Climate Conversations

Jan 29 2025 156 ep. 20 mins 25
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Hosts Jack Board and Liling Tan bring years of expertise covering climate change and sustainability to this weekly podcast. A one-stop shop for news, views and interviews.

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Trump 2.0: Red lines through green policies

Jan 29 2025 19 mins  
US President Donald Trump announced his return to the White House with a flurry of executive orders, including many impacting climate and energy policy. Jack Board and Liling Tan chat with HuffPost’s Alexander Kaufman to understand what it means for the US and the world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The coolest technology shaking up clean energy in 2025

Jan 22 2025 19 mins  
Innovation in clean energy is moving fast. As the world marks International Day of Clean Energy, Jack Board and Liling Tan pick out some of the technologies to watch in 2025. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wildfires out of control: How natural disasters are made worse by climate change

Jan 15 2025 22 mins  
California is struggling with wildfires as people evacuate their homes which are burning to the ground. What’s in store for 2025 when it comes to natural disasters here and around the world as climate impacts intensify? Jack Board and Liling Tan speak to Ira Spitzer who is reporting from Los Angeles.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Will Southeast Asia’s digital rush come at a climate cost?

Jan 08 2025 17 mins  
Southeast Asia is one of the hottest markets for setting up new digital infrastructure. But this modern-day gold rush of building data centres poses a huge climate challenge - dealing with the enormous carbon footprint. Jack Board and Liling Tan give a ringside report. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Best of: Why are extinct species coming back in Singapore?

Jan 01 2025 17 mins  
In the final installment of our top five episodes of the year, Liling Tan speaks to Yeo Suay Hwee and Tan Gim Cheong from the Nature Society about certain native species that were once uprooted are now are coming back, and those that are lost forever. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Best of: Migrant workers bear the brunt of heat stress

Dec 25 2024 23 mins  
In the fourth of our top five episodes from the archives, Liling Tan asks Associate Professor Jason Lee, Director of the Heat Resilience and Performance Centre at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in NUS about the risks migrant workers face and what other innovative solutions can employers look at to improve the situation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Best of: Can AI better predict the weather?

Dec 18 2024 19 mins  
In the third of our top five episodes of the year, Jack Board and Liling Tan explore how the use of AI is changing industries in unimaginable ways, especially in the climate change and sustainability space.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Best of: Must climate communication be so dense?

Dec 11 2024 25 mins  
In the second of our top five episodes of the year, Liling Tan and Jack Board speak with climate academics Prof Winston Chow and Assoc Prof Terry van Gevelt from Singapore Management University to find out why explaining climate change can get tricky when jargon gets in the way. This podcast episode is in partnership with the inaugural Ideas Festival. You can find out more at www.

Best of: How else can an air-con nation keep cool in a heatwave?

Dec 04 2024 17 mins  
In the first of our top five episodes from the archives this year, we roll back the clock to the first episode of Climate Conversations where hosts Jack Board and Liling Tan tell you why the heatwave will create bigger problems in future than just wilting plants.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A climate wrap of 2024

Nov 27 2024 24 mins  
From apocalyptic storms to silver linings, Jack Board and Liling Tan talk through some of the key issues around climate change. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.