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Challenging Climate Jesse Reynolds and Pete Irvine
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Asking tough questions about the science, technology, and politics of climate change, two climate researchers challenge leading experts on one of the defining issues of our age. Every two weeks, they explore how we can fight global warming by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, carbon removal, adaptation and solar geoengineering. Dr. Jesse Reynolds and Dr. Pete Irvine consider the roles of computer models and persuasive narratives, economics and public policy, and renewable energy and national security in the climate debate, and look beyond to issues such as biotechnology and international development.
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40. Jennifer Allan on global climate governance and the COP28 agenda
Jennifer Allan is a Strategic Adviser and Team Leader with Earth Negotiations Bulletin, and Lecturer at Cardiff University. Jen has attended roughly 40 UN conferences where states negotiate the rules of global climate governance. Her work explores how global rules are made and remade, and currently focuses on the politics of ecosystem services and green recovery. In this episode, we discuss with Jen key agenda themes in the forthcoming COP28, the social inequality of climate change and whether COPs deliver useful outcomes - or is it just fanfare?
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Jennifer Allan’s profileCOP28 Thematic ProgramIEA World Energy Outlook 2023 - Oil demand to peak by 2030 Support the showSubscribe for email updates -
39. Greg Nemet on how solar became cheap (with Energy vs Climate)
Today’s episode is brought to you in collaboration with our friends at the Energy vs Climate podcast. Energy vs Climate breaks down the trade-offs and hard truths of the energy transition in Alberta, Canada, and beyond with energy experts David Keith, Sara Hastings-Simon and Ed Whittingham.
In this episode, they speak with Greg Nemet, a Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. His research focuses on technological change in energy and the ways in which public policy can affect it. Listen as they discuss the trajectory of solar energy, coming down the cost curve and the energy supply chain.
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Energy vs Climate PodcastGreg Nemet’s profile Check out Greg’s book, How Solar Energy Became Cheap Topic links:
Nemet’s paper on Inter-technology knowledge spillovers for energy technologies (Timestamp: 07:43) Paper on Evaluating the causes of cost reduction in photovoltaic modules (Timestamp: 24:18) NREL Report on U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System and Energy Storage Cost Benchmark: Q1 2020 (Timestamp: 27:21) Originally published on The Energy vs Climate show on 24 Feb 2022.
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A brief podcast review and update
As we break for the summer, listen here for some highlights of our previous episodes and catch up on the ones you've missed. See you in October!
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38. Richard Tol on Climate Economics: the cost of carbon, geoengineering & IPCC
Richard S.J. Tol is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Sussex and the Professor of the Economics of Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is also the author of Climate Economics: Economic Analysis of Climate, Climate Change and Climate Policy. In this episode, Tol breaks down climate economics – the economic and social costs and benefits of carbon. We also discuss the case for geoengineering and his criticisms on IPCC.
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37. Emma Marris on our rambunctious garden: wilderness and human influence on nature
Emma Marris is an environmental writer and Institute Fellow at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. She has also written for National Geographic, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Wired, and other publications. In this episode, we dive into the concepts introduced in her book Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World, such as wilderness and nature purity. We discuss the relationship between nature and humans, from assisted migration to climate change, and how we can re-envision it.
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Emma Marris’ profile Marris’ weekly articles on The Atlantic Check out her books, Wild Souls and Rambunctious Garden As recommended by Emma, The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole
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36. John Moore on the melting cryosphere and glacier geoengineering
Dr John Moore is a Research Professor at University of Lapland, Finland and Chief Scientist of GCESS at Beijing Normal University. His research focuses on geoengineering, sea level change, and ice sheet dynamics. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the cryosphere – the state and future of glaciers, sea ice and permafrost, as well as consider marine glacier geoengineering. John also shares his unique experience as a leader of a major geoengineering research program in China.
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John Moore’s profile His paper on several cryosphere interventions His call for marine glacier geoengineering His latest study on the ocean curtain idea Support the showSubscribe for email updates
Customer Reviews
One of the best climate podcasts out there
As someone who works in the field, I still learn a lot from every episode. Kudos to Pete and Jesse for their great work. We need more of the respectful but challenging conversations modeled here!