137. We're Back! Welcome to Season 5
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
How do we know what we’re doing is really helping?
What should we do now that the world is changing?
A slow, intentional beginning to a new year after a racing finish to the last one raises some big questions for all of us in the climate space. This week, Christiana, Tom, and Paul set out the big topics for the year leading up to COP27. Yes, another one.
Shifting long term pledges to short term deliverables. Moving financial institutions from high carbon assets to low carbon assets. Getting the data points that move the needle on reducing emissions on the desks of central governments- Solid, concrete, ambitious NDCs driven by the innovation and flexibility of the private sector is how we will prove ourselves to a Net Zero future.
Listen in to hear how Christiana lays out how our Self-interest, with a capital “S”, is the key to unlocking our true collective potential.
Welcome to Season 5!
Stick around for an intimate and cozy musical performance from Lilo!
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Mentioned links from the episode:
LISTEN: Overthinking IT by Willow (Paul’s recommendation)
WATCH: Joy
READ: The Book of Joy
LISTEN: The Deep Time Walk O+O Episode
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The incredible Lilo is our musical guest this week!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrageant Optimism, I'm Tom Rivick-Karnak. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Cristiana Fierres. |
| 0:17.3 | And I'm Paul DeGunson. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome to Season 5. |
| 0:20.3 | This week, we take a look at the coming year and what it will take to make it a transformative year for climate action. |
| 0:26.8 | Plus, we have music from Lilo. |
| 0:29.2 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:36.4 | Okay, both of you. |
| 0:37.2 | We are back on the podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | We, of course, did a preview of this year, just a couple of days ago with Stefan Harding. |
| 0:42.9 | But today, we're going to talk about the year and what's involved. |
| 0:46.0 | It is great to see you both. |
| 0:47.5 | Paul has been hardly anything of you over the last few weeks. |
| 0:50.2 | It's been the least I've seen you for at least two and a half, three years. |
| 0:53.0 | I've seen more of Cristiana. |
| 0:54.5 | But why don't you kick off and tell us how you're doing? |
| 0:57.6 | Me, personally? |
| 0:58.6 | Yes. |
| 0:59.0 | I am doing, or Cristiana, how she is doing. |
| 1:02.0 | I think it's to you, Paul. |
| 1:03.2 | It's to you, Paul. |
| 1:04.7 | We've both missed you. |
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