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Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

195. A Better Future Emerging

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

Persephonica

Green, Business, Climate, Current Affairs, Finance, Society, Society & Culture, Policy, Environment, Science, Energy, News, Planet

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

With Tom away this week, tune in to hear Christiana Figueres and Paul Dickinson discuss announcements from the World Bank, the spring G7 meeting in Japan and Paul’s mini scoop into the issue of UK internal flights, as well as their fantastic interview with celebrated author  Jon Alexander and his widely acclaimed book: “Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us”

We are also excited to share details of how you can join Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, Fiona McRaith and Paul Dickinson for a live online Q&A recording of Outrage + Optimism on Wednesday 19, 2023 @ 4.30pm BST / 11.30am EST. During this live Q&A session we will be taking questions resulting from Tom and Fiona’s mini series: Momentum vs Perfection. Please follow this link to register your place.

We will be taking a short break next week so please take time to revisit the mini-series here.

And we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Wednesday 19 April!

 

Enjoy the episode! 

NOTES AND RESOURCES 

 

O+O Live Q&A: Join Us - April 19, 2023 @ 4.30pm BST / 11.30am EST 

 

Register to join us for our live online Q&A episode of Outrage + Optimism and put your question to our hosts, please click on this link and follow the instructions. 

 

Rachel Kyte article mentioned by Christiana here

 

Jon Alexander

Twitter | LinkedIn

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MUSIC

 

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Be sure to spin and buy their latest record ‘Right On’!

 

To learn more about our planet’s climate emergency and how you can transform outrage into optimistic action subscribe to the podcast here.

Learn more about the Paris Agreement.

 

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Paul Dickinson and I'm Cristiana Villedis.

0:18.3

And while Tom takes a well-earned break, Cristiana and I invite you to join us for a live

0:23.2

interactive recording of the podcast in April. We're going to take a look at the recent

0:27.2

climate policy announcements in the UK and also worldwide, and we're also going to speak

0:31.3

with John Alexander, the celebrated author of the book Citizens. And we have music straight

0:36.5

out of Nashville, from Banditos. Thanks for joining us.

0:46.9

So listeners, as you might remember from last week's episode, we spoke about how great

0:51.3

it would be to actually host a live recording of the podcast, following the overwhelming

0:55.9

response we received after we aired Tom's mini-series Momentum vs. Perfection. So we are

1:02.5

very excited to announce that this is going to happen. There's going to be an Outrage and

1:06.7

Optimism live event, and it's going to be taking place on Wednesday, the 19th of April,

1:12.4

at 4.30pm UK time, or British summertime, at 11.30am Eastern time. 4.30pm British

1:20.0

summertime, 11.30am Eastern time on Wednesday, the 19th of April. Please join Cristiana, Tom

1:26.9

Fiona from Tom's podcast and myself to take part in a live discussion of some of the things

1:32.1

that came up from Tom's Momentum vs. Perfection mini-series. We'd love to hear your questions

1:37.9

and all details in the show notes, but here is Clay to briefly let you know how to register

1:42.9

for free for our live recording and how to let us know your advanced questions.

1:47.5

Thanks Paul. So listeners, it's very simple. Just go to the show notes right below this episode.

1:52.5

There's a link there to go straight to our website where you can register for the event

1:56.8

and save your spot. Once you save your spot, you'll get an email that will have a link to a

2:04.3

voicemail inbox. And if you have a question for our hosts that you want to ask during the live

2:09.5

recording, you can go and record that question right there. It's like this online recording software.

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