Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

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• Is The Earth Warming Faster Than We Thought? | Ep276: Peter Cox

  September 30, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

  This week on Cleaning Up, Bryony Worthington is joined by Peter Cox, Professor of Climate System Dynamics at the University of Exeter and Director of the Global Systems Institute. A former lead author of the IPCC climate reports, Peter has…

• The Scandal at The Heart of The Energy Transition | Ep275: Jan Rosenow

  September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

  Around two-thirds of the energy we put into today’s energy system ends up as rejected heat. So are we measuring the energy transition all wrong? Professor Jan Rosenow joins Michael Liebreich to unpack the “primary energy fallacy”: why…

• The Race Is On To Control AI | Episode 274: Afonso Salema & Sam Winter-Levy

  September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

  More than 80% of the world’s advanced AI compute is concentrated in the US and China. For Europe and other middle powers, the question may no longer be how to win the AI race, but how to avoid becoming dangerously dependent on those that…

• Mexico Wants To Build An $8,000 EV For Everyone | Ep273: Roberto Capuano

  September 9, 2026 · 57 min

  Can Mexico build an electric car for $8,000, and use it to create an entirely new domestic industry? This week on Cleaning Up, Bryony Worthington visits Mexico City to sit down with Roberto Capuano, director of the Olinia Project, and…

• The Testbed for Asia's Clean-Tech Future | Ep272: Jaime Z. Urquijo

  September 2, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

  Can the Philippines become a testbed for Southeast Asia’s clean-tech future?  Kicking off Season 19 of Cleaning Up, guest host Marie Cheong meets Jaime Z. Urquijo, Urban Estates Group Head at Ayala Land, one of the Philippines is largest…

• The Good, Bad and Downright Ugly of Australia's Energy Transition | Deep Dive Australia 09: Anna Freeman & Michael Liebreich

  August 26, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

  Australia has become a laboratory for the energy transition, what can the rest of the world learn? After two weeks travelling across Australia and meeting the leaders shaping its energy transition, Michael Liebreich got a close up view of…

• The Next Frontier of Electrification? Industrial Heat | Ep271: James Macnaghten

  August 19, 2026 · 40 min

  Around the world, factories making food, drink, pharmaceuticals and other everyday products rely on steam, often produced by fossil-fuel boilers. James Macnaghten, founder and CEO of Caldera, is betting that thermal batteries can provide a…

• How Much Better Can Solar Get? Deep Dive Australia 08: Martin Green

  August 17, 2026 · 52 min

  Solar was once dismissed as a marginal technology. Today, it is transforming the global energy system, and few people have done more to make that possible than Professor Martin Green. Innovations developed by Green and his research group…