Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast is for anyone who is not ready to give up on making the world a better place. For unrivalled conversations with decision makers, visionary thinkers and a community of like-minded climate optimists, join former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, political st...
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Inside COP: A New Economy Rising - from promises to progress
Will COP30 be the COP of ‘implementation’? And what would that actually mean?
Beyond the famous negotiating halls, climate action is already ha...
Remembering Jane Goodall
Following the sad news this week of Jane Goodall’s passing, Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac remember her extraordinary work, personality and...
Inside COP: How to Build a COP
How do you build a COP? With just a few weeks to go until COP30 in Belém, we take listeners inside the high stakes and the complex mechanics of a clim...
Inside COP: The countdown to COP30 at New York Climate Week
How does COP deliver a pathway to dealing with the worsening climate crisis? That’s the big question as attention across the world turns to COP30 in B...
From Courtrooms to Statehouses: The US Climate Pushback
This week on Outrage + Optimism, we join the Be Hope global podcast takeover - a collaboration of shows amplifying courage and possibility in facing t...
Beyond the Bad News: Evidence for Climate Optimism
From stalled UN plastics treaty talks, to the hottest summer on record across much of the northern hemisphere - it’s been a bleak few weeks for climat...
Rising Tides: How indigenous communities are facing the climate crisis
What does it mean to live on the front lines of climate change - where rising seas, collapsing ecosystems and the legacies of colonialism collide?
Listening to the Living World: Can AI help us hear the planet?
What if we could not only listen to the rest of nature, but actually understand it?
From decoding whale songs to giving nature a legal voice, th...
Introducing: Inside COP - the Official COP30 Podcast from Outrage + Optimism
Live from Belém… it’s Outrage + Optimism! (Or it will be.)
This year’s COP is one of the most significant in years, and we’ll be there with you...
You Are What You Eat: Soil, Seeds and Social Justice
What’s really in the food on our plates? The journey to our supermarket shelves is one of broken economics, environmental destruction, and social inju...
Too Hot to Handle?: Facing a Future Beyond 1.5°C
As global temperatures continue to skyrocket, the once unthinkable is now within view: overshooting 1.5°C of warming. This limit, set out in the Paris...
Mistakes, Mistruths and Misinformation: Climate's biggest myths debunked
Isn’t climate change just part of a natural cycle? Weren’t CO2 levels much higher in the past? And, even if we should be worried, can one person reall...
Trump’s War on Climate - and Maggie Baird on food justice and plant-based touring with Billie Eilish
As record heat scorches the US, Trump’s government is making things dramatically worse. We break down the devastating implications of the One Big Beau...
*Breaking Planetary News*: The ICJ Climate Opinion Explained
“An Existential Problem of Planetary Proportions”
International Court of Justice President Yuji Iwasawa just delivered a landmark advisory opini...
Planes, Protests, Pensions... and have banks given up on saving the planet?
Can a pilot really be the change-maker who helps us to holiday nearer home? Why aren’t governments and institutions doing more to help climate activis...
From Outrage to Action: Your Questions, Our Answers
We’re handing the mic over to you on this week’s Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast.
In this special Q&A episode, Christiana Figueres, Paul...
The Climate Case of the Century: Inside the story of a youth-led legal movement
In a world-first, the International Court of Justice is preparing to deliver an advisory opinion on climate change and human rights - all thanks to a...
O+O Recommends: 'When Science Finds A Way'
Last episode, we explored the urgent connection between climate and health, and brought you a powerful and timely conversation with Julia Gillard, for...
Health Warning: The Human Cost of Climate Inaction with Julia Gillard
Scientists warn that the world could breach its 1.5°C emissions limit within just 2-3 years. It’s a scary thought, but across the globe, many are grap...
Could This Change Your Life?: The Climate Tech Revolution
While climate diplomacy grapples with global uncertainty, there’s a quiet revolution happening that may be just as important - thousands of breakthrou...
Hope for the High Seas?: Sylvia Earle and Oceans on the World Stage
World leaders, scientists and ocean advocates are gathering in Nice for the 3rd UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) and hopes are high that progress can be mad...
COP30: Can Brazil deliver a global breakthrough?
This November, Brazil will host COP30 in Belém, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, in what is bound to be a moment packed with symbolism, high expe...
Sovereignty and Survival: A Spotlight on Vanuatu
How far would you go to protect your home?
In this week’s special episode, Christiana Figueres brings us a deeply personal and political dispatc...
When Business Is Political: Climate commitments in an age of backlash
As the US federal government drifts further into anti-climate rhetoric and abandons its national and international commitments, can non-state actors h...
The Spanish Grid Goes Down: Are renewables really to blame?
On April 28th, millions of people across Spain, Portugal and beyond were plunged into darkness in one of Europe’s most severe blackouts in decades. Wa...
Technology vs Transition?: What Tony Blair gets right - and wrong - about net zero
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair says that net zero is politically unachievable without radical rethinking: a shift away from reducing consumption...
Beyond the ‘Climate Wars’?: Australia heads to the polls
Australia heads to the polls this weekend - with climate firmly on the ballot. Is the country ready to lose its reputation as the battleground of the...
The End of Oil? Inside the Hidden Decline of Fossil Fuels | Earth Day Special
Are we witnessing the beginning of the end for fossil fuels?
This Earth Day, Outrage + Optimism explores a seismic shift in global energy: the p...
The Death of Pope Francis: A Short Message from Christiana
In the wake of this morning’s sad announcement about the death of Pope Francis, Christiana Figueres reflects on his important legacy as a champion for...
China's Decarbonisation Leadership: Is Trump (accidentally) fueling Beijing's climate takeover?
As the US retreats from international climate leadership and looks increasingly inwards, can China step up and steer the global energy transition? And...
Tariffs, Trump, and Al Gore on the Future of Democracy: What on earth is happening?
What happens when the US tears up the rulebook on global trade? And what does that mean for the planet? Plus: what on earth is happening in Greenland?...
Delay, Deny, Derail: Inside the fossil fuel lobby’s playbook at COPs
How have fossil fuel lobbyists become so embedded in the COP system, and how can we disrupt their involvement in domestic and international politics?...
Behind the Scenes at Kyoto: Drama and diplomacy on the world stage
What did it take to get nearly 200 nations to agree on tackling climate change in 1997? And what have we learned in the decades since?
In this e...
Canada's Climate Crossroads: Will Carney deliver real progress?
Is Canada a climate leader or a fossil-fueled dinosaur? And what will the recent ascension of Mark Carney as Prime Minister mean for the country’s cli...
Justice for the Planet: The case for climate litigation
How can the law be used to champion human rights, drive progress and fight for climate justice? Paul Dickinson is joined by Laura Clarke, CEO of Clien...
Why ignoring women endangers the climate | International Women's Day 2025
Are women the key to solving the climate crisis? Why are they - and children - so disproportionately affected by the issue? And how can men step up to...
Can philanthropy fill the hole left by USAID?
Development programmes across the world are still reeling from the swingeing cuts to USAID, whilst other western nations such as the UK and Germany ha...
Inside Costa Rica’s Climate Fight: Can the nation hold on to its green ideas?
How does a nation transform its forest coverage from 21% to 60% in half a century? What are the policies that can place nature at the very heart of po...
Beyond Trump: The new frontlines for climate action
What is the future of climate action? Having previously interrogated the failures of multilateralism in the years since the Paris Agreement was signed...
How big oil is holding back progress on the Paris Climate Agreement
Christiana Figueres, the driving force behind the groundbreaking Paris Climate Agreement, reflects on the high-stakes negotiations that reshaped the g...