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In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Gregory Nemet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, about technologies and natural processes that can remove carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere. Nemet discusses efforts in the public and private sectors to deploy new technologies, benefits and costs of different methods of carbon dioxide removal, and the risks and challenges of using carbon dioxide removal to reach global climate goals.

References and recommendations:

“The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal” by Stephen M. Smith, Oliver Geden, Jan C. Minx, and Gregory F. Nemet; https://www.stateofcdr.org/

“Scrubbing the Sky: Inside the Race to Cool the Planet” by Paul McKendrick; https://www.figure1publishing.com/book/scrubbing-the-sky/

“Purple Mountains” film; https://www.purplemountainsfilm.com/

Opportunities and Risks of Scaling Up Carbon Dioxide Removal, with Gregory Nemet

In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Andrew Leach, a professor at the University of Alberta, about the oil and gas industry in Alberta, Canada. Leach discusses how oil and gas are extracted in Alberta’s oil sands region, the environmental liabilities that result from this type of extraction, tensions between provincial and national leaders over environmental policies and emissions-reduction goals, how First Nations participate in the decisionmaking related to energy development, the energy transition, and more.

“The Patch” by Chris Turner; https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Patch/Chris-Turner/9781501115103

“How to Be a Climate Optimist” by Chris Turner; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/668167/how-to-be-a-climate-optimist-by-chris-turner/9780735281974

Energy Transition in Canada’s Oil Sands, with Andrew Leach

In this week’s episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Katie McGinty and Jim Connaughton about how to accelerate the permitting process for clean energy projects. McGinty is vice president and chief sustainability and external relations officer at Johnson Controls, and Connaughton is chair of Nautilus Data Technologies and a member of the board of directors at Resources for the Future. McGinty and Connaughton discuss why project delays are a central challenge in the clean energy transition, how clean energy projects can support environmental justice communities, and the types of permitting reforms that can help deploy funding for clean energy that’s available through recent laws such as the Inflation Reduction Act.

References and recommendations:

“Building Cleaner, Faster: Creating Permitting Systems that Enable Decarbonization Infrastructure Deployment” from the Aspen Institute, by James L. Connaughton, Katie McGinty, Brent Alderfer, Roger Ballentine, Donnel Baird, Dan Esty, Roger Martella, Manisha Patel, Nancy Pfund, Rich Powell, Bill Ritter, Emily Schapira, and Michael Skelly; https://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/building-cleaner-faster-report/

“Termination Shock” by Neal Stephenson; https://www.harpercollins.com/products/termination-shock-neal-stephenson

Princeton faculty member Jesse Jenkins; https://cpree.princeton.edu/people/jesse-jenkins

Donnel Baird and BlocPower; https://www.blocpower.io/

Getting to Yes: Building Cleaner, Faster, with Katie McGinty and Jim Connaughton

In this week’s episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Lara Aleluia Reis, a scientist at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, about the extent of progress that’s been made internationally on climate goals that aim to limit global warming to below 2°C. Reis discusses the significance of the Conference of the Parties meetings in Paris and Glasgow (which were held in 2015 and 2021, respectively), how national climate pledges compare with the goals in the Paris Agreement, and how economic models can incorporate and inform climate policy.

References and recommendations:

“Glasgow to Paris—The impact of the Glasgow commitments for the Paris climate agreement” by Lara Aleluia Reis and Massimo Tavoni; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422300010X

“The Last of Us” television show; https://www.hbo.com/the-last-of-us

“In the Country of Last Things” by Paul Auster; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301190/in-the-country-of-last-things-by-paul-auster/

Progress on Goals of the Paris Agreement: Do Recent Pledges Close the Gap?, with Lara Aleluia Reis

Tipping the scales in the planet’s favour? Most of us are prepared, to some extent, to make alterations in how we live for the sake of the planet, in the hope of preventing further climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. 
But what does 'to some extent' mean? How far are we really willing to go when it comes to making compromises in our daily lives?  
Our journalists in the Euranet Plus network have spoken to people across the EU to find out what their limits are – and to try to understand what would help to overcome them.

The limits to our green commitment | Green deal podcast

We explore how long-held commercial structures like voyage charter and time charter contracts contain features that can get in the way of reducing fuel consumption and emissions in shipping. 

We hear from Nautilus Labs chief executive Matt Heider, Altera Infrastructure chief executive Ingvild Saether, Wallenius Wilhelmsen chief executive Lasse Kristoffersen and Copenhagen Commercial Platform chief executive Christian Bonfils.

Bonus episode: Are contracts the key to unlocking emissions cuts in shipping now?

In this episode, Resources for the Future President and CEO Richard G. Newell sits down with Jigar Shah, the Director of the Loan Programs Office at the US Department of Energy, to discuss the federal loans that will go toward financing ambitious energy projects and accelerating the clean energy transition. Their conversation took place on June 20.

The Policy Leadership Series (PLS) Podcast features leading global decisionmakers who discuss big environmental and energy policy issues. The PLS Podcast is produced by Resources for the Future.

Find video recordings of PLS events at rff.org/pls and receive updates about Resources for the Future events and podcasts by visiting rff.org/subscribe.

Financing the Energy Transition: RFF’s Policy Leadership Series with Jigar Shah

Regenerative practices have become a new area of focus in production Agriculture. But what about our grazing lands — are we managing those lands for healthier soil, a healthier environment AND a healthier bottom line? Hugh Aljoe and Jim Johnson with Noble Research Institute, an Oklahoma-based ranch and research entity operating on 14,000 acres, join Damian. They discuss the important role grazing land plays in American Ag and methods by which to improve soil, environment, and our balance sheet. With almost double the number of acres in grass and rangeland as there are in crops, proper management can boost beef production while more than offsetting the greenhouse gases released by all of production Agriculture.

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308 - Regenerative Ranching — For Environment AND Economics

In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Eric Kort, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, about methane emissions from the US oil and gas industry. Kort discusses the emissions that occur during the extraction of oil and gas at onshore and offshore facilities, aerial methods of measuring these emissions and identifying methane leaks, and the increasing concentration of methane in the atmosphere.

References and recommendations:

“Excess methane emissions from shallow water platforms elevate the carbon intensity of US Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production” by Alan M. Gorchov Negron, Eric A. Kort, Yuanlei Chen, Adam R. Brandt, Mackenzie L. Smith, Genevieve Plant, Alana K. Ayasse, Stefan Schwietzke, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, Catherine Hausman, and Ángel F. Adames-Corraliza; https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215275120

“Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth” by Oliver Jeffers; https://www.oliverjeffers.com/here-we-are

How Leaky is the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry?, with Eric Kort

Download and view lyrics on BandCamp
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Video:
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How to compose a song about climate change anxiety?

This song is about a woman who psychologically embodies GAIA and feels the earth dying. The Suits (business men and politician) have lied to her and offer little fixes (THERAPY) to make her feel better. The White Suits (scientists) have argued about climate change with only a handful willing to say we passed the tipping point, and there's no turning back. They offer her more therapy saying the earth will heal with new technology and innovations. All she can do is hide inside of herself to escape their world.

Let's hope the younger generation will not accept the Suits and the White Suit's therapy. Young activists are our only hope to heal the earth. Our generation accepted their therapy while knowingly and unknowingly, we allowed the earth to die.

It's Like Coffee

Therapy's Not Working

In this week’s episode, host Daniel Rami talks with Jeffrey Rissman, a senior director at Energy Innovation and the author of “Zero-Carbon Industry,” a new book about decarbonizing the global industrial sector. Rissman discusses the sources of greenhouse gas emissions in major subsectors—iron and steel, chemicals, and cement—and some technologies and policies that could help reduce or eliminate emissions from these subsectors.

References and recommendations:

“Zero-Carbon Industry: Transformative Technologies and Policies to Achieve Sustainable Prosperity” by Jeffrey Rissman; https://zerocarbonindustry.com/

“Daybreak” board game; https://www.daybreakgame.org/

Decarbonizing the Industrial Sector, with Jeffrey Rissman

A Man Was Indicted for Smuggling Greenhouse Gases. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report.

Headlines:

The seven states negotiating water use on the Colorado River hope the impasse will pass.

Coral reefs that have been degraded by human activity and climate change can be restored fast—in just four years.

A man was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border last week on suspicion of smuggling, not drugs or weapons, but greenhouse gases.

Springing forward to Daylight Saving Time bug you? Blame a guy who was looking for bugs.

This Week in Water for March 10, 2024

In this week’s episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with James Cox, a professor at Duke University, about a rule issued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that mandates publicly traded firms to disclose certain greenhouse gas emissions associated with business operations. Cox discusses how the rule standardizes the disclosures of certain climate-related risks that firms face, the differences between the final rule and the initial rule proposed by the commission in 2022, the potential challenges of verifying emissions from a company’s suppliers and customers, and the value of transparency and information for investors.

References and recommendations:

“Special Series: The SEC Climate Disclosure Rule” from the “Common Resources” blog; https://www.resources.org/special-series-sec/

What’s in the Final SEC Climate Disclosure Rule?, with James Cox

The Benefits of Noisy Neighborhoods. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Headlines:

Two men are going to prison for tampering with rain gauges to get crop insurance payments.

Drought causes the release of greenhouse gases, new study shows.

Sounds that to us might resemble sizzling bacon or the grunts of pigs are pitch perfect for restoring these degraded habitats.

Snakes—the new, high-protein superfood.

This Week in Water for March 17, 2024

In this week’s episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Fernando Vidal, a postdoctoral researcher at the Polymat research institute in Spain, about technological and policy options to create a more sustainable plastics economy. Vidal discusses the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the life cycle of plastics, changes to the chemical makeup and recycling of plastics that could reduce the impact of plastics on communities and the environment, and international efforts to reduce the negative impacts of the plastics economy. Vidal shares recommendations for a more sustainable plastics economy from an article that he coauthored, which recently was published in the journal “Nature.”

References and recommendations:

“Designing a circular carbon and plastics economy for a sustainable future” by Fernando Vidal, Eva R. van der Marel, Ryan W. F. Kerr, Caitlin McElroy, Nadia Schroeder, Celia Mitchell, Gloria Rosetto, Thomas T. D. Chen, Richard M. Bailey, Cameron Hepburn, Catherine Redgwell, and Charlotte K. Williams; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06939-z

“Nudes in Nature” photography exhibit by Laura Aguilar at the Phoenix Art Museum; https://phxart.org/exhibition/laura-aguilar/

Photographer Laura Aguilar; https://www.lauraaguilarphotography.com/

Toward a More Sustainable Plastics Economy, with Fernando Vidal

Green Seas is the podcast on the environment and the business of the ocean. Join TradeWinds reporters Eric Priante Martin and Craig Eason as they explore topics of sustainability in the maritime sector as ocean industries face pressure to clean up their act.

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Damian travels all over the globe talking to audiences about trends in the business of food, fuel, and fiber. With his clever wit and down-to-earth delivery, he has turned these topics into an interesting (and sometimes controversial) podcast.

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Producing and broadcasting in 15 official EU languages, Euranet Plus broadcasts EU related content through its international, national and regional radios in 15 EU states of the European Union.

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