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340: Jacinda Ardern and… Is It Time to Talk About Geoengineering?
This week, hosts Tom Rivett Carnac and Paul Dickinson delve into the rapidly emerging - and faintly surreal - world of solar geoengineering.
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Season 12 Culture + Climate
339: Kim Stanley Robinson on pre traumatic imagination and the stories that change us
27 November 2025
This week, we explore storytelling as a cultural tool for moving from despair to determination in a reflective conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, the acclaimed author of The Ministry for the Future.
Season 12
338: Inside COP: The Final Hours of COP30 - and the road ahead
23 November 2025
In this episode, Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac and Paul Dickinson examine how the final day of COP30 unfolded, what was agreed, and what it might mean.
Season 12
337: Inside COP: Friday Night in Belém - uncertainty in the Blue Zone
22 November 2025
This episode is a time capsule that captures the feeling of a COP Friday: the confusion, the determination, the fear of losing ambition, and the belief, still very much alive, that progress is possible.
Past Episodes
Season 12
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
Season 12
334: Inside COP: Storms in Belém - Lula’s arrival, the carbon tariff debate, and the COP31 decision
Season 12
333 : Inside COP: China, India… and the Text on the Table
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332: Inside COP: Coal’s out, pressure’s on - a pivotal moment for COP30
Season 12
331: Inside COP: The fight for the Amazon
Season 12
330: Inside COP: Al Gore on Fossil Fuel Lobbying and (In)convenient Truths
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329: Inside COP: The UN’s Top Climate Official on Week One of COP30
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328: Inside COP: Protests at COP30 - and the reality of Indigenous representation
