Switched On Podcast
1) How Smart Chips Are Rewiring the Car Market
As vehicles become increasingly intelligent and connected, the chips powering them are transforming the automotive industry. Traditional supply chains are giving way to new partnerships, and advanced ...Show More
2) Adaptation and Resilience: A New Investment Imperative
How well prepared are we for a warming world? Climate adaptation is quickly moving from theory to strategy, reshaping investment priorities and exposing new risks and opportunities. On this bonus epis...Show More
3) Ranking Resilience: Economies Adapting to Climate Risk
Climate is reshaping the global economy. Losses from major weather events are now estimated at $1.4 trillion each year, and as the damaged assets, disrupted supply chains and declines in productivity ...Show More
4) Heavy Duty, Low Carbon: How Trucks Are Going Electric
The 85 million medium- and heavy-duty trucks on the road last year were responsible for nearly a 10th of global emissions, and an array of technologies and business models are in trial as a way to cut...Show More
5) The Hydrogen Hurdle: Costs, Policy and Progress
Hydrogen was once the golden child of the energy transition. Yet high costs and limited policy support proved high hurdles for the technology’s progress, global deployment has fallen well short ...Show More
6) COP30 Countdown: Ambition, Politics, Reality
In a few days’ time, world leaders will gather in Brazil for the COP30 climate conference. It’s been 10 years since the Paris Agreement laid out ambitions for a net-zero future, yet moment...Show More
7) Capital Clash: Clean Energy vs Fossil Fuel Finance
Global energy investment is entering a period of realignment. Tariffs, inflation and geopolitical tensions have disrupted financial models, while a backlash against ESG along with renewed fossil fuel ...Show More
8) The Business of Breathing Life Into Old Wind Turbines
The first generation of wind turbines is now approaching retirement. Developers across Europe, the US and China thus find themselves at a crossroads: should they refurbish and extend the life of exist...Show More
9) Deep Freeze Risk Raises Stakes for Europe’s Gas Supply
Winter is coming, and with it a rise in demand for natural gas. With growing liquified natural gas exports from the US now crossing the Atlantic and filling European storage, the continent looks to be...Show More
10) Wired for the Future: Reinventing the US Power Grid
The US power grid is under mounting strain from aging infrastructure, slow interconnections and regional bottlenecks, while demand, complexity and variability are on the rise. Building a future-ready ...Show More