Chatham House’s Duncan Brack on the huge emissions from burning US wood overseas
ELCI editor Edward Robinson speaks to Duncan Brack, Associate Fellow at Chatham House and author of numerous reports into industrial-scale biomass and forestry policy.
Edward Struzik on the urgent need to restore our peatlands
ELCI Assistant Editor Bertie Harrison-Broninski takes over the pod to talk with veteran climate journalist Edward Struzik about his new book, Swamplands: tundra beavers, quaking bogs, and the improbable world of peat. They talk COP, burning peat for energy, the process of rewetting peatland, and Edward gives a cultural & historical background to bogs, fens & marshes.
Is Drax UK’s single biggest CO2 emitter? Think-tank Ember give us the answer
Alasdair from ELCI talks to Phil MacDonald, Chief Operating Officer of think-tank Ember, about the the energy think-tank’s latest analysis which places Drax as the UK’s single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the UK and among the top 5 emitters in Europe.
Lina Burnelius on Sweden’s forestry model
In this episode Alasdair MacEwen talks to Lina Burnelius of Protect the Forest Sweden about the Swedish forestry model and the threat that industry poses to biodiversity and the survival of ancient Forests.
What is BECCS and what does it mean for climate policy?
In this episode, Alasdair speaks to Dr Dan Quiggin, Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House currently researching the implications of using Bioenergy with Capture and Storage or BECCS.
How are preparations for COP26 going?
Gareth Redmond-King talks about the preparations for the next climate talks. He explains the UK’s role as a climate leader, recent odd missteps leading to the talks and his take on existing progress.
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.
Sasha Stashwick on Biden and climate change
Edward and Alasdair speak to Sasha Stashwick, climate expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), on how the Biden Administration is gearing up to tackle climate change and issues with the use of biomass for tackling climate goals.
Mike Norton on “transformative change” and science policy
Prof Michael Norton speaks about the need to understand what ‘transformative change’ actually is, the gap between science and policy urgency on environmental boundaries and on the flawed concept of GDP.
Doug Parr on climate change policymaking
Doug Parr speaks about how British climate policy has changed and what might happen after the pandemic and greenhouse gas removal technologies, what ‘negative emissions’ are and the risks of rising ‘institutional greenwash’ in climate policy and business.
