Heat of the Moment Podcast
1) 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 worker who relocated across the country to take a job i...Show More
2) 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 Global Forest Watch, from 2002 to 2021, Ghana lost...Show More
3) 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 problems that come with it. We first hear from Col...Show More
4) 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 country's nascent lithium mining and electric car indust...Show More
5) 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 the climate crisis, as well. This episode begins ...Show More
6) 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 United Nations climate change summit (or COP26), cou...Show More
7) 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 economic well-being of whole communities into account...Show More
8) 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 so much bigger than that. As we’ll hear throughout...Show More
9) 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 communities around the world as they transition aw...Show More
10) 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. In the Netherlands, they’ve just successfully arg...Show More