Episode 1: What Does Success Look Like At COP26?
The Climate Briefing is a monthly podcast from Chatham House, exploring the major issues that shape international debates around climate change. In this first episode, the team focus on what happened...
View ArticleEpisode 2: European Climate Ambitions
The Climate Briefing returns with interviews on European approaches to climate action, and the role that business can play in achieving the Paris Agreement goals. Johanna and Ben are joined in the...
View ArticleEpisode 3: Climate Change and National Security
Extreme weather, rising sea levels and a melting Arctic - the effects of climate change are posing an increasingly large threat to national security worldwide. In this episode the team explore the...
View ArticleEpisode 4: Coronavirus and Climate Change
In this bonus episode Tim Benton, Director of the Energy, Environment and Resources Programme at Chatham House, speaks to Anna about the environmental implications of COVID-19. How might manmade...
View ArticleEpisode 5: How to Finance Climate Action
Finance plays a key role in enabling climate change mitigation and adaptation. It is also a contested issue in the UN climate negotiations. The UK Government has made climate finance one of its top...
View ArticleEpisode 6: How to Decarbonise Industry
Industry accounts for approximately 24% of global energy-related emissions, and the decarbonisation of the sector is therefore essential to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. To date, however,...
View ArticleEpisode 7: How to Encourage the Energy Transition
The Climate Briefing returns with two new interviews on the transition towards a renewable energy sector. It is widely acknowledged that slowing climate change will be impossible without reducing the...
View ArticleEpisode 8: How Did We Get Here? A History of the Climate Negotiations
The Climate Briefing returns from its summer break with a deepdive into the history of the international climate agenda. Professor Robert Falkner of the Grantham Institute speaks to Ben about the...
View ArticleEpisode 9: What Does the US Election Mean for Climate Change?
The media cycle in the US and across the world is consumed by the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election, with incumbent Donald Trump hoping to win a second term against the challenge of former...
View ArticleEpisode 10: Carbon Pricing and the Article 6 Negotiations
In the latest episode of the Climate Briefing the team explore the concept of carbon pricing, a set of mechanisms which incentivise businesses and consumers to reduce their carbon emissions, and...
View ArticleEpisode 11: The Shifting Politics of Climate Change
More than five years have passed since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, and there are only nine months to go until COP26. To kick off its second season the Climate Briefing podcast focuses on how...
View ArticleEpisode 12: Managing the impacts of climate change
This week the Climate Briefing turns its attention to how societies are can deal with the real-time effects of climate change. While mitigation remains a central focus of the international climate...
View ArticleEpisode 13: How can the G7 accelerate climate action?
In 2021 the UK is hosting COP26, but also presiding over the G7. How can it leverage its presidency of the G7 to accelerate climate action in the run-up to COP26? To discuss this, Anna is joined by...
View ArticleEpisode 14: Debt, development and climate action
Ahead of the G7 Summit in June 2021, the Climate Briefing returns to the question of financing climate action. While the economic challenge of dealing with climate change was already well-established...
View ArticleEpisode 15: Can the G20 act on climate change?
The G20 - an international gathering of leaders from 19 major states and the European Union - has a significant role to play in coordinating global action on climate change. Accounting for around...
View ArticleEpisode 16: COP26, the state of play
September 2021 saw a series of significant diplomatic events which could be key to successful climate negotiations at COP26. Now with mere weeks to go before the main event, attention is increasing on...
View ArticleEpisode 17: Cascading climate risks
A series of recent scientific studies have found that the world is on course for global warming far exceeding the 1.5 degree goal enshrined in the Paris Agreement. Meanwhile across the globe...
View ArticleEpisode 18: The UN biodiversity talks
The crises of climate change and biodiversity destruction are closely linked. In this episode, Anna speaks to Sam Geall (CEO of China Dialogue, Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and Associate Faculty...
View ArticleEpisode 19: COP26 week one round-up
COP26 is finally upon us, and The Climate Briefing team are on the ground in Glasgow to bring you all of the latest updates and developments from the summit. In this episode, Ben introduces a round-up...
View ArticleEpisode 20: Gender and climate policy
Due to gender inequalities, women are disproportionately affected by climate change, and Indigenous women and women in the Global South are on the front lines of these impacts. The UNFCCC has...
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