Wicked Problems - Climate Tech Conversations

By Richard Delevan

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A show about climate and climate tech: the intersection of technology and capital, people and politics, that will shape the future, and whether you'd want to live in it.Host Richard Delevan is normally trapped in the UK, but with a global view - featuring guests from VC/PE, startups, scaleups, corporates, media, and beyond.Subscribe at wickedproblems.earth for an ad-free version, our newsletter, and member-only goodies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Date
Geoengineer Once, Measure Twice
May 17, 2025
Climate "Realism" = Giving Up - Jeremy Wallace
May 15, 2025
Charles Perry: Does South Africa offer a warning against fossil fuel "indoctrination"?
May 13, 2025
State of Climate Tech 2025: Is it over?
May 11, 2025
Tony Blair. Climate Vampire.
May 03, 2025
Is Britain in a climate tailspin?
May 02, 2025
Iberian Blackout: One-off Fiesta or Climate Warning?
May 01, 2025
Survive the Trumpocene: w Dana R Fisher
Apr 16, 2025
Solar Geoengineering: Ozempic or Chemo?
Apr 08, 2025
How to Live in a Chaotic Climate
Apr 06, 2025
Climate Needs an Addiopizzo to Fight Trump Mafia Extortion Tariffs
Apr 04, 2025
Playtime is Over
Mar 28, 2025
Heathrow was a wakeup call: ENODA founder Paul Domjan
Mar 24, 2025
Airport lights are going out all over Europe
Mar 21, 2025
Friendly Fire at Chatham House
Mar 21, 2025
Watch America With the Sound Off
Mar 19, 2025
We have to talk about Adaptation, with Ben Cooke of The Times
Mar 13, 2025
Data Dunkirk for Climate Science
Mar 13, 2025
Make Electricity Cheap Again + BP's Reverse Ferret
Feb 27, 2025
Climate is now a 'Hot War'. Strap In. Buy a Helmet. w/ Joseph Gelfer.
Feb 19, 2025
The Empire Strikes Back: Climate, Fires, Insurance, and Payback, w/ Dave Jones
Feb 13, 2025
SRM & Centering the Global South: Degrees Initiative
Feb 10, 2025
More Apocalypse, Less Optimism - w Dana R. Fisher
Feb 09, 2025
The Mandate of Heaven (And Hell)
Feb 07, 2025
We have to talk about geoengineering. Part 1.
Feb 05, 2025
Elon Musk should be afraid of this researcher.
Feb 03, 2025
Well...all of that...happened.
Jan 31, 2025
The Burden of Being Right: Stephen Markley
Jan 26, 2025
Laurent Segalen: An electric NATO?
Jan 24, 2025
Derailment Risk, Doom Loops, and the End of Pretending
Jan 23, 2025
Whiskey's fer Drinkin; Water's fer Fightin.
Jan 19, 2025
Almost Saved by the Bell
Jan 18, 2025
Trump Energy Nominee in Non-Climate-Psycopath Shocker
Jan 16, 2025
Tadzio Müller Told Us So. Plus Windmills of Shame.
Jan 15, 2025
Climate Litigation's Big 2024 - could 2025 be even bigger?
Jan 06, 2025
The Internet of Energy is Nigh: Alexina Jackson
Dec 30, 2024
100th Episode Special - Christmas Chaos Raccoon
Dec 26, 2024
RepAir's Yehuda Borenstein Has a Cunning Plan for Carbon Removals
Dec 19, 2024
Climate Doom Loop Offramps: ICJ and the CAN Bill
Dec 18, 2024
RePowering: Faster, Better, Stronger w Exus North America CEO Jim Spencer
Dec 16, 2024
The Apocalyptic Optimist: Dana R. Fisher
Dec 12, 2024
Sue the Bastards
Dec 07, 2024
Carbon Emitters on Trial at The Hague
Dec 02, 2024
A Steelman Case for Forest CDR: Lisett Luik, Arbonics
Dec 01, 2024
Big Boy Rules
Nov 22, 2024
COP29, Dubai Ski Hats, and Small Island Fear and Loathing in Baku
Nov 21, 2024
Copium: You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do
Nov 14, 2024
COP29: After the Trump Win
Nov 11, 2024
We Resist
Nov 06, 2024
COP29's Poisoned Chalice? Chatham House's Ruth Townend on Azerbaijan, COP, and Climate Leadership
Nov 01, 2024
Manda Scott: Any Human Power, Fiction, Tech, Climate, and Thrutopia
Oct 31, 2024
Unusual Suspects
Oct 24, 2024
Oil Fought the Law: Standing Rock, BlackRock, and Climate Justice Cases Heating Up
Oct 21, 2024
Keep Climate Tech Weird, Part 2: Trading Places
Oct 18, 2024
Keep Climate Tech Weird, Part 1
Oct 17, 2024
Paris Has Fallen: Rupert Read Strikes Back
Oct 17, 2024
Don't Hate on Climate Week
Oct 16, 2024
Paris Has Fallen: Jim Skea (?)
Oct 12, 2024
The Deluge
Oct 03, 2024
Exclusive Audio: JD Vance's Screwtape Tape
Oct 02, 2024
VP Debate, Tory Leader, and Keeping Schtum on Climate
Oct 01, 2024
Can Democracy survive the collapse of the Gulf Stream?
Sep 30, 2024
Climate Tech's Poldark
Sep 26, 2024
Live at Labour 24
Sep 25, 2024
The Heat and the Fury
Sep 24, 2024
Scream If You Wanna Go Faster
Sep 19, 2024
Can renewables get the UK to clean power by 2030?
Jul 30, 2024
Sustainable Travel? With TripAdvisor's Justin Reid. And Can Kamala Save the IRA?
Jul 22, 2024
Front Row at Trump Assassination Attempt
Jul 15, 2024
How far can solar go? 40% by 2040?
Jul 15, 2024
Can Chris Stark be the Gareth Southgate of UK Climate Tech?
Jul 12, 2024
Tau Carbon Founders: What's Next for CDR?
Jul 10, 2024
About Last Night - Climate and the UK Election Result
Jul 05, 2024
Can Climate Litigation Save Us?
Jul 03, 2024
The Solar Age, with The Economist's Hal Hodson
Jul 01, 2024
The Future of Climate Justice
Jun 28, 2024
ClimateX $18m A round for adaptation; London Climate Week; Political Risk
Jun 26, 2024
Kristian Ruby, Eurelectric: Power to the People
Jun 24, 2024
Battery Belts and Boardroom Battles
Jun 21, 2024
¡UK Election Manifiesta! with E3G's Edward Matthew
Jun 20, 2024
Running Tide is Out; London Climate Week is In
Jun 19, 2024
'Deep' Diligence & Power for the Long Haul
Jun 17, 2024
Climate on the Ballot & Attribution Science Goes to Court
Jun 14, 2024
Tim McDonnell: Covering Climate in Wartime
Jun 12, 2024
David Shukman: Life after the BBC
Jun 10, 2024
Vermont: A New Hope
Jun 09, 2024
World Oceans Day
Jun 08, 2024
Akshat Rathi: Climate Capitalism
Jun 04, 2024
Jenny Chase on Solar, Scifi, Geese, and Michael Liebreich
May 31, 2024
Wil Burns: Responsible Carbon Removals
May 28, 2024
Ernest Scheyder: The War Below
May 24, 2024
Carbon Dioxide Removals: A Mammoth Task
May 22, 2024
Enhancing the Grid: What will it take?
May 21, 2024
ClimateWeek: 17 May 2024
May 17, 2024
Tasmin Lockwood: Who will speak for the trees?
May 16, 2024
Ben & Jerry's vs. Darth Vader, pt 2
May 14, 2024
Ben & Jerry's vs. Darth Vader, pt 1
May 14, 2024
Dr. Anatol Lieven: Can the Nation-State survive climate change?
May 10, 2024
What's the IRR of a sea wall?
May 06, 2024
Rupert Read & Liam Kavanagh: Is there a durable Climate Majority?
Apr 25, 2024
Fear and Loathing in Aberdeen; ECHR Climate Judgment Day; RheEnergize and $4Trillion in Solutions to Data Centres' Problem
Apr 16, 2024
Climate Comedy. It's Science.
Mar 30, 2024
The State of UK Climate Tech
Mar 29, 2024
Business Green's James Murray: Boots, Solar Panels, and a Terry Pratchett Theory of Net Zero Inequality
Mar 20, 2024
Freya Pratty (of FT-backed Sifted): Mission Zero's £22m A round for DAC led by 2150 and more 'buzzy' deals
Mar 18, 2024
MEP Ciarán Cuffe: Decarbonising EU's buildings. Ireland. Climate. COP. 2024.
Mar 16, 2024
Is carbon the new gold?
Mar 13, 2024
🚨SEC's Climate Disclosure Day: Ryan Skinner of Verdantix
Mar 06, 2024
Solitaire Townsend: Stories to Save The World
Feb 27, 2024
Zenobē Co-Founder Steven Meersman: From Costa Coffee to Climate Tech Titan
Feb 25, 2024
Tadzio Mueller: The Case for "Just Collapse"
Feb 18, 2024
TFT's Antony Yousefian: Soil will be the most valuable asset class
Feb 15, 2024
Christmas Bonus Best-of: Fan Fave Michael Barnard
Dec 25, 2023
G, ENSO Tyres CEO: Speaking from the heart
Dec 23, 2023
John Hartley, Levidian CEO: Turning trash gas into treasure
Dec 22, 2023
The Times/Ben Cooke's Christmas Books
Dec 19, 2023
Hannah Scott: Climate Tech Supercluster and Oxfordshire Greentech
Dec 12, 2023
Hitachi Energy CTO Gerhard Salge: Grids in a 3xRenewables World
Dec 08, 2023
Andy Reisinger & Temporary Overshoot: 1.5 is no longer a limit, it's a destination
Dec 07, 2023
Live(ish) from COP28UAE: Al Gore, Solarpunk, and Creativity with Visions2030
Dec 06, 2023
Who framed George Cove and kidnapped the solar future?
Dec 05, 2023
COP28 & RMI's Cara Maesano on Carbon Removal Pathways
Dec 01, 2023
Ulrich Seitz: The Next Big Thing in Climate Tech is Adaptation
Nov 25, 2023
Charlie Mercer: UK Autumn Budget - Jam Tomorrow for Climate Tech?
Nov 24, 2023
Climate Comedy Breakthrough
Nov 22, 2023
BAR Technologies - Decarbonising maritime shipping with sail
Nov 18, 2023
Mark Little: A Climate Newscast from 2050
Nov 15, 2023
The Prize (Cobalt): EVelution Energy's Gil Michel-Garcia
Nov 13, 2023
Climate Capitalism, Optimism, Fatalism, and 1.5C in the rearview
Nov 08, 2023
Susan Joy Hassol: Communications 1.5C in the rearview. Part 2.
Nov 06, 2023
Ketan Joshi: Communications with 1.5C in the rearview. Part 1.
Nov 04, 2023
BusinessGreen Net Zero Festival
Nov 01, 2023
Climate actions that will work. It's a short list. - Ep 5 - Climate Futurist Michael Barnard
Oct 28, 2023
Will new disclosure rules or COP28 have more lasting climate impact?
Oct 24, 2023
Can Carbon Markets Be More Than Hot Air? (BONUS)
Oct 20, 2023
Carbon Removal with UNDO CEO Jim Mann
Oct 19, 2023
Delusion, Expertise, and Humility: Christian Hernandez of 2150 VC
Oct 10, 2023