Climate Curious
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 260
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Climate Quickie: How big oil play the blame game
Why methane reduction is the ultimate climate hack
What farmers in India are doing to protect their crops from heat waves
Climate Quickie: Why guilt and shame don’t drive climate action
How climate tech got its sexy back
Why talking is the most important thing you can do to fight climate change
Why oceans are heroes, not victims
Why the climate crisis is a health crisis
How seaweed reduces cow burps
Climate Quickie: How to prevent climate activism burnout
Why climate has a youthwashing problem
How cities are redefining what it means to be green
Cities — if they are designed to be sustainable, equitable and joyous — are the best hope for humanity, says architect, author and TED speaker, Vishaan Chakrabarti, on the latest episode of TEDxLondo…
Climate Quickie: What even is COP?
Everyone’s talking about COP26, but what is it? We sit down with Rt Hon. David Lammy MP, to get a 5-minute explainer on what this curious ‘COP’ is, which according to Lammy, is actually quite like a …
Why fossil fuels are the new weapons of mass destruction
In what world would stockpiling something so deadly it threatens the future of human survival on planet Earth, make sense? Yep, that’s right, THIS planet! We're currently on track to produce 120% mor…
Coming Soon: Season 3
We're back! Launching October 27, co-hosts Maryam Pasha and Ben Hurst give a sneak peek of the climate goodies we'll be sharing in Season 3 of TEDxLondon's Climate Curious, recorded live from TED's C…
Climate Quickie: What anti-apartheid can teach the climate movement
From protesting on the front lines against the apartheid in South Africa to sitting in the boardrooms of global climate change and human rights organisations, Kumi Naidoo is a lifelong activist with …
Climate Quickie: Why climate change is unfair
Why is it that the communities that have the least to do with creating climate change are the ones who suffer the most harm? You only have to look at Guyana, one of the world’s few carbon sinks, to s…
How we can fight air pollution, together
“Our lungs are not experiments. Every single minute, every day, damage is being done. And that's what happened to Ella,” says clean air advocate Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah and mother of the late Ella…
Climate Quickie: Why cheap food is killing us
The biggest myth about healthy food? That it’s expensive. In this Climate Quickie with knowledge broker, community chef and food policy-maker Dee Woods, she breaks down how to find affordable, health…
How culture can help us win the climate war, p.2
In the second of a special two-part feature, we’re back with South African human rights and environmental activist, Kumi Naidoo, on how we can tap into culture, communications and identity to influen…