Climate Curious

How local clean energy is going global: perspectives from Brazil, China and Ethiopia

A solar panel in Shanghai and a wind turbine in Brasília might sound worlds apart, but the people installing renewables around the globe are breaking similar barriers and

How a community built its own renewable energy farm, with Westmill Energy

Fancy making over a million quid for your community and beyond from shared renewable energy resources? Climate Curious spent a day in sunny Oxfordshire with the fine folk

Can going to the pub be a climate action? With Adam Bastock

“AI can do a lot of good things, but I'd like to see it out-drink a room of 30 people” jokes the founder of Small99 and People Planet Pint, Adam Bastock. From sleepless h

How to write a constitutional climate amendment on your notes app, with Lake Liao

"I literally took out my notes app, and I wrote an amendment," says 21-year-old climate activist and Director of the Federal Climate Amendment Institute, Lake Liao. Tune

Can markets beat illegal mining in the Andean Amazon?

“The private sector entering the Amazon is most often flanked by soldiers, allowing the extractive companies to come in,” says impact investor Michelle Arévalo-Carpenter.

What cacao can teach us about protecting the Amazon, with Michelle Arévalo-Carpenter

"When you ask a young indigenous man to give up all of his land for $20,000, he'll say no way, because what grows in there is gold, cacao is gold!" Michelle Arévalo-Carpe

How the prisoner’s dilemma can reveal climate priorities

“Games can go into spaces where sometimes it's hard to have these conversations,” say game designers Nathan Harrison and Mel Frances, as they unpack how gaming and scenar

How to make shipping part of the climate solution, with Joojin Kim

If global shipping was a country, it would be the world's sixth largest greenhouse gas emitter. But help is on its way. Joojin Kim tells Climate Curious we can sink shipp

How Nigeria is leading a repair transition, not just an energy one, with Vincent Egoro

Africa is solar rich. But what happens when the panels stop working? Vincent Egoro – a former architecture student who once studied by candlelight and now founder of Ener

How to unlock billions for climate and stay chill, with Jennifer Kitt

"Unless we come together, we can't build it. So yeah, I'm chill," says Jennifer Kitt on the Climate Curious podcast. If new money is moving into climate, this philanthrop

Why climate doesn't need better solutions, it needs bigger bets, with Jennifer Kitt

“80 of the most urgent [climate solutions] could take $5 billion tomorrow,” says Jennifer Kitt on Climate Curious. Recorded live in London with Climate Curious co-hosts B

How $147m supported citizens across America doing what most pundits said was impossible: ending the reign of King Coal, with Bruce Nilles

“We walked out of his office, to the first bar, had a couple shots of tequila, and then got to work”, says environmental lawyer Bruce Nilles on stage as our guest at ‘Cli

What the end of 'King Coal' means for Big Oil & Gas, with Bruce Nilles

"I love doing it and I'll be doing it for a while, 'cause we ain't done yet," says the legendary lawyer who spurred a global campaign that led to the closing of 390 U.S.

Are you ready to lead your town through an extreme weather event? With the game designers behind ‘The Future For Beginners’

Could you protect your city through an extreme weather event? ‘The Future For Beginners’ is a game exploring climate risk and decision-making under uncertainty. Working t

Who are the incrementalists? with Dana R. Fisher

Break the system, don’t just tweak it. That’s what sociologist and professor Dana R. Fisher says on this week’s Climate Curious. Tune in with co-host Maryam Pasha to lear

How to move public outrage into systemic action, with Dana R. Fisher

“The deal is, we're gonna get the revolution we deserve,” says sociologist, author, and apocalyptic optimist, Dana R. Fisher. Having spent 26 years studying and documenti

The secret life of glaciers, with Dr M Jackson

“A glacier is full of one single snowflake holding hands with the next snowflake,” says glaciologist and Nat Geo explorer, Dr. M Jackson. “Billions and trillions of snowf

Why ebola and hantavirus are also climate warnings, with Dr. Neil Vora

“The solution is right at our fingertips,” says doctor and disease detective Dr. Neil Vora, talking about why ebola and hantavirus are also climate warnings on the Climat

Could this literary genre help protect the planet? With author Helen Phillips

Speculative fiction – the latest tool for imagining what’s possible on climate? Author of ‘Hum’ and winner of the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize, Helen Phillips, joins Climat

How to feed a starving glacier, with glaciologist M Jackson

Our glaciers are starving, but there’s a solution! Says glaciologist, National Geographic Explorer and TED Fellow Dr. M Jackson on the Climate Curious podcast. In convers