Planet A - Talks on Climate Change
63 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago -A podcast on climate change hosted by the Danish Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, Dan Jørgensen. Inviting some of the world’s leading experts, policy makers and activists to share their thoughts with us. Not only to address the challenges and dilemmas inherent in climate change. But also to talk about its possible solutions.
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Preserving Our Future with Noah’s Ark for Plants
April 24, 2024 11:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBIn this episode of Planet A, the ‘father’ of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Cary Fowler, takes us on an extraordinary journey through his mission to safeguard the world’s agricultural heritage. Placed deep in the Arctic, the Seed Vault stands as a global insurance, protecting millions of seed samples from the growing threats of climate change. Dr. Fowler shares his thoughts on the connection between food security and climate change, highlighting the importance of increasing diversity in c...
The Green Blueprint: EU Commissioner on the Union’s Climate Strategy
April 12, 2024 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen sits down with EU Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra, to explore the central role he plays in shaping the European Union’s approach to reducing emissions. Transitioning from a career in the energy sector to a key climate policy leader, Hoekstra offers unique insights into the EU’s climate targets and strategies. They discuss the EU’s own emission targets as well as its role as a global influencer in climate action. Hoekstra emphasizes...
A talk with Germany’s Special Climate Envoy
March 15, 2024 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBIn this episode of Planet A Germany’s Special Climate Envoy, Jennifer Morgan, shares her insights from leading climate negotiations for the German Government. A key focus of the discussion is the outcomes and implications of COP28 in Dubai, but the conversation also delves into the significance of Germany’s role in international climate finance and the establishment of the loss and damage fund. Looking ahead, they discuss the road to COP29 and COP30, emphasizing the need for strategic fina...
A Small Island Nation’s Climate Challenge
February 26, 2024 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBIn this episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen engages in a compelling dialogue with Ralph Regenvanu who serves as the Minister responsible for climate change, energy, the environment, weather, geological hazards, and disaster management in Vanuatu. The island state of Vanuatu is one of the most vulnerable countries facing numerous challenges due to its vulnerability to climate change. Throughout the episode, Regenvanu shares insights into how this small island nation is grappling with the sev...
Ajay Banga’s Vision for the World Bank: Combating Both Climate Change and Poverty
February 06, 2024 13:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBIn this episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen engages in a conversation with the President of the World Bank Group, Ajay Banga. With a career spanning prestigious roles, including President and CEO of Mastercard, Ajay Banga now steers one of the leading institutions in the global fight against climate change and poverty. The episode delves into the multifaceted role of the World Bank, revealing its structure and mechanisms for supporting global development. Ajay Banga explains the World Bank’...
COP28 - A Historic Turn in Climate Politics?
January 24, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBIn this episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen delves into the outcomes of COP28 with Alden Meyer, a seasoned expert in climate politics. With over four decades of experience with climate issues, Meyer provides a deep dive into the historic achievements of the negotiations and the challenges that lie ahead. They reflect on COP28’s historical significance, marking the first global acknowledgment of the need to transition away from fossil fuels and the establishment of the loss and damage fund. ...
COP28 – The Eleventh Hour
December 12, 2023 14:00 - 16 minutes - 11.8 MBIn the latest episode of "Planet A", Dan Jørgensen talks with Tomas Anker Christensen, Denmark's Climate Ambassador, amidst the high-stakes atmosphere of the UN Climate Conference COP28 in Dubai. As negotiations enter the eleventh hour, the mood is tense and uncertain, with crucial decisions, not least regarding the future of fossil fuels, hanging in the balance. This episode delves into the complex and often difficult process of international climate negotiations, providing listeners with ...
Tomas Anker Christensen - An update on the COP28 negotiations
December 06, 2023 20:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBIn this episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen and Denmark's Climate Ambassador, Tomas Anker Christensen, updates the listener about the ongoing negotiation at the UN Climate Conference COP28 unfolding in Dubai. Recorded in a quiet corner amid the bustling conference, they offer an insider's perspective on the negotiations and milestones achieved thus far. The episode sheds light on important decisions, such as the establishment of the loss and damage fund, and the overall status on global clim...
Bangladesh Today: A Window to the World’s Future
November 28, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBIn this episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Special Envoy for Environment and Climate Change to Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh and parliament member in Bangladesh, a country severely affected by global warming. Chowdhury sheds light on Bangladesh’s vulnerability, positioned between melting Himalayan glaciers and rising sea levels in the Bay of Bengal. They discuss the stark reality that Bangladesh represents the “ground zero” of climate change. As...
Mafalda Duarte - Supporting Developing Countries while Taking Care of the Climate
November 10, 2023 09:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBIn this episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen is joined by Mafalda Duarte, the executive director of the world’s largest climate fund – the Green Climate Fund. Mafalda Duarte sheds light on how the fund is at the forefront of aiding developing countries on their path to development that is both low in emissions and resilient to the climate. She explains the fund’s projects which span billions of dollars and how to balance this with the needs of developing countries: “We have to put ourselve...
Claude Turmes - A Fossile Free Ride
October 27, 2023 10:00 - 44 minutes - 31.3 MBIn this episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen sits down with The European "Mr. Energy", Claude Turmes, for a conversation that spans personal anecdotes, political experiences, and urgent climate challenges. Claude Turmes has served as the Minister for Energy in Luxembourg for almost five years, and has been a tireless and prominent advocate for green energy and sustainability for decades both within Luxembourg and the European Union. He was Vice President of the parliamentary group of the Gr...
Henrik Stiesdal - On developing the modern wind turbine and offshore wind technology
September 22, 2023 17:00 - 52 minutes - 36.6 MBIn this episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks to a true pioneer within the field of wind energy, the father of the modern Danish wind turbine and the world's first offshore wind farm, Henrik Stiesdal, former Chief Technology Officer of Siemens Wind Power. Stiesdal shares his personal story, recounting how, as a young farmer boy during the 1973 oil crisis, he built his first wind turbine to harness affordable wind power for his family. He also tells the story of how the world's wind turb...
Chris Bowen – Changing the course of Australian Climate Policy
August 11, 2023 12:00 - 41 minutes - 29.3 MBIn this episode of Planet A Dan Jørgensen talks to Chris Bowen, Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy. This July was the hottest month ever recorded. Just another fact that underlines that humanity has to live with the devastating consequenses of climate change such as natural disasters. “No country is being spared, and they're increasingly frequent, increasingly severe, and increasingly unnatural. They're not natural disasters anymore, because they're caused by human activ...
Achim Steiner - How to Fight Poverty and Climate Change at the Same Time
July 14, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes - 41.6 MBIn this episode of Planet A Dan Jørgensen talks to Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). They discuss the threats climate change poses to global development and the fight against poverty, the urgent need for financial markets to support the green transition and climate adaptation in developing countries, as well as their expectations for COP28. Steiner brings almost thirty years of experience in sustainable development, climate resilience, and internatio...
Graham Hill - What Difference can an Individual Make?
July 01, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes - 25.1 MBIn this episode of Planet A Dan Jørgensen talks to Graham Hill who is a dedicated climate change advocate and sustainability pioneer. Graham Hill explains how he works to change the mindset on climate change within a corporation, what it takes to change a culture and how to reduce your carbon footprint by following “The Big Six”. In the discussion Hill quotes the legendary management consultant and writer Peter Drucker stating that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”, which is a key poin...
Rainn Wilson - Is there Anything Funny to Say about Climate Change?
June 09, 2023 16:00 - 54 minutes - 38.4 MBIn this episode Dan Jørgensen talks to American actor and comedian Rainn Wilson. He is perhaps best known for playing Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom “The Office” which has earned him three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. But Rainn Wilson is also strongly engaged in climate activism, and he works tirelessly to raise awareness of global warming. Wilson and Jørgensen crack a couple of jokes and discuss how humor can be used in the fight...
Angela Carter - On National Bans and Global Commitments to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
May 26, 2023 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBIn this 4th episode of the 6th season of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks to Dr. Angela Carter, who is a leading expert on phasing out fossil fuels. They discuss the risks of fossil fuel dependency, especially for the least developed countries, the need to align fossil fuel production with our climate imperative, and the importance of global commitments to keep fossil fuels in the ground. These international efforts include the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) and the Fossil Fuel Non-Prolife...
The Road to COP28 - with Climate Ambassador Tomas Anker Christensen
May 12, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes - 31 MBIn this 3rd episode of the 6th season of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks to the Danish Climate Ambassador, Tomas Anker Christensen, about the road to COP28 and pushing for higher ambitions through global climate diplomacy. What is the current status of the four critical UN work streams – mitigation, adaptation, finance as well as loss and damage – and how can we expect to see them addressed at COP28? With the latest IPCC report in mind, they share their concerns as well as expectations and hop...
Simon Stiell - On UNFCCC, the COP process and the Global Stocktake
March 18, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes - 32.7 MBIn this 2nd episode of the 6th season of Planet A Dan Jørgensen talks to the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, better known as UNFCCC, Simon Stiell. They discuss the unique role of the UNFCCC in the global fight against climate change. The challenges ahead on the critical work streams – mitigation, adaptation, finance as well as loss and damage - and why Simon Stiell likes to describe his own position as “Accountability Chief”. They also talk about the ...
Helen Thompson - On the Geopolitics of Energy
February 24, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 30 MBIn this 1st episode of the new 6th season of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks to Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University, about the geopolitics of fossil fuels and how the green energy transition affects the world order. Thompson´s current research concentrates on the political economy of energy and the democratic, economic, and geopolitical disruptions of the twenty-first century. She is also well known for co-hosting the highly acclaimed podcast Talking Politi...
Kim Stanley Robinson – On Climate Fiction and “The Ministry for the Future”
August 28, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBThe heat waves of the future could produce deadly “wet bulb temperatures” that would kill millions of people by sheer heat exhaustion. How will governments, citizens and international organizations react, if a heat wave killed 20 million people in India? That is the premise of the novel “The Ministry for the Future” – a novel that mixes science fiction and environmentalism. The guest on the premiere episode of the fifth season of Planet A is renowned science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robin...
Chris Anderson - How to spread good ideas about Climate Change
June 06, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes - 21 MBSolutions to climate change are ideas worth spreading. And that is what TED is all about. On the sixth episode of Planet A’s fourth season, the curator of TED, Chris Anderson, spreads his ideas on how to make a good talk and address climate change in a way that excites and motivates people. TED has been sharing big ideas on climate change for more than 15 years with prominent speakers like Al Gore, Bill Gates, and Prince William – as well as the host of this podcast, Dan Jørgensen. So how...
Jason Box – What the Ice Can Tell Us About Climate Change
April 27, 2022 15:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBSometimes having good talks on climate change requires a good listener. And we have one of the best in Professor Jason Box on the 5th episode of Planet A’s fourth season where Dan Jørgensen talks with the esteemed professor of glaciology about the state of the Greenland Ice Sheet and what it can tells us about the changing climate. Jason Box has been co-author of the latest three assessment reports from IPCC and co-wrote the decisive UN report ‘Climate Change 2007’ for which the team was c...
Jonathan Safran Foer – How Breakfast Can Stem Climate Change
April 08, 2022 14:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBIn the 4th episode of Planet A’s fourth season, Dan Jørgensen talks with the renowned American author, Jonathan Safran Foer. His debut “Everything Is Illuminated” and his later novels “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” and “Here I Am” has established him as one of the most thought provoking American authors in this century. Over the last decade his non-fiction books “Eating Animals” and “We Are the Weather – Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast” plunged him into the debate on climate ...
Dr. Debra Roberts – Adapt or die: The new IPCC report and our options for adapting to climate change
March 12, 2022 16:00 - 38 minutes - 27 MBIn the 3rd episode of Planet A’s fourth season, Dan Jørgensen talks with Dr. Debra Roberts co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC). The IPCC recently released its report ”Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” that assesses the impact climate change could have on ecosystems, biodiversity and human communities. Dr. Roberts calls the report a clear wake-up call that will force us to either ”adapt or die”. For some animals, the latter option may ...
Lutz Weischer – How to become a global climate champion?
February 15, 2022 23:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBIn the 2nd episode of Planet A’s fourth season, Dan Jørgensen talks with Lutz Weischer, Head of Policy for the NGO Germanwatch. Germanwatch works on a wide range of environmental issues, but is perhaps best known for its annual publication of “CCPI” - the Climate Change Performance Index. As evident in numerous international assessments, the world is currently not on track to limit the rise of global temperatures to 1.5 degrees celsius and climate action is urgently needed. Thus, th...
Joseph Nye – How is Soft Power the answer to a hard problem like Climate Change?
January 21, 2022 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBIn the 1st episode of Planet A’s fourth season, Dan Jørgensen talks with Professor Joseph Nye of Harvard University. Professor Nye gained global fame by introducing the term “soft power”, that is the ability of a country to persuade others to do what it wants – without using force or coercion. In this episode of Planet A, he explains how soft power is particularly relevant to address transnational problems like climate change. Professor Nye also talks about the increasing importance of e...
Dr. Kate Marvel – Why on Earth is NASA Studying Climate Change and Clouds?
December 22, 2021 15:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBIn the 5th episode of Planet A’s third season, Dan Jørgensen talks with Dr. Kate Marvel. Dr. Marvel is a research scientist at Columbia University and works for NASA, studying how climate change affects our planet. Her research has not only made her an eminent expert on the interplay between clouds and climate change, but also brought her international prominence for her TED Talk “Can clouds save us from climate change?”. In the podcast, she explains how clouds both warms and cools the E...
Laurence Tubiana and Tomas Anker Christensen – Deciphering COP26
December 03, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBIn the 4th episode of Planet A’s third season, Dan Jørgensen talks with Laurence Tubiana and Tomas Anker Christensen about the complexity of negotiations at COP26 in Glasgow, the significance of the outcome and the nature of the COP proces. Laurence Tubiana is CEO of the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and the former French Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for COP21. In this capacity, she became the key architect of the Paris Agreement. Tomas Anker Christensen is the...
Laurence Tubiana and Tomas Anker Christensen – Deciphering COP26
December 03, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBIn the 4th episode of Planet A’s third season, Dan Jørgensen talks with Laurence Tubiana and Tomas Anker Christensen about the complexity of negotiations at COP26 in Glasgow, the significance of the outcome and the nature of the COP proces. Laurence Tubiana is CEO of the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and the former French Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for COP21. In this capacity, she became the key architect of the Paris Agreement. Tomas Anker Christensen is the...
Inger Andersen – COP26 and the Emissions Gap
November 05, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBIn the 3rd episode of Planet A’s third season, Dan Jørgensen talks with Inger Andersen, the Under-Secretary-General of the UN and Executive Director of UNEP (the United Nations Environment Programme). UNEP recently published this year’s “Emissions Gap Report: The Heat Is On”. The Gap Report is a science-based assessment of the gap between countries’ climate pledges and the reductions required to deliver a global temperature increase of below 2°C by the end of this century. UNEP also publis...
Inger Andersen – COP26 and the Emissions Gap
November 05, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBIn the 3rd episode of Planet A’s third season, Dan Jørgensen talks with Inger Andersen, the Under-Secretary-General of the UN and Executive Director of UNEP (the United Nations Environment Programme). UNEP recently published this year’s “Emissions Gap Report: The Heat Is On”. The Gap Report is a science-based assessment of the gap between countries’ climate pledges and the reductions required to deliver a global temperature increase of below 2°C by the end of this century. UNEP also publis...
David Livingston and Varun Sivaram – The US Perspective on COP26 and Beyond
October 31, 2021 09:00 - 39 minutes - 27.7 MBIn the 2nd episode of Planet A’s third season, Dan Jørgensen talks with David Livingston and Varun Sivaram. Livingston and Sivaram serve as Senior Advisers to President Biden’s Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry. Thus, they play a key role in fulfilling President Joe Biden's climate policy on the world stage. In this episode, Livingston and Sivaram discuss the US priorities and expectations for COP26. They argue that COP26 can act as an accelerator for more ambitious climate targets, wh...
Dr. Juergen Voegele – How to feed 10 billion people and reduce emissions in a changing climate
October 01, 2021 11:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBIn the 1st episode of Planet A’s third season, Dan Jørgensen talks with Dr. Juergen Voegele, the World Bank’s Vice President for Sustainable Development. Dr. Voegele is one of the world’s leading experts on the interplay between food production, agriculture and climate change. In his current capacity, he oversees the World Bank’s entire efforts on agriculture, food, climate change and the environment. In recent years, Dr. Voegele has emerged as a thought leader on the challenges that the ...
Jason Bordoff - on the geopolitics of climate change
July 03, 2021 18:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBIn the 10th episode of Planet A’s second season, Dan Jørgensen talks with Jason Bordoff, the Director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and the Dean of the University’s Climate School. They touch upon the lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis and the temporary decline in global energy consumption, the Biden administration and climate politics in the US. And they discuss the geopolitics of climate change, where Bordoff argues there is a difference between the influ...
Jennifer Morgan – On Greenpeace, COP26 and climate activism
May 29, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBIn the 9th episode of Planet A’s second season, Dan Jørgensen talks with Jennifer Morgan, the Executive Director of Greenpeace International. Over the last twenty years, Morgan has worked with climate change at leading NGOs such as World Resources Institute (WRI) and World Wildlife Foundation (WWF). Moreover, she has participated in every single COP and served as Review Editor for the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. During the interview, they disc...
Dr. Lucas Joppa – How can data and AI stem climate change?
May 14, 2021 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBIn the 8th episode of Planet A’s second season, Dan Jørgensen talks with Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Officer, Dr. Lucas Joppa. Dr. Joppa has worked at the nexus of data and sustainability throughout his career and is now leading Microsoft’s efforts to become a carbon negative company. Furthermore, he leads the company’s work on data and tech solutions that can help decarbonize the entire world. Perhaps unbeknownst to many, the use, storage and processing of data emit as much CO2 as t...
Elizabeth Kolbert – On the Perils and Promise of Geoengineering
April 29, 2021 14:00 - 38 minutes - 27.1 MBIn the 7th episode of Planet A’s second season, Dan Jørgensen talks with the journalist and author, Elizabeth Kolbert. Kolbert first achieved international prominence when her bestselling book “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 and the Guardian named it the best non-fiction book of all time. She has worked for the New York Times and the New Yorker magazine since the early 1980’s. A recurring theme in her writing has been the consequences o...
Elizabeth Kolbert – On the Perils and Promise of Geoengineering
April 29, 2021 14:00 - 38 minutes - 27.1 MBIn the 7th episode of Planet A’s second season, Dan Jørgensen talks with the journalist and author, Elizabeth Kolbert. Kolbert first achieved international prominence when her bestselling book “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 and the Guardian named it the best non-fiction book of all time. She has worked for the New York Times and the New Yorker magazine since the early 1980’s. A recurring theme in her writing has been the consequences o...
Joseph Stiglitz – On Getting Carbon Pricing Right
April 09, 2021 14:00 - 44 minutes - 31.3 MBIn the 6th episode of Planet A’s second season, Dan Jørgensen talks with the American economist and Nobel Laureate, Joseph Stiglitz. Stiglitz explains why he is a strong supporter of a “Cross Border Adjustment tax”, which adds the cost of carbon emissions to the price on imported goods and thus prevents carbon leakage. The economist underlines the importance of imposing a higher social cost of carbon and believes it should be upwards of 100 US dollars per emitted ton CO2. Stiglitz and Jør...
George Monbiot – Rewilding: How Wolves Changes a River
March 26, 2021 03:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBIn the 5th episode of Planet A’s second season, Dan Jørgensen talks with the British writer, activist and environmentalist, George Monbiot. Monbiot has been a regular columnist for The Guardian since 1996 and authored ten books on social justice, climate change and other environmental issues. He achieved global acclaim for his award-winning book “Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding”. In the book, Monbiot advocates that humanity must “rewild”; that society must ...
Jonathan Franzen – What if we stopped pretending?
March 12, 2021 16:00 - 44 minutes - 31 MBIn this 4th episode of the 2nd season of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with the American writer Jonathan Franzen. Franzen is the author of numerous short stories and essays, but is most widely known for his novels “The Corrections”, “Freedom” and “Purity”. Furthermore, he has been a contributor to “The New Yorker” Magazine since 1994 and written seminal essays on climate change and environmentalism. During the interview, Franzen talks about his essay “What if We Stopped Pretending?” that ...
Vice Admiral McGinn – Why climate change is a threat to global security
February 27, 2021 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBIn the 3rd episode of the 2nd season of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with Dennis “Denny” McGinn, a retired Vice Admiral from the United States Navy, about why climate change is a threat to global security and stability. Prior to his retirement, Vice Admiral McGinn served as the Commander of the 3rd US Fleet and as the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations. He crowned a distinguished military career by working as President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 2013 to 2017. In this capac...
Li Shuo – On China’s domestic and international climate politics
February 12, 2021 14:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBIn the 2nd episode of season 2 of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with Li Shuo from Greenpeace East Asia about Chinese domestic and international climate politics ahead of COP26. Li Shuo works as Greenpeace’s Senior Climate and Energy Policy Officer in Beijing and leads the NGO’s international political delegation at the COP-meetings. Thus, he offers a unique insight regarding China’s domestic environmental policies and its relationship to the international climate negotiations. Li Shuo a...
David Wallace-Wells – Are we creating an ‘Uninhabitable Earth’?
January 29, 2021 13:00 - 53 minutes - 37.4 MBIn this first episode of a new season of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with David Wallace-Wells about the multitude of interlinked problems created by climate change. Wallace-Wells, a journalist and deputy editor of New York Magazine, achieved global fame by writing the long-form essay “The Uninhabitable Earth” in 2017. The essay laid out – in excruciating detail – just how dire the climate crisis is for the prospects of human civilization. Wallace-Wells went beyond the traditional portr...
David Wallace-Wells – Are we creating an ‘Uninhabitable Earth’?
January 29, 2021 13:00 - 53 minutes - 37.4 MBIn this first episode of a new season of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with David Wallace-Wells about the multitude of interlinked problems created by climate change. Wallace-Wells, a journalist and deputy editor of New York Magazine, achieved global fame by writing the long-form essay “The Uninhabitable Earth” in 2017. The essay laid out – in excruciating detail – just how dire the climate crisis is for the prospects of human civilization. Wallace-Wells went beyond the traditional portr...
Sharan Burrow – On workers’ rights, a green recovery and the need for a just transition
December 27, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.7 MBIn the 14th episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with Sharan Burrow about how we can make the green transition fair for workers. Burrow is General Secretary of “ITUC” (the International Trade Union Confederation), a Brussels-based union organization that works to promote and defend workers’ rights and interests around the world. During Burrow’s tenure as General Secretary, ITUC has become an increasingly important voice on climate action but remains deeply committed to a “just transit...
Alden Meyer – Taking stock: Five years after the Paris Agreement
December 11, 2020 19:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBIn the 13th episode of Planet A, we commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, as Dan Jørgensen talks with Alden Meyer about the history of the international climate negotiations. Meyer is one of the world’s most prominent advisers on climate policy and served as Director of Strategy and Policy at the Union of Concerned Scientistsfor four decades. Today he is senior associate for the climate think-tank E3G. During the conversation, Meyer takes us through from the adoption ...
Michał Kurtyka – Can Poland balance coal and wind in a just transition?
December 10, 2020 20:00 - 31 minutes - 22.1 MBIn the 12th episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with Poland’s Minister of Climate and Environment, Michał Kurtyka, about his experience as President of COP24 as well as his country’s goal to reduce coal power and build more renewable energy. This is no small feat, considering how important coal mining is to the Polish economy. Thus the overarching theme of this episode is the question of a “just transition” and its impact on Poland. The country has been the European heartland of coal ...
Michał Kurtyka – Can Poland balance coal and wind in a just transition?
December 10, 2020 20:00 - 31 minutes - 22.1 MBIn the 12th episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with Poland’s Minister of Climate and Environment, Michał Kurtyka, about his experience as President of COP24 as well as his country’s goal to reduce coal power and build more renewable energy. This is no small feat, considering how important coal mining is to the Polish economy. Thus the overarching theme of this episode is the question of a “just transition” and its impact on Poland. The country has been the European heartland of coal ...