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December 10, 2024 โ€ข 52 mins

๐˜ฟ๐™–๐™ซ๐™ž๐™™ & ๐™€๐™™ ๐™˜๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™—๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ-๐™จ๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™จ๐™˜๐™ž๐™š๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™š๐™จ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™ž๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐˜ฟ๐™–๐™ซ๐™ž๐™™ ๐™’๐™–๐™ก๐™ก๐™–๐™˜๐™š-๐™’๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™จ. It's a wide-ranging discussion covering everything from the potential fallout of the US election, shifting global interests and priorities, climate activism, China's role in climate and green energy technology, and as usual - listener questions for our guest.ย 

  • (01:27) US election fallout
  • (09:33) Where do we sit globally on climate?
  • (11:59) State of climate activism?
  • (20:07) Communicating climate risk without alarm
  • (29:09) Air pollution
  • (35:22) Listener questions
  • (46:37) China's green tech dominance
  • (49:34) Who should we be reading?

Detailed show notes available here

About Our Guest:
David Wallace-Wells is currently a columnist and staff writer at The New York Times, where he writes a weekly newsletter on climate change, technology, the future of the planet and how we live on it. He was previously the Deputy Editor at New York Magazine, where he also wrote a column on climate change, including the cover story, โ€œThe Uninhabitable Earth,โ€ which was expanded into a New York Times bestselling book with the same title.

About Your Hosts:
David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.

Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. Sheโ€™s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.

Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.

Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts

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