I'm Akshath Rati, a senior climate reporter for Bloomberg Green, and on 15th September, I am launching a new podcast called Zero.

Each week, I'll talk with leaders about the tactics and technologies taking us to a world of zero emissions.

My guests include Bill Gates.

The innovation is going way faster than I expected.

That's why I'm optimistic that we will solve this thing.

Canada's first climate minister, Catherine McKenna.

Climate is not just an environmental issue.

It's an economic issue, quite frankly, because, I mean, we're talking about transforming the economy.

Member of the UK's House of Lords, Brian E Worthington.

We created a campaign, which was just saying, we don't have climate laws. We should have climate laws.

I recall radio had made its way to the campaign.

It was wonderful. Tom York rang proactively. He just said, I'm feeling sad about this.

I'm depressed.

I want to know what I can do to help.

So we said, you can help us.

And he helped us launch the campaign.

And author, an environmental campaigner, George Monbeau.

A lot of people say, oh, I'm not eating bacteria.

And I say, well, hang on a moment. First of all, you eat bacteria with every meal. That's right. In fact, worse than that, you're composed to a large extent of bacteria.

You'll also hear stories from my Bloomberg Green colleagues around the world, like Laura

Milan based in Madrid. If you cannot prove that something has been caused by climate change, then how can you get compensated, right?

So this is why data is so important.

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