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Zero: The Climate Race

Zero is about the tactics and technologies taking us to a world of zero emissions. Each week Bloomberg’s award-winning reporter Akshat Rathi talks to the people tackling climate change – a venture capitalist hunting for the best cleantech investment, scientists starting companies, politicians who have successfully created climate laws, and CEOs who have completely transformed their businesses. The road to zero emissions has many paths and everyone’s got an opinion about the best route. Listen in.

Website ↗ Last published 5 November 2026 261 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Zero: The Climate Race

“We introduced a new scheme 18 months ago. It provides a 30% rebate to households that put in a battery. As we speak, 589,000 houses have done it in the last 18 months… and we're putting in 2,000 every working day… We actually have more home battery capacity than the US, more than China or India. The only country now ahead of us is Germany.” — Chris Bowen, Zero: The Climate Race
Chris Bowen · 5 Nov 2026 Listen →
“No one has said to me anywhere in the world, 'you know what this energy crisis shows us? We need more fossil fuels.' They're saying the contrary, that renewable energy is sovereign energy… The sun has to travel 150 million kilometers to Earth. It doesn't have to travel the 150 kilometers through the Straits of Hormuz. No war can get in the way of the wind.” — Chris Bowen, Zero: The Climate Race
Chris Bowen · 5 Nov 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Zero: The Climate Race is hosted by Akshat Rathi , Oscar Boyd , Mythili Rao , Sarah Holder , Christine Driscoll , Rebecca Jones , K. Oanh Ha , Carol Masser , Stephanie Flanders , David Gura , Alyssa MacDonald and Mohsis Andam .

Recent Episodes

  1. 5 Nov 2026

    How Australia gives its citizens free electricity

    With Chris Bowen

  2. 29 Oct 2026

    The big questions over European electrification

    With Kristian Ruby

  3. 22 Oct 2026

    First cars, now trains: Batteries are coming for everything

    With James O'Sullivan

  4. 15 Oct 2026

    A historic El Niño is coming that could cost the world trillions: Odd Lots

    With Tracy Alloway , Joe Weisenthal and Justin Mankin

  5. 8 Oct 2026

    Tasmania’s electric shipping bet: Bloomberg Australia

    With Rebecca Jones and David Stringer

  6. 1 Oct 2026

    Inside the little-known world of China's clean tech startups

    With Tonny Xie

  7. 28 Sep 2026

    UK energy secretary on net zero and cheaper power: live from New York

    With Aaron Rutkoff and Miatta Fahnbulleh

  8. 24 Sep 2026

    How to build an electrostate

    With Arthur Downey

  9. 17 Sep 2026

    Inside China’s $7 trillion green finance market

    With Ma Jun

  10. 10 Sep 2026

    Free Solo climber Alex Honnold's next mission: solar for everyone

    With Alex Honnold

  11. 7 Sep 2026

    Do-it-yourself energy traders are gaming the grid: Big Take

    With Aaron Wilkes

  12. 31 Aug 2026

    Nepal disaster shows how mountains are becoming less stable

    With Lou Del Bello

Guests

Avinash Persaud (6 episodes), David Stringer (5 episodes), Aaron Rutkoff (4 episodes), Kim Stanley Robinson (4 episodes), Eric Roston (4 episodes), Al Gore (3 episodes), Laura Millan (3 episodes), Zahra Hirji (3 episodes), Kira Bindrim (3 episodes), Jason Bordoff (3 episodes), André Corrêa do Lago (3 episodes), Colin McKerracher (3 episodes), and 194 more.