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Planet Pod episodes

  • Planet Pod gets to Zero
    Join Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change member and Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III Professor Jim Skea & Alyssa Gilbert, Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute for first in our shared series on getting to Net Zero. They take an in-depth look at the target of net zero emissions and help to answer questions like What is Net Zero? How do we achieve it? What will it look like? Can we get there by 2050?

    Future podcasts in the series will draw on the expertise of Imperial academics to pick apart the net zero target sector by sector, and show the kind of change required to meet these targets.

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    44 min
  • The Politics of Climate Change

    Join Amanda for this special Planet Pod episode recorded live at Tonbridge School as part of the Tonbridge Talks Festival of the Environment.  Panelists debating the Politics of Climate Change include experts from business, politics and conservation: Anjuli Pandit - UK Head of Corporate Sustainability forBNP Paribas, David Hone - Chief Climate Change Advisor with Shell International, Gareth Redmond-King - Head of Climate Change at WWF-UK & April Clark - Green Party counsellor for Tonbridge and Malling. 

    We hear Shell's prediction that we won’t achieve net zero carbon before 2070, although do we have the technology to prevent catastrophic global warming.  There are more encouraging words from WWF and Green Party, and we hear how BNP Paribas are divesting from all fossil fuel investment.  A lively debate and Q&A session afterwards!


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    51 min
  • XR Gets Political
    Love them or hate them, XR has electrified the frame of climate change debate. With mass occupations disrupting cities across the globe, over a thousand XR protesters were arrested in London alone in a week. Planet Pod spoke to Marijn van de Geer, Director of Resolution:Possible and active member of XR from the very start and Steve Shaw, campaigner and founder of Power for People, who is leading the Parliamentary Campaign to get the Three Demands Bill into parliament. How does Extinction Rebellion work? Why get arrested? What is the Three Demands Bill and how will it create change?Get the inside story here....

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    39 min
  • Climate Strikes - What's Next?
    In the wake of the global climate strike Amanda talks to the UK Student Climate Network about The Green New Deal and hears from the only law firm in the UK to declare a Climate Emergency, exploring how we should build on the momentum of the biggest climate mobilisation in history. This is the second in our series on Youth Activism.

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    37 min
  • School's out - Strike for the Planet!
    On Friday 20 Sept 2019 millions of children and young people around the globe will strike to demand action against the global warming which threatens the planet. What is motivating them to take to the streets? Are they right? Should we support them? Hear from a striking student, a striking lawyer and a strike sceptic in the first of our Youth Activism Series on the Global School Climate Strike

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    41 min
  • Music for Trees
    What music would you associate with Japanese Elm, Purple Plum, Field Maple or Oak?  Find out how music is being used to enhance our enjoyment of trees by joining Amanda in Regent's Park to explore the Royal Parks’ brand new immersive “Music for Trees” experience.  Amanda talks with Royal Parks arboriculturalist Matt Steinmann, editor of Resurgence magazine Marianne Brown and students Isaac and Margetta from the Royal Academy of Music, two of the composers of pieces written for each tree species.

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    33 min
  • We Are What We Wear
    Planet Pod asks whether fashion has to cost the earth or is there a more sustainable way to look and feel good in the clothes and accessories we buy? We explore the real cost of what we wear with Amelia Womack, Deputy Leader of The Green Party and Sustainable Fashion Blogger, Sophie Slater, Co-Founder of Birdsong and Bronwyn Lowenthal, Founder and Design Director of Lowie.

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    39 min
  • Planet Pod's Climate Emergency Update

    Emissions gaps, carbon budgets, net zero, global heating, 1.5 or 2 degC - we pick big brains at The Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College to get the latest update on the climate emergency and unravel the language, science and policy of climate change.

    Planet Pod talked to Dr Joeri Rogelj, Leading Climate Scientist and Lecturer in Climate Change and the Environment and Dr Alyssa Gilbert, Head of Policy and Translation for Climate Change and the Environment for this special episode marking Climate Action Week.


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    39 min
  • Once Upon a Farm
    Is it ever sustainable to eat beef? When is food "slow food" and what's the environmental cost and benefit to taking it slow?  Join the Planet Pod team down on the farm as Amanda chats with Bridget and Bill Biddell, owners of Hampton Estate and Shane Holland, Executive Chairman of Slow Food.

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    33 min
  • Planet Pod WED Special: From Wild Lynx to Human Swan
    In this Planet Pod World Environment Day Special, Amanda took time out during Climate Action North's Rewilding -  A Solution for Climate Change conference to talk to "Human Swan" Sacha Dench and David Hetherington, Cairngorms National Park Authority ecology advisor and author of "The Lynx and Us", about how they are encouraging us all to look differently at the way rewilding can provide solutions to climate change.

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    20 min

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