Could This Change Your Life?: The Climate Tech Revolution
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
While climate diplomacy grapples with global uncertainty, there’s a quiet revolution happening that may be just as important - thousands of breakthrough technologies and creative applications that are emerging to tackle the climate crisis in new and unexpected ways.
Around the world, figures from business, government and civil society come together at climate weeks to share ideas, showcase solutions, and accelerate action. Ahead of London Climate Action Week, where many of these innovations will be spotlighted, Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson introduce just a few of the many founders and builders reimagining how we grow, produce, work, and live in a world under pressure.
From bio-based foams to paper-based electronic sensors, and from temperature-sensitive food labels to AI water management devices, this episode dives into the materials, data, and design transforming the climate solutions landscape.
While technology alone won’t solve the crisis, can it offer glimpses of what a livable, low-carbon future might look like? And how might it contribute to reshaping the infrastructure, industries, and incentives that underpin our daily lives?
Learn more
🧶 The Future Fabrics Expo, where Evoco and other makers of sustainably and responsibly produced materials will be sharing their work
♻️ Reset Connect, where Watergate, Hurd, Giki and hundreds of other businesses and speakers will be featured
🧪 The Undaunted Innovation Hub, from the programme that has supported PulpaTronics, Mimica and Cyanoskin
📅 The full London Climate Action Week events listings, featuring over 500 events across London and online
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Tom Rivikarnak. I'm Christiana Figueres. |
| 0:06.6 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. This week we look ahead to one of the biggest events in the climate calendar, London Climate Action Week, and we dig into some of the extraordinary innovations that will be showcased in London and beyond. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:21.3 | Okay, friends, so we have a very fun episode for you this week. We're going to be delving |
| 0:25.2 | into some of the most remarkable innovations that we've come across in the course of the last |
| 0:29.2 | few months that we really believe have the opportunity to change the world. We're going to be talking |
| 0:33.0 | about London Climate Action Week, but really this episode is not about London. So keep listening. |
| 0:40.0 | It's about innovation and opportunities all around the world. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, that's so important to be clear about that, to know that what is being discussed here actually is pertinent to the entire global decarbonization process in so many different countries. |
| 0:53.9 | Regular listeners will know, and anyone involved in the climate movement will know that there |
| 0:57.8 | has been a proliferation of climate weeks around the world over the course of the last few years. |
| 1:02.5 | London Climate Action Week is one of the biggest climate weeks around the world. It started, |
| 1:06.2 | of course, in New York. Paul, why don't you quickly tell the story? I think you were on the stage |
| 1:10.0 | on the first ever one, weren't you? I was, but I was also there tell the story? I think you were on the stage on the first ever one, |
| 1:15.4 | weren't you? I was, but I was also there at the very launch, banky moon from the United Nations, |
| 1:19.4 | Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Steve Howard from the Climate Group, who put that together and really managed to combine all the corporations and investors and cities eventually from CDP |
| 1:24.8 | with the Great Nations of the world meeting at the |
| 1:27.6 | United Nations General Assembly. So that was the sort of genius of Climate Week, New York. |
| 1:31.5 | What year was that? And that was 2009 it was launched. But then this idea was sort of copied |
| 1:37.1 | rather brilliantly in London. And London Climate Action Week, a slightly different name, |
| 1:41.8 | has grown to be absolutely enormous and is happening just next week, |
| 1:47.0 | beginning 23rd of June. |
| 1:49.0 | Absolutely. Seventh year now, 45,000 attendees, hundreds of events hosted by businesses, |
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