This Way Forward

Nov 18 2024 35 ep. 23 mins 1.3k

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In this documentary series, we take look at a variety of challenges facing Europe today. What ideas are out there and which solutions should we implement to enrich our common future?

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What you're getting wrong about electric cars - Live from the Web Summit

Nov 18 2024 35 mins

The electric car industry in Europe has been having a difficult time with sales underperforming and factories threatened with closure. At the same time, almost everyone agrees that electrifying transport is essential to combat global warming. So what's going on? CGTN Europe's Ken Browne talked to Aurelien de Meaux, founder and CEO of car charging station operator Electra. Electra r

In Fact: Is smog suffocating China?

Oct 26 2024 5 mins

So there used to be this term called 'airpocalypse' in China, a decade ago. In 2016, The New York Times even ran a piece about the issue dramatically titled: 'Life in China, Smothered by Smog.'A decade later, an unprecedentedly short period for a nation of its GDP and size, China has brought these blue skies - cleaner air - across the country. Since 2013, the peak of the airpocalyp

In Fact: How valuable are China's National Parks?

Oct 25 2024 7 mins

China is a nation of history, metropolis, art, industry, and, the focus of my career and expeditions - the wild: covering 42 percent of the country. In Europe, wilderness covers only 2 percent. But the percentage of wilderness itself doesn't tell the whole story: What about protection?In 2021, China announced the creation of the first 5 of 49 planned national parks spanning land an

In Fact: China's global solar revolution

Oct 24 2024 6 mins

To avoid a global climate catastrophe we need to triple the amount of global renewable energy by 2030. About half of this is expected to come from solar. And, since 2006, the solar panels China has produced account for 70-80 percent of the total, global GW of the installed capacity today. But China is also getting the most pushback from the U.S. and Europe. What's happening here? W

In Fact: Is China's reforestation a giant green washing project?

Oct 23 2024 6 mins

Five years ago, a paper published in one of the world's most prestigious peer-reviewed journals made headlines across the world. The authors used NASA satellite data to claim that at least one-quarter of the world's green leaf area increase since the 2000s was due to Chinese tree planting efforts. Some celebrated, some couldn't believe it. What went on here and are China's newly pl

In Fact: Is China's car industry a threat to the West?

Oct 22 2024 6 mins

Electric vehicles, or EVs, from China are the focus of a global debate. On the one hand, they are affordable, climate-friendly, and advancing technology at a breakneck pace. On the other, the U.S. has already slapped a 100 percent tariff on them and the European Union is moving towards tariffs up to 36.3 percent on the grounds that they harm local carmakers. During a climate crisis

Changemakers: Battle for the bears

Dec 08 2023 29 mins

In April 2023, Andrea Papi became the first Italian in 150 years to be killed by a bear. Mauled while jogging, he became an unwitting victim of a well-meaning EU-funded rewilding program designed to reintroduce bears to the Italian Dolomites. This podcast explores where responsibility lies for his death and how it has exacerbated a growing divide in Italy and beyond about the wisdo

Changemakers: The Gorilla Champion

Dec 01 2023 27 mins

In this podcast, meet Uganda’s first wildlife vet and expert on mountain gorillas Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka. She’s not your average vet, her work has brought back Uganda’s wildlife from the brink of disaster and her winning formula is being adopted across Africa but this is just one of her many achievements. She says:‘I would like to be remembered as someone who went outside t

Bridge Builders: Zoë Reed - a bridge between hearts

Feb 14 2023 29 mins

Zoë Reed’s English mother Susan met her Chinese father KCSun at college in the late 1940s. He had been brought over as the first evermature Chinese student funded by British United Aid to China; she wasone of only three women – from the cohort of 103. “She had a pretty good choice of which young man to fall in love with and told me there was a chap from Iceland she quite lik

Bridge Builders: Zi Lan Liao - preserving Chinese heritage with music

Feb 14 2023 30 mins

Zi Lan Liao is one of the leading exponents of Chinese music. Her busy career on the international concert circuit has resulted in her being the most widely heard and best appreciated performer on the gu zheng worldwide. Her work includes Oscar-winning scores and modern fusion music – but her real passion is passing on her musical heritage to the British Chinese children of the P