This Year in Climate: 2023

It’s been a year of weather extremes — again. But there’s also been cause for  renewed hope about our climate future. On the heels of this year’s international climate conference held in the oil-rich Middle East, Climate One hosts Greg Dalton and Ariana Brocious review major climate stories of the year, both lows and highs.

This special episode features excerpts from some of Climate One’s most surprising, moving and compelling interviews of 2023, including conversations with luminaries Rev. Lennox Yearwood and Rebecca Solnit, White House Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi, climate activist Nalleli Cobo and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker.

Guests: 

Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., CEO, Hip Hop Caucus 

Kathy Baughman-McLeod, Director, Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center; Senior VP, Atlantic Council 

Ali Zaidi, White House Climate Advisor

Jane Fonda, Activist, Actor

Nalleli Cobo, Cofounder, People Not Pozos

Ralph Chami, Assistant Director, Western Hemisphere Division, Institute for Capacity Development, IMF

Bernie Krause, Soundscape Ecologist

Paolo Bacigalupi, author

John Curtis, U.S. Representative (R-UT)

Cory Booker, United States Senator, New Jersey

Rebecca Solnit, Writer, Historian, Activist

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