Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

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• We Need More Metals Than Ever. But at What Cost? | Ep279: Rohitesh Dhawan

  October 21, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

  The world needs more metals than ever before, but can the mining industry deliver the resources responsibly? The energy transition depends on the mining industry, yet the sector faces hard questions over coal, carbon emissions…

• The Race to Rebuild Ukraine's Energy Infrastructure | Deep Dive 02: Andrii Gerus & Dmytro Boroday

  October 19, 2026 · 57 min

  Can you make energy investments work in a country at war? Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, repeated attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure have devastated its power system. By spring 2024, the country’s dispatchable…

• How Energy Security Became National Security | Ep278: Alexander De Croo

  October 14, 2026 · 59 min

  The world is facing a new era of geopolitical instability, rising energy costs and declining development finance. For many countries, access to reliable, affordable energy is no longer just an economic priority, it is a question of…

• How Ukraine Can Survive Another Brutal Winter | Ukraine Deep Dive 01

  October 12, 2026 · 41 min

  It's been over four and a half years since Russia unleashed its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and still the war shows no sign of stopping. This week on Cleaning Up, we launch a new Deep Dive looking at Ukraine and how its people and…

• Is Nuclear Fusion About To Have A Theranos Moment? Ep 277: Sir Steven Cowley

  October 7, 2026 · 60 min

  There's an old joke that energy from nuclear fusion is 30 years away and always will be. For many decades, the industry did little to spoil the fun, running mammoth and unwieldy research projects, hoovering up a few billion dollars every…

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