Outrage + Optimism Podcast
1) The China Pivot: What will Beijing’s climate leadership look like?
World leaders are flocking to Beijing. In the first weeks of 2026, Canada’s Mark Carney, the UK’s Sir Keir Starmer and South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung have all made high-profile visits - an unmistakable s...Show More
2) Beyond COP: Can Brazil Chart a Path Off Fossil Fuels?
How dependent are we - economically, politically and socially - on fossil fuels? And how do we begin to loosen that grip?As the world reels from geopolitical shocks, multilateral institutions under st...Show More
3) What does Trump’s UNFCCC exit mean for climate diplomacy?
What happens when the world’s most powerful country walks away from the system it helped to build?This week, we examine the United States’ decision to withdraw not only from the Paris Agreement, but f...Show More
4) Venezuela, Fossil Fuels, and the Year Ahead
The year has barely begun, and already the fault lines of global power are on full display.Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac and Paul Dickinson take stock of a moment that feels both shocking and...Show More
5) Beginning the Year With Ancestral Wisdom
As billions around the world mark the beginning of a new year, many are pausing to ask the same questions: what do we carry forward, and what do we leave behind, as we cross from the old into the new?...Show More
6) Why Beauty Matters in the Climate Crisis
At a moment when the world feels noisier, faster, and more demanding than ever, what role can beauty play in helping us slow down, reconnect, and remember what matters?As the year draws to a close, Ch...Show More
7) Follow The Money: Who’s driving climate disinformation?
At the very moment we need clarity and trust, information integrity is being polluted. Disinformation is profitable and the impact on truth is dangerous. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the disco...Show More
8) Paris, 10 Years On - Has it Changed the World?
Ten years ago, a gavel dropped in a conference hall north of Paris. It was the moment the world agreed on a strategic plan for one of the most consequential transformations in human history. But, a de...Show More
9) Jacinda Ardern and… Is It Time to Talk About Geoengineering?
This week, hosts Tom Rivett Carnac and Paul Dickenson delve into the rapidly emerging - and faintly surreal - world of solar geoengineering. Politico journalist Karl Mathiesen joins us to unpack ...Show More
10) Kim Stanley Robinson on Pre Traumatic Imagination and the stories that change us
This week on Outrage + Optimism, we’re taking a breath.After two intense weeks of daily updates from COP30 in Belém, we’re returning to weekly programming with something different - a slower, deeper, ...Show More
Kim Stanley Robinson on Pre Traumatic Imagination and the stories that change us
36:35 | Nov 27th, 2025