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Can a country become 100% organic?
Few countries have specific targets about converting to organic farming, and when they have, it's often failed - Sri Lanka dropped its national organic policy within months in 2021, and only three weeks ago, France scrapped its relatively c
What is commercial forestry getting wrong?
Alasdair speaks to Peter Wohlleben about his new book How Trees Can Save the World. Peter Wohlleben is a forester and author who has written over 30 books on ecology and forest management. Peter and Alasdair discuss the problems with planta
Why is the EU backtracking on green agriculture?
Alasdair speaks to Faustine Bas-Defossez about the relationship between sustainable farming policy and the European farmers' protests. Faustine Bas-Defossez is Director for Nature, Health and Environment at the European Environmental Bureau
How does US agriculture affect climate change?
Alasdair speaks to environmental attorney Peter Lehner about US agriculture's contribution to global emissions. Peter Lehner is the managing attorney of Earthjustice's Sustainable Food and Farming Programme and former executive director of
Can nuclear waste teach us about long-term thinking?
Does our society have an addiction to short term thinking and planning? Is our failure to mitigate climate change a result of this? Vincent Ialenti spent three years doing fieldwork in Finland, interviewing experts working on Posiva's Safet
Are monopolies breaking our food system?
Bertie speaks to Austin Frerick about his new book Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry. Austin Frerick is an agricultural and antitrust policy fellow at Yale University, and has advised on policy for senior U
Why is Eni struggling to grow biofuels in Africa?
Last month an investigation by Transport and Environment (T&E) exposed a number of challenges facing Eni's African biofuel projects. The Italian oil giant's "second generation" biofuel crops have not met production targets in Kenya and Repu
Are Canada's sustainable forestry claims accurate?
Following new allegations (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68381160) from the BBC that a UK power station is "burning wood from some of the world's most precious forests" in British Columbia, Bertie speaks to Richard Robertso
Are fishing laws doing enough for human rights and climate?
As the EU butts heads with the UK (https://www.ft.com/content/458d810c-a9d4-41ef-9ff2-4032571ea0fa) over fishing policy, Bertie speaks to Steve Trent, CEO of the Environmental Justice Foundation, to get a more global overview of fishing reg
What are the risks in storing CO2 underground?
This week, the EU's Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra warned that "You cannot magically CCS yourself out of the problem". But the new policy he was presenting that day still called for 280 million tonnes of carbon dioxide to be permanentl
Are green flights clear for takeoff?
What are the impacts of new flying technologies? Are policymakers and the aviation industry taking the right steps to avoid global warming exceeding 1.5 degrees? Alasdair speaks to Dr Daniel Quiggin, senior research fellow at the Chatham Ho
How does fossil fuel-funded research affect policy?
Bertie speaks to Agathe Bounfour, Oil Investigations Lead at Transport and Environment (https://www.transportenvironment.org), about her investigation into the fossil funded research group CONCAWE. The investigation revealed that CONCAWE un
Are carbon offsets mostly worthless?
In this episode Alasdair caught up with Rachel Rose Jackson, director of climate research and policy at campaign organisation Corporate Accountability (https://corporateaccountability.org) to discuss their new research with the Guardian whi
Europe was going to halve pesticide use - what happened?
2023 was expected to be a big year for Europe in reducing harm from agrochemicals. But in a surprise move in November, European Parliament rejected a law to halve pesticide use. That same month, The European Commission stated it would renew
Can we build a sustainable economy?
Alasdair talks to Sir Dieter Helm, a Professor of Economic Policy at The University of Oxford, about his new book Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy. Cambridge University Press has published the work online as a free open acess ti
What happens when climate adaptation goes wrong?
Bertie speaks to environmental journalist Stephen Robert Miller about his new book, Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature. Spanning Bangladesh, Japan, and Arizona in the US, it covers the risk
Is nuclear needed for net-zero?
Nuclear energy is not renewable, but it is low-carbon. Whether it should be part of the post-fossil fuel power grid is heatedly debated. Bertie took this question to Dr. Paul Dorfman, an Associate Fellow of the University of Sussex's Scienc
Are we now in the century of fire?
Alasdair talks to John Vaillant, author of the Baillie Gifford shortlisted (http://thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk) book Fire Weather: A True Story From A Hotter World (https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/john-vaillant/fire-weather/9781399720212
Has Equinor made Norway dependent on oil?
In a controversial decision this week, the UK government approved development of a huge new oil and gas field in the North Sea. The Rosebank oil and gas field is majority owned by the Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor. Following
Are genetically engineered seeds harming human health?
American agrochemical firm Monsanto was the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds until merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018. Its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are still reshaping f
Has the Africa Climate Summit been “hijacked by foreign interests"?
At the beginning of August, hundreds of NGOs signed a letter to Kenyan President William Ruto, alleging that US and European governments and companies had "seized" the inaugural Africa Climate Summit due to begin in Nairobi on Monday 4th Se
Is biofuel fraud undermining EU climate policy?
A new investigation has revealed that a biofuel company called System Ecologica scammed the International Sustainability Carbon Certification, petrol companies, and EU governments, in a biofuel fraud case totalling tens of millions of euros
Should we mine the deep sea?
Last week, after intense debate between member states, the UN's International Seabed Authority decided not to fast-track licences to start mining the deep ocean floor. But while waters have calmed for now, nothing is set in stone: talks ren
How is EU lobbying blocking climate farming reform?
Copa Cogeca is the largest agricultural lobbying group in Europe, claiming to be "the united voice" of 22 million farmers. But a new investigation from Lighthouse Reports suggests the true size of their membership is far smaller than this -
Does mining bring wealth to Chile, or harm?
Alasdair speaks to Professor Ángela Vergara about the history, economics, and environmental impact of mining in Chile. Ángela Vergara is a member of the history faculty at California State University. Her books include Fighting Unemployment
Is there still a case for hope on climate change?
Joëlle Gergis (@joellegergis (https://twitter.com/joellegergis)) is an award-winning climatologist and writer based at the Australian National University. Her latest book, Humanity's Moment: A Scientist's Case for Hope, is a passionate and
Is overpopulation a climate risk, or dangerous rhetoric?
Following US Climate Envoy John Kerry's latest remarks (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/10-billion-global-population-unsustainable-022016375.html) on overpopulation, Bertie spoke to Diana Ojeda, Associate Professor in sustainability, en
What are the politics behind nuclear energy in France?
Alasdair speaks to Thomas Pellerin Carlin, Director of the EU Programme at the Institute for Climate Economics, about France's relationship with nuclear energy, growing support for legislation focused on sufficiency, and how party politics
Chinese forced labour and renewable supply chains: how big is the problem?
Bertie speaks to Professor Laura Murphy about international supply chains and forced labour in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, where more than a million Uyghur people have been detained in concentration camps. The solar panel industry h
Is the UK losing its leadership status on net zero?
The UK was the first major power to sign net zero into law in 2019, and was once considered a global leader on climate policy. After Brexit and a change of government, is the country failing to live up to its promises? Alasdair speaks to Dr
