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The ClimateTech Podcast

UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre

In the Climate Tech Podcast, we focus on the technology and the solutions that can help us in the climate crisis, and more importantly, on how we can speed up implementation in developing countries.

Published by UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre

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July 3 · 1 hr 3 min
Loss and Damage Beyond the Economics: Health as Non-Economic Loss
In this episode, we talk about how climate change is affecting both physical health and mental health, and why recognizing these impacts is essential for policy, planning, and support for affected communities. Guests: - Liz Willetts, Planetary...
June 1 · 1 hr 2 min
Scaling Urban NbS for Climate & Biodiversity Action
In this episode, we discuss how to unlock the potential of urban Nature-based Solutions. We look at multilevel governance as the missing enabler of implementationconnecting national to local levels. With concrete examples from Brazil and Montreal we...
May 4 · 42 min
Solar Powered Irrigation - Unlocking a Sustainable Market in Uganda
In this episode of the ClimateTech Podcast we look at Solar powered irrigation, and how to help scale a Commercially driven Solar Powered Irrigation market, to help smallholder farmers grow their crops and adapt to climate change. With a special...
April 8 · 1 hr 18 min
Non Economic Losses - Measuring Climate Change Impacts
This episode explores different aspects of Non Economic Losses from climate impacts, looking closer at cultural heritage and indigenous peoples perspectives, to try and find out what kind of data or evidence are most needed to better understand and...
Oct 9, 2025 · 52 min
Advancing Biobased Technologies in the Bioeconomy
This episode looks at the concept of the bioeconomy and its potential to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation It examines the progress being made in scaling up the availability and use of these technologies, highlighting both global...
Jul 18, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min
Clean Cooking - Financing, Policy, and Innovation for Last Mile Impact
In this episode of the ClimateTech Podcast, we explore how clean cooking—especially electric cooking powered by renewables—is emerging as a powerful climate solution with wide-reaching benefits for health, gender equality, and sustainable development....
Jul 11, 2025 · 40 min
Turning Waste into Power — Waste-to-Energy Solutions in Africa
In this episode of the ClimateTech Podcast, we explore how waste—often seen as a challenge—can become a powerful resource for clean energy and local development across Africa. We dive into the growing waste crisis, how waste-to-energy solutions can...
Jul 4, 2025 · 32 min
Unlocking the potential of biogas
In this episode of the ClimateTech Podcast, we explore the untapped potential of biogas as a renewable energy solution— looking at experiences from Brazil and research from Africa. From household systems to industrial-scale applications, biogas offers...
Apr 25, 2025 · 54 min
Breaking barriers: Scaling urban nature-based solutions in South Asia and Latin America
In this episode, we look at nature-based solutions and how we can overcome the barriers to scale and implement them in growing cities. The guests present several societal and biodiversity co-benefits resulting implementing nature-based solutions for...
Apr 4, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min
Financing Nature-Based Solutions
In this episode, we look at investing in urban climate resilience with Nature-Based Solutions through innovative business models, and a new publication with examples on how to develop them:...
Jul 3, 2024 · 42 min
Urban Climate Technology - Green solutions and water
In this episode, we talk about climate technology in cities, and about implementing green solutions in an urban context. We look at overall issues, challenges and opportunities, and look closer at what we can learn from Thailand on governance for the...
Nov 2, 2023 · 1 hr 3 min
The Adaptation Finance Gap - Beyond the numbers
In this episode, we talk about the Adaptation Gap, more specifically the adaptation finance gap. Joined by the authors of the finance chapter of UNEPs 2023 Adaptation Gap Report, we delve into the big numbers, go beyond them, and try to show what the...
Jun 13, 2023 · 33 min
Carbon markets and climate finance - Article 6 in Pakistan
In this episode we talk about carbon markets, and emissions trading under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. We look at Pakistan and the country's experiences, potential and needs when it comes to using Article 6 to both implement NDCs and raise...
Dec 22, 2022 · 32 min
Transparency Special: The how and why of climate advisory institutions
What is a climate advisory institution, why are they important when it comes to climate policy and action, and what can we learn from Costa Rica when it comes to setting one up? In this special transparency episode of the ClimateTech podcast we...
Dec 1, 2022 · 13 min
Climate Technology Progress - COP27 and beyond
When it comes to technology and climate action, it's no longer about the 'what', it is about the 'how'. In this special COP episode we look at the progress of climate technology implementation and how COP27 addressed the needs and priorities from...
Feb 28, 2022 · 36 min
Preventing food waste with tech and policy
In this episode, we talk about food waste, and what we can do to prevent that huge amounts of food each year is wasted. Why do tons after tons of perfectly edible food end up in landfills, and what kind of technology is out there, that can help us?...
Nov 26, 2021 · 41 min
Indigenous Peoples' technology and knowledge
We talk about Indigenous Peoples' technology and the strength and barriers in a climate action context. What are the strengths of IP knowledge and tech in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation? How can we create synergies and win-win...
Jun 17, 2020 · 27 min
Solar PV in Kenya, opportunities, challenges and barriers
This episode of the ClimateTech podcast, and the interviews, build on a UNEP DTU Partnership project called Technology, Markets and Investment for Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Development, or simply just TEMARIN. We work with local partners to see...
Apr 7, 2020 · 36 min
Technology for the adaptation gap
Is closing the adaptation gap just a matter of getting the right technology to the right place at the right time? In this episode, we talk about the adaptation gap, what it is and what role technology can play in closing it. What are the barriers and...
Nov 29, 2019 · 37 min
COP25: Technology Needs and Optimism
Leading up to the COP25, we discuss how important a focus on climate technology implementation is, and how the negotiations can help developing countries get access to technology. With input from UNFCCC Secretariat and a Liberian COP-negotiator, we...

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