Climatrends Podcast
1) The Financial Risk & Climate Change Connection
How do we apply the principles of financial risk management to the challenge of climate change? In this episode, we connect the worlds of climate and finance with renowned economist Dr. Bob Litterman.
2) The Need for Forward-looking Government & Corporate Policy - Dr. Andrew Dessler
How do we thread the needle with smart policy that avoids a worst-case warming scenario? What responsibilities do businesses have to go from talk to real climate action? In this episode, Dr. Andrew De...Show More
The Need for Forward-looking Government & Corporate Policy - Dr. Andrew Dessler
26:20 | Sep 22nd, 2021
3) Episode 9 - Bridging the Gap Between Scientists and Decision Makers
The process of creating evidence-based, actionable solutions to climate change is a science all its own. How can climate science be made more useful for decision makers? In this Episode: A discussio...Show More
4) Episode 8: Dr. Zeke Hausfather
EPISODE 8: Thinking Big. How Government and Markets Can Work Together on Climate Solutions. Climate change is a complicated web of science, politics, technology, economy, and controversy. Where do we ...Show More
5) An Inconvenient Truth: Dr. Michael Mann
More than two decades ago, Dr. Michael Mann and his colleagues published the iconic “hockey stick” graph--an estimate of how temperatures varied over the past thousand years. The truth, as it turns ou...Show More
6) Anticipating Climate Risks - Dr. Kevin Trenberth
Running a successful business entails managing a multitude of risks every day from new competitors to new technology. Climate change itself brings a plethora of business challenges. How can we frame t...Show More
7) Arctic Warming & Winter Weirding - Dr. Jennifer Francis
The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the planet and there is no doubt that this is having a profound effect on weather patterns. How is Arctic warming and amplification changing w...Show More
8) Fires and Drought - Dr. Jonathan Overpeck
Meteorologist Paul Douglas here for Climatrends, a podcast series examining the business implications of a rapidly changing climate. My businesses are based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, where we’v...Show More
9) Climate Change and Hurricanes - Dr. Kerry Emanuel
Climatrends Podcast Episode 3 - Hurricanes Dr. Kerry Emanuel Meteorologist Paul Douglas here with another episode of Climatrends, examining business risk posed by a rapidly changing climate. Our goal:...Show More
10) Physical Climate Change Risks - Dr. John Abraham
Climatrends Podcast Episode 2 - Physical Risks Dr. John Abraham Has the weather always been this crazy? Paul Douglas here. I’m a meteorologist, on a good day. Lately there haven’t been many good weath...Show More