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  • Carbon capture, Fossil fuels, Markets

Can Gulf petrostates really build green cities?

Bertie is joined by Gökçe Günel, who breaks down why oil-rich states are investing in sustainability.
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  • Fossil fuels

Colombia versus oil and gas: what’s the truth behind the transition?

Alasdair speaks with third-year doctoral student Guy Edwards about the impact of President Gustavo Petro’s pledge on Colombia’s energy transition.
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  • Fossil fuels, Markets, Politics & law

Why are foreign companies suing governments that decarbonise?

Alasdair talks to Eunjung Lee about investor-state dispute settlements.
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  • Fossil fuels, Nuclear, Renewables, Security

What is the future for Ukraine’s energy sector?

Bertie speaks with Professor Maksym Chepeliev about how three years of conflict have affected Ukraine's decarbonisation plans.
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  • Fossil fuels, Politics & law

How does fossil fuel-funded research affect policy?

Bertie talks to Transport & Environment's Agathe Bounfour about an investigation into oil-funded research groups and EU policymaking.
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  • Fossil fuels, Markets

Has Equinor made Norway dependent on oil?

Alasdair talks to Professor Jonas Fossli Gjersø about the history of Equinor - previously Statoil - and the way it has shaped Norway's economy, history, and environmental policy.
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  • Fossil fuels

Will fossil fuels ever be history?

Professor Paul Stevens, of University of Dundee and Chatham House, discusses the history of energy transitions and the fallacy of ‘peak oil’.
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  • Fossil fuels

Fuelling the fire: does Russia have its head in the sand about the future of fossil fuels?

Lauren talks Professor Thane Gustafson about how Russian leaders' commitment to climate change is affected by factors both at home and overseas.
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  • Fossil fuels, Markets

Will the Russian economy survive fossil phase-out?

Lauren talks to Thane Gustafson about the future of Russian Oil through the Climate Crisis and the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
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  • Fossil fuels

How to tackle methane in a meat-eating world?

Our guests Anatoli Smirnov and Sabina Assan are researchers at Ember, international data analysts for clean energy solutions in the power sector.
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  • Fossil fuels

Phasing out fossil fuels: is real progress being made?

Romain Ioulalalen from NGO Oil Change International (OCI) tells Alasdair where we are on the global phase out of fossil fuels, what the current challenges are, how COP26 was significant and what political changes to expect in the next few years on oil and gas.
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  • Fossil fuels

Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough with Holly Jean Buck

Is the net zero approach to climate mitigation working, or is it an unrealistic framework that does more to help corporations than the planet? Bertie talks to Professor Holly Jean Buck, from the University at Buffalo.
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Ember’s Phil MacDonald on powering past coal
  • Bioenergy, Fossil fuels

Ember’s Phil MacDonald on powering past coal

Chief Operating Officer of energy think tank Ember, Phil MacDonald, talks to Alasdair about the new challenges of decarbonising the global energy sector and what has been achieved so far in Europe in the UK.
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“Shocking and sad”: how corporations use investment agreements to block decarbonisation in the Global South
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Drax-owned facilities broke environmental rules more than 11,000 times in the US
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  • Bioenergy, Politics & law
Drax fined again over pollution: “I’m afraid to go outside,” say residents
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Can the past reframe our view of a sustainable future? 
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Fusion: is it finally coming together?
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