
How Europe ditched Russian fossil fuels with spectacular speed
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 wid...
The new climate race between EU and US, with Jennifer Morgan
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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. Bu...
Everybody wants a better battery, Christine Ho is printing one
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This summer, Bloomberg Green reporter Akshat Rathi visited Imprint Energy, a Silicon Valley startup that prints batteries. Using the same tools as scr...
Can Sweden’s 27-year-old climate minister match up to the far right? with Romina Pourmokhtari
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
High-octane capitalism meets climate change, with Chamath Palihapitiya
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How a fossil-fuel company became a wind giant, with Mads Nipper
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
How climate reached the world's elite in Davos, with Gail Whiteman
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 r...
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...