The Climate Briefing
By Chatham House
Climate change and geopolitics meet in The Climate Briefing, assembling experts, scientists and leaders to tackle some of the thorniest challenges in sustainability.
Hosts Ruth Townend and Anna Åberg bring brilliant guests and big questions to Chatham House from around the world.
Hosts Ruth Townend and Anna Åberg bring brilliant guests and big questions to Chatham House from around the world.
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Episode 49: China’s role in international climate diplomacy and action
China is the world’s largest emitter and dominates the production of low-carbon technologies worldwide. It thus plays a key role in global efforts to address the climate crisis. How has China obtained its leading position in the production of... -
Episode 48: The 2025 international climate agenda
Former US Climate Envoy and Director of Chatham House's Environment and Society Centre join hosts Ruth Townend and Anna Aberg to talk about prospects for climate action in 2025. Following Trump's inauguration, what are the likely consequences for..… -
Episode 47: What happened at COP29? Chaos, climate finance and coughs
Chatham House's Environment and Society Centre reassembles to discuss the outcomes of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, what this means for climate finance and multilateralism, and how Ben’s Christmas jumper sums up the interconnected challenges developed..… -
Episode 46: COP29, Azerbaijan's climate leadership, and prospects for climate action
As COP29 kicks off in Baku, Chatham House's Environment and Society Centre assembles on the airwaves. The team talk Azerbaijan's climate leadership, World Leader vibes, prospects for the conference, and why working on climate change makes you a... -
Climate finance 2: Private finance, polycrisis and positive shocks
Coming fresh from a discussion of how private finance might close the climate finance gap, is joined by , Director of the Resilient Planet Finance Lab at Oxford University, and , professor of finance and economics at Imperial College London. In the.… -
Episode 44: Re-humanising migration: From the geopolitical to the personal, and back again
Migration is top of mind and front of rhetoric in many countries, particularly as elections approach and geopolitical trends of increasing polarisation take hold. is joined by author of ‘’, and by Shelterbox CEO to discuss personal... -
UK elections and climate action: wellspring or washout?
With a UK a general election rapidly approaching, as announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the pouring rain, it seems that the commitment of both main parties to tackling climate change is looking almost as bedraggled as the prime minister... -
Episode 42: Beyond the Energy Transition
is joined by , Deputy Director and , Senior Research Fellow, both of the Chatham House Environment and Society Centre to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the energy transition in key under-attended-to sectors, including non-energy-uses of.… -
Episode 41: Climate finance: “show me the innovative sources”
Climate finance is vital to tackling climate change and decarbonising economies. Past pledges, however, have often failed to deliver, especially for developing countries. In the lead-up to COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, climate finance will be a major... -
Episode 40: We need to talk about… behaviour change
Coming fresh from the Chatham House Energy Transitions Conference, is joined in the studio by IPCC lead author on demand, , , Deputy Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation, and , Principle Advisor and Head of Energy,...
