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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 to the people tackling climate change – a venture capitalist hunting for the best cleantech investment, scientists starting companies, politicians who have successfully created climate laws, and CEOs who have completely transformed their businesses. The road to zero emissions has many paths and everyone’s got an opinion about the best route. Listen in.
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- The big questions over European electrification · 33 min · Avsnitt 205Europe has been in a state of energy crisis ever since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Prices are high, industry is struggling and the world feels increasingly…
- First cars, now trains: Batteries are coming for everything · 29 min · Avsnitt 204The UK was once a pioneer of rail technology. Now, it has one of the worst electrification rates in the world and relies heavily on diesel for long-distance trains…
- A historic El Niño is coming that could cost the world trillions: Odd Lots · 56 minZero is on a break this week, so we’re bringing you an episode from Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast. Hosts Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal speak with Justin Mankin, professor of…
- Tasmania’s electric shipping bet: Bloomberg Australia · 18 minZero is on a break this week, so we’re bringing you an episode from the Bloomberg Australia podcast. A shipyard in Tasmania has delivered the world’s largest electric ship, a…
- Inside the little-known world of China's clean tech startups · 35 min · Avsnitt 203China is a hotbed of innovation, filling nearly half of the world’s new patents every year. Much of that work is in the world of clean tech and a whole ecosystem is growing to…
- UK energy secretary on net zero and cheaper power: live from New York · 21 minMiatta Fahnbulleh, the UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, discusses the country's energy transition, the push for affordable and secure power and the UK’s…
- How to build an electrostate · 40 min · Avsnitt 202How to make electricity cheap is a question that’s bedeviling policy makers around the world, particularly in the US and Europe. Some countries, however, have figured it out…
- Inside China’s $7 trillion green finance market · 37 min · Avsnitt 201When it comes to green tech, China is a list of superlatives. It produces more solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries than anywhere else in the world. But…
- Free Solo climber Alex Honnold's next mission: solar for everyone · 34 min · Avsnitt 200Climber Alex Honnold is best known as the star of Free Solo, an Oscar-winning documentary that followed his rope-free ascent of the 3,000-foot (1,000-meter) face of Yosemite’s El…
- Do-it-yourself energy traders are gaming the grid: Big Take · 17 minEnergy consumers are used to a pretty simple transaction with utility companies: get electricity to power your home, pay up every month. Now, more consumers are stockpiling their…
- Nepal disaster shows how mountains are becoming less stable · 29 min · Avsnitt 199On the morning of August 26, a glacial collapse in the Himalayas triggered a flash flood that sent ice, mud, rocks and fast-moving water through a valley in Nepal, wiping out…
- How to fix our vulnerable food system · 41 min · Avsnitt 198Extreme weather events this year are starting to hurt food production in serious ways, which is likely to push up everyone’s food prices. That’s before the weather-wrecking super…
- More than AI, this century’s growth story is climate action · 43 min · Avsnitt 197It’s 20 years since the Stern Review declared that the costs of inaction on climate change are much higher than the costs of action. So why are emissions continuing to rise? Lord…
- When climate change threatens national security · 37 min · Avsnitt 196The impacts of climate change are becoming not just unignorable, but unbearable. Yet the political consensus around climate action is fracturing, as leaders debate the speed and…
- The Iran war revealed that China has a new energy weapon · 43 min · Avsnitt 195The Middle East conflict is now in its fifth month, deepening the oil and gas supply shock. Early in the war, analysts worried that the oil price would rise to $200 a barrel…
- When AI and climate anxieties collide to make beautiful stories: Imagine Series · 36 min · Avsnitt 194How should we navigate a world in which anxieties about AI, climate change and capitalism collide? This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi speaks with Helen Phillips, author of Hum and…
- Bloomberg Australia: Lessons from the world's cleanest air · 15 minOn a windswept cliff at the edge of Tasmania, scientists are quietly tracking the future of our planet. This week, host Rebecca Jones speaks with David Stringer, managing editor…
- Ditching net zero to win the climate argument · 40 min · Avsnitt 193Andy Burnham has become the UK’s sixth prime minister in just 10 years. When it comes to energy and climate, Labour Party’s Burnham will inherit many of the same challenges of…
- The selfish case for supporting foreign aid · 32 min · Avsnitt 192Hundreds of millions of people around the world have no access to reliable electricity, a problem that doesn’t seem to be going away. Since US President Donald Trump started his…
- Is the world prepared for the 'super' El Niño? · 34 min · Avsnitt 191The great famine of the 1870s killed 50 million people – and El Niño was a key driver. Another El Niño phase has just begun and it’s expected to be among the strongest. There are…
