Nov 21

Can Solar Energy Save the Planet?

Climate summits such as the ongoing COP30 conference can often seem like a place where countries agree to disagree and little gets done. But Bill McKibben says there’s one key reason for hope: the sun. New advances in panels and battery technology mean solar power will soon provi ... Show More

42m 37s

Nov 14

Is Trump Angling for Regime Change in Venezuela?

As the United States points its biggest warship at Venezuela, what is the White House trying to achieve in Caracas? How does it fit into the Trump administration’s broader Latin America policy? And how is the region responding? Host Ravi Agrawal sits down with scholar Oliver Stue ... Show More

44m 58s

Nov 4

Unpacking the Trump-Xi Meeting

China analyst and former policymaker Elizabeth Economy sits down with Ravi Agrawal to unpack the meeting that took place last week between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. What was agreed to? What does it mean for the broader trajectory of the world’s ... Show More

38m 19s

Nov 2022

COP27 climate reparations and democracy activists fear Elon's Twitter

At COP27, the UN's conference on climate change this week, countries in the Global South are calling for a loss and damage compensation fund. And for the first time, it's actually on the agenda. The central argument for the fund is that the countries most vulnerable to climate ch ... Show More

30m 41s

Jul 2021

Putting a Price on Pollution

Extreme weather across Europe, North America and Asia is highlighting a harsh reality of science and history: The world as a whole is neither prepared to slow down climate change nor live with it.European officials are trying to change that. The European Commission, the ... Show More

25m 40s

Dec 2022

Who Pays the Bill for Climate Change?

Last month at COP27, the U.N. climate change conference, a yearslong campaign ended in an agreement. The rich nations of the world — the ones primarily responsible for the emissions that have caused climate change — agreed to pay into a fund to help poorer nations that bear th ... Show More

45m 40s

Apr 2021

Can the U.S. Win Back Its Climate Credibility?

During a global climate summit, President Biden signaled America’s commitment to fighting climate change with an ambitious target: The U.S. will cut its economywide carbon emissions by 50 percent of 2005 levels by 2030. What became clear is that the rest of the world h ... Show More

27m 1s

Dec 2023

Harjeet Singh: Getting rich countries to pay up for climate change

UN climate conferences don't generally start off with a bang. But COP28 in Dubai this year did just that, when on day one a Loss and Damage fund was created to support developing nations hit hardest by climate change. It's been a 30-some year fight to get here for climate activis ... Show More

21m 45s

Apr 2023

Special Report: Landslides exacerbated by climate change

How can the most vulnerable countries protect against climate change if they’re drowning in debt? A major international aid agency revealed this week that 93% of the world’s worst-affected countries can’t afford to safeguard against natural disasters. Some are being forced to sla ... Show More

56m 30s

Jun 2021

John Kerry on Climate Change: Introducing Global Reboot

We introduce Global Reboot, a new podcast that like And Now The Hard Part, looks to tackle the world's biggest problems. In the premiere episode, FP's new Editor-in-Chief Ravi Agrawal speaks with U.S. climate envoy John Kerry about strategies for reducing global carbon emissions. ... Show More

27m 51s

Nov 2021

From Hurricane Katrina to COP26: How to be a stubborn optimist in the face of the climate crisis

Over the past two weeks, world leaders and delegates from nearly every country have gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26. This annual summit on climate change will attempt to update the 2015 Paris agreement with accelerated action, higher targets and more ambitious cuts to ca ... Show More

32m 35s

Mar 2022

Silver Linings From The UN's Dire Climate Change Report

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just released the second of three reports on climate change. Nearly 300 scientists from all over the world worked together to create this account of how global warming is affecting our society. NPR climate report ... Show More

10m 6s

Aug 2023

New Technology Is Here To Fight Climate Change. Will We Use It?

Despite global efforts to slow the effects of climate change, July was the hottest month on record in over 125,000 years. The good news is, powerful new technology not available just a few years ago can help turn things around, if we get serious about taking action. Bloomberg’s E ... Show More

27m 4s

John Kerry on the Climate Crisis