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The Land & Climate Podcast
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Frequency: 1 episode/15d. Total Eps: 126
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Is Earth's climate written in the stars?
vendredi 7 novembre 2025 • Duration 42:28
Controversial efforts at space tourism, such as by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, have reignited old debates about the purpose of space exploration. What relevance does the world beyond our planet have to anyone apart from billionaires and their super-rich clients?
Without defending the growing commercialisation of the space sector, environmental historian Professor Dagomar Degroot offers some answers. In conversation with Alasdair, he examines the solar system's influence on humanity - and humanity's influence on the solar system. They explore how humans have survived past climate shifts, and how human understanding of climate and space have always been connected.
Dagomar Degroot is Associate Professor of Environmental History at Georgetown University and a leading scholar on the Little Ice Age. His first book, “The Frigid Golden Age,” was published in 2018. His new work, “Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean,” is published by Penguin and available to pre-order here. He also has a podcast telling the story of climate's influence on humanity, The Climate Chronicles.
Further reading:
- Little Ice Age Lessons, Dagomar Degroot, Aeon, 2025
- The Frigid Golden Age, Dagomar Degroot, Cambridge University Press, 2018
- The History of Climate and Society, Dagomar Degroot, IOPScience, 2022
- Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present, Benjamin Lieberman and Elizabeth Gordon, 2022, Bloomsbury
- The Story of CO₂ Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made our World, Peter Brannen, 2025, Harper Collins
- Colonial Cataclysms: Climate, Landscape, and Memory in Mexico’s Little Ice Age, Bradley Skipyk, 2020, University of Arizona Press
Click here for our website to read all our most recent Land and Climate Review features and pieces.
Can Gulf petrostates really build green cities?
vendredi 24 octobre 2025 • Duration 31:01
In 2006, the Masdar City project was launched in the United Arab Emirates. Supported by $22 billion in state-funding, it aimed to be the world’s most sustainable city. Situated 6km away from Zayed International Airport, neighbouring a Formula 1 racetrack and golf course, Abu Dhabi’s eco-utopia is full of contradictions.
Bertie discusses why oil-rich Gulf states like UAE and Saudi Arabia are investing in sustainability with Gökçe Günel, Associate Professor in Anthropology at Rice University. Gökçe is the author of Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi, published in 2019 by Duke University Press.
Further reading:
- Inside COP28: A Participant’s Take on Climate Diplomacy Efforts in Dubai, Gökçe Günel, Baker Institute, 2024
- Horizons, Gökçe Günel, e-flux Architecture, 2022
- Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi, Gökçe Günel, Duke University Press, 2019
Click here for our website to read all our most recent Land and Climate Review features and pieces.
Has neoliberalism undermined climate action?
vendredi 6 juin 2025 • Duration 30:34
Germany's 2025 federal election saw the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) double its support to 20.8%, becoming the second largest party, while the Green Party fell from 14.8% to 11.6%. The AfD denies climate science and opposes environmental policies on economic grounds.
This week, Alasdair interviews academic Felix Schulz, whose recent research has examined public attitudes toward climate policy across six countries - three in the global north and three in the global south.
The research found that core values – particularly those derived from neoliberalism and free-market ideology – are more effective than socioeconomic factors in indicating how people will respond to climate policies.
Felix and Alasdair discuss how neoliberal thinking has shaped public opinion, why climate policy must integrate social and economic considerations, and how job security concerns in industrial roles affect political support for climate action.
Felix Schulz is a postdoctoral research fellow at Lund University researching public opinion and climate policy.
Further reading:
- Why focusing on “climate change denial” is counterproductive, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- People with neoliberal views are less likely to support climate-friendly policies, 2025, The Conversation
- Public support for climate policies and its ideological predictors across countries of the Global North and Global South, 2025, Ecological Economics
- Navigating sustainable futures: The role of terminal and instrumental values, 2024, Ecological Economics
- German elections: why most political parties aren’t talking about the climate crisis, 2025, The Conversation
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Can the novel capture the climate crisis?
vendredi 7 janvier 2022 • Duration 22:05
Lauren asks Dr. Mark Bould about his new book The Anthropocene Unconscious.
They discuss whether fiction goes far enough in representing narratives of climate crisis, ranging from Jane Austen’s ‘Mansfield Park’ to the 'Fast & Furious' franchise.
You can also read Lauren's review of 'The Anthropocene Unconscious' here.
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Chatham House's Duncan Brack on the huge emissions from burning US wood overseas
mercredi 8 décembre 2021 • Duration 35:50
"In 2019, the use of United States sourced wood pellets in the UK was accountable for 16 million to 19 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, mostly burned by Drax. That is roughly equivalent to a quarter of all the emissions from the UK power sector."
Edward speaks to Duncan Brack, Associate Fellow at Chatham House and author of numerous reports into industrial-scale biomass and forestry policy.
Read the report here.
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Edward Struzik on the urgent need to restore our peatlands
vendredi 19 novembre 2021 • Duration 30:52
"If you follow the developments at Glasgow, everyone's looking for the Big Idea. This, in my mind, is an obvious one."
Bertie talks with veteran climate journalist Edward Struzik about his new book, Swamplands: tundra beavers, quaking bogs, and the improbable world of peat. They talk COP, burning peat for energy, the process of rewetting peatland, and Edward gives a cultural & historical background to peatlands, arguing that we still need to change cultural perspectives of our bogs, fens and marshes.
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Is Drax UK's single biggest CO2 emitter?
mardi 2 novembre 2021 • Duration 16:46
Alasdair talks to Phil MacDonald, Chief Operating Officer of energy think-tank Ember, about new analysis which places Drax as the UK's single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the UK and among the top 5 emitters in Europe.
Phil provides a startling explanation of how a huge amount of carbon emissions are being missed, and how incentives exist for governments to use biomass for power because of an apparent accounting loophole around its use.
Read Ember's research here.
Click here for our website to read all our most recent Land and Climate Review features and pieces.
Is Sweden's forestry model sustainable, or greenwash?
vendredi 8 octobre 2021 • Duration 16:05
Alasdair talks to Lina Burnelius of Protect the Forest Sweden about the Swedish forestry model and the threat that industry poses to biodiversity and the survival of ancient Forests.
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What is BECCS and what does it mean for climate policy?
Episode 6
vendredi 3 septembre 2021 • Duration 01:01:04
Alasdair speaks to Dr Dan Quiggin, Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House currently researching the implications of using Bioenergy with Capture and Storage or BECCS .
He then asks Ember, Chief Operating Officer, Phil MacDonald [NB after 43mins] for his analysis of negative emissions, BECCS and Dr Quiggin's findings.
They reach sobering conclusions about the potential impact of pursuing BECCS to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Click here for our website to read all our most recent Land and Climate Review features and pieces.
How are preparations for COP26 going?
Episode 5
jeudi 15 juillet 2021 • Duration 20:42
Gareth Redmond-King, COP26 lead at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), talks to Alasdair about the preparations for the next climate talks in November.
He explains what the crucial discussions will be on, the UK's role as a climate leader, recent odd missteps leading to the talks, his take on existing progress and how he thinks talks will go.
Click here for our website to read all our most recent Land and Climate Review features and pieces.
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