Galvanize's Tom Steyer: "We're winning the climate fight"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The climate fight is going far better than you realise. So says this week’s guest, Tom Steyer, former presidential candidate and founder of Galvanize Climate Solutions. He comes on to talk with Sunday Times correspondent Danny Fortson about why doomerism doesn’t work (4:30), beating Big Oil (8:45), when theory meets reality (15:10), whether the climate argument has been won (21:30), his life before dedicating his career to climate (30:20), dabbling in politics (36:30), running a climate investment firm (41:00), running for president (44:00), and the possibility that the oil industry will transform (51:10).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:02.9	What is it all about?
0:04.5	So I go up there, loved it.
0:05.8	Had an amazing summer, loved it.
0:08.1	2006, Kat and I took the kids up to Alaska to show them that.
0:12.4	So 25 years later.
0:15.0	Yeah.
0:15.7	And it was melting.
0:17.4	And we're all like, oh my God.
0:19.8	Right.
0:20.9	Oh, my God.
0:22.1	Because it's like one thing to read about it.
0:25.0	But then I got up there and I was like, oh, my God.
0:27.8	This is amazing.
0:29.3	This is global size change in real time and obvious.
0:37.5	So we went back, sat around the kitchen table as a family and were like, okay, is this it?
0:43.4	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
1:00.9	I'm your host, Danny Fordson. And this week we have on the program Tom Steyer, who you may have heard of because in 2020 he ran for president of these United States.
1:14.8	He is a billionaire investor.
1:17.1	He's been very successful, obviously.
1:18.7	And years ago, he stepped away from the firm he founded to start a new one dedicated solely to investing in the climate transition.
1:26.4	From startups to real estate to public companies, that company is called galvanize climate
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