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Zero: The Climate Race
Zero: The Climate Race
Bloomberg

Zero is about the tactics and technologies taking us to a world of zero emissions. Each week Bloomberg’s award-winning reporter Akshat Rathi talks... more

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Episodes

The slow and painful recovery of the wind industry

Denmark’s Vestas has been making wind turbines exclusively since 1989 — well before the notion of an energy transition was... more

25 Apr 2024 · 35 minutes
How ‘energy islands’ can supercharge offshore wind

If you've paid much attention to the wind industry lately, the news isn’t great. Building new projects is getting more... more

18 Apr 2024 · 32 minutes
How to cut industrial emissions and dodge the valley of death

Clean energy technologies saw a record influx of investment last year: $1.7 trillion in total. But that still falls short... more

11 Apr 2024 · 30 minutes
The climate watchdog holding the UK government to account

When the UK’s Climate Change Committee was formed in 2008, it both signaled the country’s seriousness about its environmental goals... more

04 Apr 2024 · 34 minutes
A legally binding treaty to fight the plastic problem

The plastic problem is everywhere: in our oceans, communities, even inside our bodies. Plastic is abundant and very cheap, and... more

28 Mar 2024 · 25 minutes
Listen Now: The Big Take

The Big Take from Bloomberg News brings you inside what’s shaping the world's economies with the smartest and most informed... more

26 Mar 2024 · 1 minute
Making renewables a profitable bet… everywhere

When Brookfield Asset Management launched a $15 billion fund to expand clean energy in 2021, it was the largest private... more

21 Mar 2024 · 36 minutes
Climate change can't overcome capitalism, and that's OK

It is now cheaper to save the world than destroy it. But is capitalism up to the challenge of preventing... more

12 Mar 2024 · 30 minutes
John Kerry, the Forrest Gump of climate, bows out

John Kerry is the Forrest Gump of climate. The guy you’ll find at every important turn in history doing something... more

04 Mar 2024 · 30 minutes
Introducing: The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly

The Deal, hosted by Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly, features intimate conversations with business titans, sports champions and game-changing entrepreneurs... more

29 Feb 2024 · 1 minute
What Donald Trump’s return means for US climate ambition

Tom Steyer is a hedge-fund billionaire who made his money investing in distressed assets, including fossil fuel projects. He’s also an... more

18 Jan 2024 · 30 minutes
Best of: How climate reached the world's elite in Davos

This January, Davos will once again host the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting and bring together the world's business and... more

11 Jan 2024 · 34 minutes
Our favorite climate numbers #3

Are fossil fuel companies needed in a clean energy future? Is the UK really backsliding on climate progress? And how... more

28 Dec 2023 · 17 minutes
Check out: Drilled

Today we're sharing an episode from another climate podcast that you might like, Drilled. Zero’s host Akshat Rathi was a... more

26 Dec 2023 · 38 minutes
Check out: The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast

Today we’re sharing an episode from another climate podcast that you might like. It’s The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast from KCRW.... more

19 Dec 2023 · 11 minutes
Introducing: Bloomberg News Now

Bloomberg News Now is a comprehensive audio report on today's top stories. Listen for the latest news, whenever you want... more

18 Dec 2023 ·
Is COP28 the beginning of the end for the fossil fuel era?

COP28 comes to a close. 200 countries came together, 100,000 people flew in, and what did they produce? A piece... more

13 Dec 2023 · 21 minutes
'Hey, nice sea wall': Finding trillions for adaptation

Four billion people live in countries where climate change-related disasters are becoming more severe and frequent. Spending money to adapt,... more

11 Dec 2023 · 30 minutes
Al Gore plans to break the petrostate stranglehold on climate progress

Former US Vice President Al Gore has been going to COP summits since the beginning. But he’s much more than... more

06 Dec 2023 · 44 minutes
How to triple renewables by 2030

Tripling renewables is one of the goals the COP28 discussions are circling around. It sounds good, but what will meeting... more

04 Dec 2023 · 26 minutes
Outrage and optimism in oil country

Today is the start of COP28. And for the next two weeks, Zero will be in the United Arab Emirates,... more

29 Nov 2023 · 30 minutes
Best of: We need trillions to fix the climate. Finally there’s a serious plan.

Trillions of dollars are needed to shift the world to a low-carbon future, but where will all that money come... more

27 Nov 2023 · 44 minutes
Can an oil exec successfully lead COP28?

The UN Climate Conference COP28 starts next week. Before Akshat heads to the conference he’s joined by Aaron Rutkoff, the... more

23 Nov 2023 · 27 minutes
How China left the world far behind in the battery race

By 2025, China’s battery production capacity will be three times as much as the rest of the world combined. Why... more

20 Nov 2023 · 12 minutes
Carbon removal’s magic number

If reducing emissions from industry is the first step for carbon capture, then drawing down excess CO2 to reverse climate... more

16 Nov 2023 · 27 minutes
Europe’s top industrialist takes on green batteries

You may not know Jim Hagemann Snabe by name, but he has been called Europe’s top industrialist. Snabe has held... more

14 Nov 2023 · 23 minutes
Introducing: Elon, Inc.

At Bloomberg, we’re always talking about the biggest business stories, and no one is bigger than Elon Musk. In this new... more

10 Nov 2023 ·
Big promise, little success: The state of carbon capture

The U.S. is spending billions on carbon capture as a climate solution, but is it realistic? The method has been... more

09 Nov 2023 · 34 minutes
The loudest champion of the climate vulnerable

Saleemul Huq was a pre-eminent climate scientist and champion for developing countries. For many years, he was a lone warrior... more

02 Nov 2023 · 31 minutes
Best of: How the ‘rich man’s energy club’ became a climate champion

This week, the International Energy Agency published its flagship report: The World Energy Outlook. It's hundreds of pages long and... more

26 Oct 2023 · 35 minutes
The EV revolution isn’t just on four wheels

Cars are only half the electric vehicle story. There are also billions of two and three wheelers that need to... more

22 Oct 2023 · 12 minutes
Peak oil is here. Well, maybe.

Peak oil is here, or is it? Depends on how you measure, but at least one person is sure crude... more

19 Oct 2023 · 39 minutes
Can climate capitalism work?

It is now cheaper to save the world than destroy it. But is capitalism up to the challenge of preventing... more

12 Oct 2023 · 30 minutes
It's done. The future is electric cars.

The rise of electric cars is staggering. In 2016, just 700,000 electric cars were sold worldwide, this year it’ll be... more

05 Oct 2023 · 33 minutes
How to keep fossil fuels in the ground, from the boardroom

Brynn O’Brien not only reads corporate climate plans, she crunches the numbers. When they don’t add up, she calls her... more

28 Sep 2023 · 34 minutes
Our favorite climate numbers #2

Are two wheels better than four? Can cutting commuting cap carbon consumption? And where’s all the clean energy coming from?... more

25 Sep 2023 · 22 minutes
The godfather of solar predicts its future

Setting world records. Combing through warehouses of old electronics. Seeding the Chinese solar industry from afar. This is the life... more

21 Sep 2023 · 29 minutes
Perfume? Yes. Potatoes? No. Vertical farming tries to grow up

Cleantech is hard. Farming is harder. This week, Akshat Rathi visits entrepreneurs doing both.  GroGrace in Singapore and Jungle in Paris... more

14 Sep 2023 · 32 minutes
How the world’s biggest green bank is electrifying Australia

Trillions of dollars are needed to fund the climate transition, with both the private sector and governments required to contribute.... more

07 Sep 2023 · 31 minutes
Your carbon footprint should bring you joy

The concept of a “carbon footprint” began as a distraction from Big Oil: get people to focus on their own... more

31 Aug 2023 · 34 minutes
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The concept of a “carbon footprint” began as a distraction from Big Oil: get people to focus on their own actions rather... more