Your questions answered: Is Donald Trump a climate warrior in disguise?

Zero: The Climate Race

Bloomberg

Technology, Business, Science

4.7 • 219 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week, we hear from you. Bloomberg Green’s Akshat Rathi answers questions from Zero listeners: Can a decline in trade help fight climate change? How do we tell if corporations are greenwashing or not? And are we about to enter a new era of global collaboration when it comes to green tech? If you have a question for the show, send us a voice note or message to [email protected].

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0:31.3	Welcome to Zero. I am Akshatrati. This week, we hear from you.
0:48.0	Yeah. This week, we hear from you. A few weeks we put out a call to our listeners for questions.
0:50.9	Thank you to everyone who send them in.
0:53.7	We got a great response
0:54.7	and in this episode we will try to answer as many of them as we can. To help me do that,
1:00.9	we've got Bloomberg Senior Africa reporter Yinka Ibekon and Zeros producer Oscar Boyd. Welcome back to Zero,
1:07.1	Yinka and Oscar. Thanks for having us. Thank you. So our first question comes from
1:12.3	Beatt Koch from Switzerland and he asks, I was wondering if in the end the tariff politics of
1:19.4	Donald Trump might help the environment and reduce CO2 emissions. If international trade
1:25.6	falls significantly, CO2 emissions will go down, which is what we want
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