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Heat of the Moment
The climate change crisis can feel so formidable, so daunting, that instead of mobilizing people to action, it engenders paralysis. What could we mortals possibly do to prevent the calamity? A fair bit, it turns out. On Heat of the Moment, a 8-part podcast by FP Studios, in partnership with the Clim...
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Building a Life-Giving Economy
On this season’s last episode of Heat of the Moment, we head back to South Africa, where reporter Elna Schutz hears firsthand from a former coal worke...
Why Saving Forests Involves Rethinking Jobs
On this episode, we head to Ghana, a place which is fast losing one of the world’s most vital weapons against the climate crisis, trees. According to...
Seeking Justice in Cancer Alley
This week on Heat of the Moment, we head south to America’s Gulf Coast, an area with a long history of fossil fuel extraction and a number of health p...
Accounting for Unintended Consequences of Going Green
Today we explore the unintended consequences of going green. In the first part of the episode we head to Bolivia where Amy Booth reports on the countr...
Why Indigenous and Local Voices Are Vital to a Just Transition
In part four of our season, we hear how the idea of just transition goes beyond jobs, it’s about protecting communities that are on the front lines of...
COP27 Roundtable: Financing a Just Transition in the Global South
Much of the global south is on the front lines of climate change, and countries are calling on the global north to help fund the fight. At the 2021 Un...
The Importance of Hearing All Voices
A Just Transition has the potential to create millions of new jobs globally if we implement the Paris Agreement in a way that takes the social and eco...
What Does it Really Mean to Just Transition?
The idea of a "just transition" often is associated with coal miners and other fossil fuel workers whose jobs are going away. But it’s a topic that’s...
COMING SOON—Heat of the Moment: A Just Transition
Coming Jan. 18 - Season three of Heat of the Moment: A Just Transition, a podcast from Foreign Policy and the Climate Investment Funds that documents...
Youth Climate Activists Are Suing Big Oil and Winning
Youth-led movements across the globe are getting bigger, louder, and more effective. Now, young people are even taking fossil fuel companies to court....
How Debt Relief Can Help Developing Countries Go Green
This year at COP26 in Glasgow, developing countries were clear: wealthier countries need to do more to help finance the world’s movement away from fos...
The Godmother of Climate Security
The United States military is one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels in the world. What is less known is that when it comes to the climate crisi...
Climate Migrants: Destination Duluth
We are in the midst of one of the greatest moments of human migration in recent history. Wars and unrest in the Middle East, political tensions in Lat...
From Oil Worker to Climate Activist
On this episode we meet former oil worker Allen Hubbard. Hubbard spent most of his professional career as a geologist working on oil rigs in Louisiana...
A Just Transition: How One Town in Wyoming is Moving Away from Coal
Moving away from coal is a top priority in the fight against climate change. But how should local economies, who depend on coal, ensure that workers a...
How A Regenerative Ocean Farmer is Rethinking the Way We Eat
On today's episode of Heat of the Moment, we take a look at one of the most innovative ways we can cut greenhouses from our global food production: ke...
Tinkering with Tuk Tuks: How One Sri Lankan Engineer is Transforming his Community and Local Economy
Converting to electric vehicles is an important part of the quest to eliminate carbon pollution and stabilize the atmosphere. It’s estimated that glob...
What Developing Countries Can Teach the World About Climate Resiliency
While developing countries only make up a small percentage of the world's CO2 emissions, they're often the ones on the front lines dealing with impact...
Paris' Promises and Glasgow's Gutcheck: Assessing the impact of the UN Climate Change Conference
With leaders from across the globe preparing to convene in Glasgow, Scotland for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) Heat of the Moment, begins i...
Heat of the Moment Season 2 - Coming October 21
Coming October 21, 2021: In Season 2 of Heat of the Moment, a podcast from Foreign Policy and the Climate Investment Funds, host John D Sutter talks t...
The Solutions Under Our Noses
There are plenty of people sitting around waiting for some magical new or improved technology to come along and fix the mess we’ve made for ourselves...
Extreme Weather Resilience
All of the weather these days is forming in an atmosphere that humans have warmed on average by about 1 degree Celsius. It’s not that fossil fuel poll...
Why Bold Investments Matter
How much would it cost to fix climate change—and who should pay? Should it be the United States—the biggest polluter historically? Should it be China—...
Adapting to a Drier Planet
Water is our most vital resource, but climate change is making weather patterns and seasonal rainfall less predictable. Now, drought and water scarcit...
Talking Green Without Seeing Red
The dialogue surrounding climate change is often passionate and sometimes contentious, especially when it touches on people’s livelihoods, religion, o...
A New Plan for the Amazon
The Amazon rainforest has been called “the lungs of the planet” as it plays an outsized role in absorbing the Earth’s carbon dioxide output. But indus...
Food 2.0
How food production contributes to climate change and what individuals and the agricultural industry can do to make food production, distribution, and...
The Future of Green Energy
As the world looks to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, there’s hope in the growing renewable energy market. In this episode of Heat of the Moment, D...
How to Make Cities Greener
How rethinking urban design can have a major impact on carbon emissions and the quality of city life.
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When Climate Hits Home
Climate change is forcing people from their homes, especially in island nations. How can the world change its policy toward climate migrants, and what...
What Would Greta Do?
A look into youth climate activism with a focus on the Sunrise Movement in the United States and Marinel Ubaldo, a young activist in the Philippines. ...
How Far We've Come
In our premiere episode, we climb aboard an audio time machine with the reporter Adam Cole to look back at pivotal moments in climate change history. ...
Trailer: Heat of the Moment
It’s easy to quickly feel defeated when confronted with the stark realities of climate change. Heat of the Moment takes listeners beyond the challenge...