“It's seen as a sunk cost and not as an investment. And that’s wrong,” says Patrick Verkooijen, CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation, on this week’s Zero.
“We can't just go along to get along forever,” the former US vice president said on Zero, where he advocated for moving away from requiring COP consensus.
“Bringing 200 countries to a consensus is never easy. None of what's happening in the world right now makes it any easier,” says Zero host Akshat Rathi.
“If we don't invest today, we're just not going to even have it available to us in time,” says Jen Wilcox at the US Department of Energy on the latest Zero.
On this week’s Zero, friends and colleagues pay tribute to Saleemul Huq’s lifelong mission to bring the voices of the global south to climate negotiations.
“I think there’s a fairly straightforward path to getting rid of about 50% of oil demand,” Bloomberg Opinion’s David Fickling says on the latest episode of Zero.
“Shareholders have so much power that has been underexploited,” says Brynn O’Brien of the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility on this week’s Zero.
“As an academic, you want to push things to the limit,” says Martin Green, director of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics, on this week’s Zero.
