Zero: The Climate Race

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Zero is about the tactics and technologies taking us to a world of zero emissions. Each week Bloomberg’s award-winning reporter Akshat Rathi talks to the people tackling climate change – a venture capitalist hunting for the best cleantech investment, scientists starting companies, politicians who have successfully created climate laws, and CEOs who have completely transformed their businesses. The road to zero emissions has many paths and everyone’s got an opinion about the best route. Listen in.

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Zero: The Climate Race

Episodes

How to build an electrostate

Inside China’s $7 trillion green finance market

Free Solo climber Alex Honnold's next mission: solar for everyone

Do-it-yourself energy traders are gaming the grid: Big Take

Nepal disaster shows how mountains are becoming less stable

How to fix our vulnerable food system

More than AI, this century’s growth story is climate action

When climate change threatens national security

The Iran war revealed that China has a new energy weapon

When AI and climate anxieties collide to make beautiful stories: Imagine Series

Bloomberg Australia: Lessons from the world's cleanest air

Ditching net zero to win the climate argument

The selfish case for supporting foreign aid

Is the world prepared for the 'super' El Niño?

Is the world becoming too hot for summer sports?

Solar and batteries are thriving — even in Trump’s America

The energy transition debate we need to have

Ice cream fight: Can companies have a social conscience in 2026?

How Asia’s ‘Ukraine moment’ is supercharging the energy transition

The countries plotting the end of the fossil-fuel era

Reform’s Richard Tice wants to end decades of UK climate action

Electrons will be central to the next era of geopolitical stability

The Iran war shows why clean energy is the more secure choice

A new world order is emerging. Can it tackle climate change?

London’s mayor on lessons from one of the world’s greenest cities

Caution, not ambition, will shape the next decade of climate action

How the Iran war will reshape the future of energy

Climate tech makes Europe more resilient to Iran War shocks

Here's Why: The Iran war resets the energy transition

Zack Polanski’s plan to tax billionaires and make energy affordable

Big Take: The energy crisis is speeding up clean tech adoption worldwide

The future of climate science without US support

‘Everywhere I looked, climate change bled’ Abi Daré on writing fiction: Imagine series

War with Iran is a nightmare for oil and gas. What does it mean for clean energy?

Lessons to avoid societal collapse, from 5,000 years of history

(Sponsored Content) Evolving Money: Blue Chip Meets Blockchain

Ethiopia’s fossil fuel car ban is a vision of the future

Do artists have a duty to be political? Imagine series

Electricity is now holding back growth across the global economy

George Saunders goes inside the mind of a climate denier: Imagine series

Electrification – not decarbonization – is the climate story of 2026

Did we get climate finance all wrong?

America the bully becomes the supreme petrostate

Abundance or adequacy? The search for better climate futures: Imagine series

Update: Have China's emissions finally peaked?

How cash-strapped Argentina became a bright spot for renewables

Is this the end of Canada's climate ambitions?

How China’s engineering mindset won the clean-tech race

Bloomberg Australia: How Australia’s climate fight was rekindled

Climate summits are working as they were designed: poorly