As Sustainable Planet's cross-interview with The Politics Guys, Kimberly talks with Akshat Rathi, award-winning senior reporter for Bloomberg News and host of Bloomberg Green's climate podcast, Zero, about his new book, Climate Capitalism: Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age.
Listen to Part One of the interview on The Politics Guys
Topics Kimberly & Akshat discuss include:

How a misinformed campaign marketing slogan about ‘clean coal’ led Akshat into the year-long pursuit of uncovering the truth about climate technology

Why economists feel the way to address climate change is to put a price on carbon

How to achieve negative carbon emissions since zero emissions alone isn’t enough

Why, when it comes to electric cars, you’ve never heard of Wan Gang, though Elon Musk is a household name

Why the very industries that created lithium-ion batteries, solar cells, and carbon capture and storage are so resistant to employing that technology

How private capital from billionaires like Bill Gates and anyone with a 401K plan is a key part of pursuing climate technology

That climate justice is both ethically the right path but also reaps global economic benefits

The need to shift from ‘shareholder’ to ‘stakeholder’ if we’re going to meet the less-ambitious Paris Conference climate change goals


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