Outrage + Optimism Podcast Episodes
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347: Beyond COP: Can Brazil Chart a Path Off Fossil Fuels?
We take an unflinching look at our dependency on fossil fuels - and ask, how do we begin to loosen that grip?
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Season 12 Energy + Climate
346: What does Trump’s UNFCCC exit mean for climate diplomacy?
15 January 2026
We examine the United States’ decision to withdraw from international bodies including the UNFCCC - could the absence of the US voice, paradoxically, unlock progress elsewhere?
Season 12 Energy + Climate
345: Venezuela, Fossil Fuels, and the Year Ahead
08 January 2026
What will 2026 bring? Following the shocking US abduction of Venezuela’s president, we’re asking not just what kind of year lies ahead for climate action, but what kind of global order will shape it.
Season 12 Health, Wellbeing + Climate
344: Beginning the Year With Ancestral Wisdom
01 January 2026
As we recognise that the challenges before us are cultural and spiritual, as well as technical and political, how might ancestral wisdom reshape the new year of 2026 and beyond?
Past Episodes
Season 12
343: Why Beauty Matters in the Climate Crisis
Season 12
342: Follow The Money: Who’s driving climate disinformation?
Season 12
341: Paris, 10 Years On - Has it Changed the World?
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340: Jacinda Ardern and… Is It Time to Talk About Geoengineering?
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339: Kim Stanley Robinson on pre traumatic imagination and the stories that change us
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338: Inside COP: The Final Hours of COP30 - and the road ahead
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337: Inside COP: Friday Night in Belém - uncertainty in the Blue Zone
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335: Inside COP: Fire at COP30 and the work still to be done
Season 12
336: Inside COP: Friday Morning in Belém - what’s changed and why it matters
