LA fires and the top climate stories to watch in 2025
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The devastating fires in LA have dominated the headlines in a dramatic start to 2025. Christiana Figueres,Tom Rivett-Carnac and Paul Dickinson discuss their link with climate, as the newly-released Copernicus report confirms the world has exceeded 1.5 degrees of warming.
And, in the year that marks halfway in the decisive decade for world emissions, our hosts are here with your definitive guide to the biggest climate moments coming up in 2025.
What solutions will technology, AI and business people bring forward this year? What are the key meeting points and dates for the climate community? And just how did Tom and Christiana go from watching Costa Rica in the football World Cup in a pub in New York to delivering the history-making Paris climate talks?
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Producer: Nina Pullman
Video Producer: Caitlin Hanrahan
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to outrage and optimism. I'm Tom Riffick-Karnak. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello and welcome to 2025. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Cristiana Figueres. And I'm Paul Dickinson in 2025. |
| 0:12.0 | We are starting 2025 and today we are taking a look at a crucial year to come. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:21.3 | So friends, this is very exciting 2025. |
| 0:23.7 | We're back. |
| 0:24.3 | We're kicking off a new season of Outrational Optimism and What's More. |
| 0:27.1 | We're in person, which is very rare for us. |
| 0:29.1 | It's so nice to see you both. |
| 0:30.7 | So we are very lucky to be in Costa Rica at Christiana's home, |
| 0:33.8 | where we come every now and then to do a retreat and get work done and record podcasts |
| 0:37.9 | and we've been here for a few days and we're just kicking off our recordings so it's lovely |
| 0:41.5 | to be here in glorious Costa Rica. We're also with our new production team which is very exciting. |
| 0:47.0 | So Ellie and Caitlin here I should reveal to Ellie at this point that the way Paul remembers her name |
| 0:51.2 | is by the acronym Extinction Level Event which is one of the acronyms that we use inside climate change. |
| 0:56.2 | But other than that, it's lovely to be here with the new production team. |
| 0:58.7 | And we're going to kick off and look at the year and talk a bit about what's been going on. |
| 1:01.7 | I first want to hear a little bit about you too and what you've been up to in the break. |
| 1:05.0 | But before that, we cannot start without mentioning the terrible fires that are unfolding as we speak in California. |
| 1:13.9 | The fires that are taking place in Palisades and in Eden and across Los Angeles, |
| 1:18.7 | just the devastating loss of life, loss of property. |
| 1:22.1 | It has been astonishing looking at these images. |
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