Carbon Billionaires
By Max Lawson The growing anger at the carbon emissions of the super-rich The carbon emissions of the luxury consumption of the super-rich are gaining more and more coverage and rightly making a lot of people very angry. This week saw protests at the giant…
Making extreme wealth extinct
By Max Lawson In the week before the COP we released a report together with the Institute for European Environment Policy, (IEEP) with new figures on the carbon emissions of the world’s richest. The report was once again written by my brilliant former colleague at…
POST-COP: WHAT’S NEXT? CLIMATE JUSTICE V CLIMATE COLONIALISM – With Asad Rehman and Nafkote Dabi
By Elizabeth Njambi Here’s your post-COP26 deep dive! What do the outcomes mean for us all? Why were developing countries insisting on reparations? What’s the fuss about billionaire emissions? We welcome two amazing guests from the climate justice movement who were influencing the Glasgow climate…
IS GREEN GROWTH A CONVENIENT LIE? – with Jason Hickel, Economic Anthropologist
By Elizabeth Njambi How fighting inequality and beating climate change means we must end our addiction to economic growth and fast. We’re asking: How are inequality, climate breakdown and growth linked? Why is green growth an impossibility? If rich nations must stop growing, what does…
2021: YEAR OF HOPE? – With Climate Leader Christiana Figueres (& Nafkote Dabi!)
By Elizabeth Njambi 2020 ends. 2021 begins. How can we make sure this will be a defining year in the fight against climate breakdown? What has COVID taught us? And is it possible to be optimistic? We talk to Christiana Figueres – the global climate…
NATURE VS. GREED – Meet Leading Climate Figure Hindou Ibrahim (with Tim Gore!)
How can we reimagine our relationship with nature? Why do we need to bring down the emissions of the rich more than all? How can we bridge climate science with indigenous knowledge? A profound interview with leading climate figure Hindou Ibrahim, an indigenous leader and…
IMF CHIEF KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA – ON COMMUNISM, CARBON, AND CORONAVIRUS
What a way to kick off season 3! Nadia Daar and Max Lawson start us off with a truly illuminating conversation with one of the world’s most powerful people, Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (“IMF”). What does communism have to do…