Bonus Episodes: The State of US and Global Climate Politics in the Biden Era
While we are developing our second season, we checked in with some experts to see how climate progress is shaping up in America and internationally. So much is happening in the Biden era! Listen to both shows below, featuring Leah and Katharine’s conversations at the Bloomberg Green Summit and the Crosscut Festival in spring 2021.
This episode features a conversation with Julian Brave NoiseCat, recorded at the Crosscut Festival.
Julian is a writer, activist, and policy expert with a deep understanding of Washington climate politics. Julian was actually a guest correspondent in season one — go episode 7 from our first season: “Changing Woman: One Navajo’s Fight for a Just Transition."
The protagonist of amazing episode, Wahleah Johns, is now working in the Biden Administration as a senior official at the Department of Energy.
Julian is the Vice President of Policy & Strategy at the think tank Data For Progress and a Fellow at the Type Media Center. He’s also a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Vox, Vice and many other outlets.
In this episode, we look at all the action happening in Washington on climate change: big-name hires, big-ticket policies, and the potential high-impact outcomes.
The conversation is all about where things stand in the lead-up to global climate talks in the fall.
We were fortunate to get Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland, to talk about this topic with us. Mary served as the President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. She’s now the chair of the Elders.
Mary has dedicated much of her career to solving the climate crisis. She’s the author of two moving memoirs, “Everybody Matters” which was from 2012 and “Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience and the Fight for a Sustainable Future,” was published in September 2018. She is also co-host of a podcast on the climate crisis, called “Mothers of Invention.”
In this episode, we go deep with Mary on what we can expect from this year's international climate negotiations.