UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre
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Climate solutions, measured against implementation.
The ClimateTech Podcast examines climate solutions where technology meets finance, policy, local capacity, and lived impact. Its conversations move from definitions to implementation, with guests explaining what makes clean cooking, bioeconomy, biogas, Article 6, adaptation finance, and nature-based solutions succeed or stall.
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The ClimateTech Podcast is a measured interview series about climate technology as a matter of implementation. It treats solutions as systems, not slogans. Across recent episodes, the show follows the connections between clean energy access, climate finance, public policy, local capacity, and social trust. The format is usually straightforward: define the issue, map the barriers, then ask what would make the solution work at scale. That structure gives technical subjects a clear path for listeners who want detail without theatrical packaging. Clean cooking episodes look at electric cooking, solar-powered appliances, awareness gaps, affordability, and financing tools including carbon markets and Article 6. Waste and biogas conversations examine how organic waste, city-level systems, refugee settlements, and local repair capacity shape whether energy technologies last. Bioeconomy discussions place bioenergy, circular approaches, Indigenous knowledge, decentralization, and Global South conditions inside the same frame. Urban nature-based solutions are handled through the practical problems of regulation, capacity, measurement, and fast-growing cities facing flooding, heat waves, pollution, and socioeconomic vulnerability. The adaptation finance episode moves past large numbers to ask what the gap means for developing countries and how needs compare with actual finance flows. The Article 6 episode uses Pakistan and the SPARC program to explain carbon markets, cooperative approaches, NDC implementation, and capacity building. The show also makes room for non-economic loss and damage, including cultural heritage, Indigenous perspectives, and the difficult question of how to measure what climate change puts at risk. Its tone is calm and explanatory. Guests are allowed to answer at length, and the questions often recap the discussion before moving to the next layer. That patience is part of the value. The show is best for listeners who want to understand how climate technologies are selected, funded, governed, and maintained once they leave the report page. It avoids treating innovation as a shortcut. Instead, it returns to the same grounded questions: who benefits, who operates the system, what policy supports it, what evidence is missing, and what happens when the technology reaches households, cities, farms, institutions, or settlements with real constraints.
Made for: For climate policy watchers, development practitioners, researchers, energy access teams, city planners, and sustainability professionals who want careful conversations about how solutions actually move from concept to use.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by tying climate technology to developing-country implementation: finance, capacity, local ownership, maintenance, carbon market readiness, and community impact are treated as central, not secondary.
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
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Climate solutions become concrete through careful conversations about cost, adoption, maintenance, local knowledge, and the policies that connect them.
The ClimateTech Podcast follows climate solutions from policy tables to the places where they must actually work. Lasse Hemmingsen guides discussions on clean cooking, food waste, and waste-to-energy with guests drawn from government, research, business, and local…
A climate solution does not leave the lab here until you ask who pays, repairs, and benefits.
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A careful climate policy discussion that turns abstract loss into concrete heritage and evidence questions.
The episode offers a clear, steady look at non-economic loss and damage, especially where cultural heritage, Indigenous perspectives, and evidence gathering meet.
A clear, grounded look at bioeconomy thinking, with real attention to tradeoffs and climate practice.
The episode gives a steady, clear look at how the bioeconomy might fit into climate action. It moves from the basic idea into the harder questions: whether it can work at scale, who gets to shape it, and where bioenergy, bio CCUS, local resources, and indigenous knowledge…
Clean cooking is framed as a policy, finance, and last-mile delivery challenge.
Les Hemmingsen hosts a discussion of clean cooking that stays practical and grounded, moving through renewable-powered electric cooking, business models, finance mechanisms, carbon markets, and Article 6.
A grounded look at what has to work for waste to energy to make sense in practice.
An episode about Africa's waste problem quickly becomes an argument about energy, and that framing gives it room to breathe. Rapid urban growth, weak formal waste systems, and the pressures on rural communities and refugee settlements all stay in view, but the discussion keeps…
A practical look at food waste as a policy, technology, and behavior problem.
The episode treats food waste as a systems problem, tracing how losses move from production to consumers and where practical intervention still appears possible.
Climate Tech Podcast host Lasse Hemingson convenes Liz Willitz, Alessandro Masasa and Fatime Bakhtiari to argue that health must be counted in loss and damage as non-economic loss, not only as costs like "lost working days." Bakhtiari describes a stocktake of national adaptation plans and NDCs, finding countries such as Moldova and Lao PDR quantify physical health risks while trauma, anxiety and displacement rarely become measurable indicators.
The host opens by framing non-economic loss and damage as the main focus, then brings in cultural heritage and Indigenous perspectives to guide the conversation.
The episode brings together four lead authors of the 2025 Climate Technology Progress Report around the bioeconomy.
The host opens by framing clean cooking and renewable-powered electric cooking, plus the co-benefits they can bring.
The episode starts with waste.
This episode explores the potential of biogas as a renewable energy solution in Africa, discussing challenges, barriers, and lessons from Brazil's successful strategy.
Experts discuss scaling nature-based solutions in fast-growing cities of South Asia and Latin America, focusing on policies, regulations, and capacity building.
Experts discuss the adaptation finance gap, the difference between adaptation costs and available finance in developing countries, as covered in UNEP's 2023 Adaptation Gap Report.
This episode discusses carbon markets and emissions trading under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, focusing on Pakistan's experiences, potential, and needs.
Lasse Hemmingsen frames food waste as a global problem.
Experts discuss the importance of climate technology at COP25 negotiations in Madrid.