Planet A - Talks on Climate Change
63 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 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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Mohamed Nasheed – Should the next COP be the last COP?
November 25, 2020 12:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBIn the 11th episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with the former Maldivian President, Mohamed Nasheed. Mr. Nasheed managed to put his country on the map of global climate politics during his tenure as President of the Maldives (2008-12) and became one of the strongest global voices on climate action. After being ousted in 2012, Nasheed was exiled to England where he was granted political asylum. However, two years ago, he returned to the Maldives and last year his party (The Maldives ...
Ernest Moniz – On the technologies we need and what Joe Biden can do for the climate
November 13, 2020 12:00 - 54 minutes - 38.1 MBIn the 10th episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with Barack Obama's former Secretary of Energy, Dr. Ernest Moniz. Dr. Moniz holds a doctoral degree in theoretical nuclear physics and made his first foray into Washington-politics as President Bill Clinton’s Under Secretary of Energy (1997-2001). He is widely recognized as one of the most knowledgeable people on the planet, when it comes to energy, science and politics. Thus, it should be no surprise that POLITICO ranks him as a leadin...
Ernest Moniz – On the technologies we need and what Joe Biden can do for the climate
November 13, 2020 12:00 - 54 minutes - 38.1 MBIn the 10th episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with Barack Obama's former Secretary of Energy, Dr. Ernest Moniz. Dr. Moniz holds a doctoral degree in theoretical nuclear physics and made his first foray into Washington-politics as President Bill Clinton’s Under Secretary of Energy (1997-2001). He is widely recognized as one of the most knowledgeable people on the planet, when it comes to energy, science and politics. Thus, it should be no surprise that POLITICO ranks him as a leadin...
Svenja Schulze – On the EU climate law and a higher emission reduction target
October 29, 2020 19:00 - 18 minutes - 13.4 MBIn the 9th episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with Germany’s Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Svenja Schulze Minister Schulze is one of the world’s most important decision makers in contemporary climate politics. In her current job, she is not only facing the monumental task of decarbonizing Germany, Europe’s largest economy. Minister Schulze is also shouldering a vital international task, as Germany holds the presidency of the European C...
Special edition - selected insights on climate change
October 15, 2020 20:00 - 14 minutes - 10.4 MBThe 8th episode of Planet A is a special edition, featuring highlights from the preceding 7 episodes of the podcast. The roster of guests is (in order of appearance on this episode): Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Dr. Jane Goodall, Primatologist and Conservationist Katherine Richardson, Professor in Biological Oceanography at the University of Copenhagen Lord Nicholas Stern, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute ...
Dr. Julio Friedmann - on carbon capture, utilization and storage
October 02, 2020 15:00 - 21 minutes - 15.2 MBIn the seventh episode of the podcast, Dan Jørgensen talks with Dr. Julio Friedmann, who served as Lead of President Obama’s Research and Development program for Carbon Capture and Storage and CO2 utilization in the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Friedmann is renowned as one of the world’s leading experts on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as well as Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS). The discussion on the podcast covers CCS – the process of capturing carbon and storing it un...
Christiana Figueres - on the past, present and future of the COP-negotiations
September 17, 2020 21:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBIn the sixth episode of the podcast, Dan Jørgensen talks with Christiana Figueres, the former United Nations’ Climate Chief about the past, present and future of the international climate negotiations. Figueres was appointed Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC in July 2010 and five years later she successfully rallied 195 nations around the Paris Agreement. She recounts the change from COP15 in Copenhagen to COP21 in Paris, resulting from gradually changing the political mindset from one of ...
Jane Goodall - on chimpanzees, humans and climate change
September 03, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBIn the fifth episode of the podcast Dan Jørgensen talks with Dr. Jane Goodall, the world’s leading primatologist, about the similarities between chimpanzees and humans as well as how climate change impact us all. She describes how the changing climate disproportionally affects wildlife and the poorest people around the globe. Dr. Goodall argues, that the world must overcome poverty, consumerism and population growth to prevent an environmental catastrophe. Particularly people in the develo...
Katherine Richardson - on climate tipping points and what humanity can learn from nature
August 20, 2020 16:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBIn the fourth episode of the podcast, Dan Jørgensen talks with Katherine Richardson, Professor in Biological Oceanography at the University of Copenhagen and one of the world’s leading experts on climate change. Based on her research article “Climate tipping points - too risky to bet against”, they discuss the notion of climate tipping points - such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest and the West Antarctic ice sheet – and how they can cause irreversible damage to the global eco-system. ...
Nicholas Stern - on the economics of climate change in the age of COVID-19
August 06, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBIn the third episode of Planet A, Dan Jørgensen talks with Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. Jørgensen and Stern discuss the economics of climate change, climatic change feedback mechanisms and the need to build sustainable infrastructure in the coming decades. Stern argues that the consequences of climate change is “far, far worse” than he anticipated in his 2006 report “The...
Jeffrey Sachs - on globalization, climate change and happiness
July 21, 2020 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBIn this second episode of the podcast, Dan Jørgensen talks with Jeffrey Sachs, Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. They discuss climate change and the urgent need for a swift global green energy transition in light of Sachs’ new – and very timely – book, “The Ages of Globalization”. A discussion that also touches on the subjects of poverty, sustainability and happiness. Professor Sachs started his illustrious career as an academic and is...
John Kerry - on climate politics in the wake of the COVID-19
July 10, 2020 08:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBIn this first episode of the podcast, Dan Jørgensen talks with former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry about the outlook for climate politics, in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. They discuss the consequences of COVID-19, the urgent need for global leadership on the climate issue, the promise of the Paris Agreement and the importance of big investors engaging in the green transformation. Furthermore Kerry shares his view on the resurgence of activism and the potential of the climate movem...
Planet A
July 03, 2020 09:00 - 1 minute - 1.07 MBThe fact of the matter is that we do not have a “Planet B”. Welcome to Planet A - a podcast on climate change hosted by the Danish Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities, Dan Jørgensen. This podcast will invite 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. The first three episodes will feature former Secretary ...