Climate Solutions

Marking 40 years since the discovery of the ozone hole, this award-winning audiomentary revisits how scientists and policymakers united to address one of the most pressing environmental crises before climate change. Explore the journey from alarming discovery to global action that led to the healing of our planet's protective shield.

🎧 Winner of the 2024 European Excellence Award for Best Podcast.

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The green transition

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The energy transition

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The future of energy storage

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The future of energy storage

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The other renewables

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The other renewables

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The other renewables

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The future of wind energy

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The future of solar energy

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The history of renewables

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The history of renewables

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The history of renewables

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Henrik Stiesdal interview, © European Patent Office

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Listen to our first audio documentary on how we solved the ozone crisis, the biggest environmental disaster humanity encountered before climate change.

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Bonus content: An interview with Naomi Oreskes.

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How lessons learnt then can help us solve the climate crisis today.

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Bonus content: Once there were billions.

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How we saved the planet.

Sources: Ozone layer recovery is on track, due to success of Montreal Protocol | UN News, | Ozone Secretariat (unep.org), About Montreal Protocol (unep.org), Oral history interview with Mario J. Molina - Science History Institute Digital Collections.

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Bonus content: A folk tale.

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How scientists fought against ozone denial.

Sources: IN THE FACE OF DOUBT | The New Yorker, Look Up and Live. (The Ozone Is Still Tiere.) - The New York Times (nytimes.com), INERT | The New Yorker.

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How hair sprays and deodorants almost destroyed the ozone layer.

Sources: Oral history interview with Mario J. Molina - Science History Institute Digital Collections, Oral History Interview with F. Sherwood Rowland | OpenSky (ucar.edu).

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Bonus content: All about ozone.

Sources: A Killer of a Cure | Science History Institute, The Great American Fraud/Chapter 3 - Wikisource, the free online library, The History of Ozone (illinois.edu), Nasa Ozone Watch: Ozone facts.

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How the world got rid of lead in gasoline.

Sources: REVIEW: Clair Patterson and Robert Kehoe: Two Views of Lead Toxicity (uniwa.gr), Chemical concentrations of pollutant lead aerosols, terrestrial dusts and sea salts in Greenland and Antarctic snow strata - ScienceDirect, Historical changes in integrity and worth of scientific knowledge - ScienceDirect, The Removal of Lead from Gasoline: Historical and Personal Reflections - ScienceDirect, LSU Press :: Books - A Thousand Ways Denied, The Ancient Oyster - Country Roads Magazine, The Development of the Louisiana Oyster Industry in the 19th Century. (lsu.edu), Historical review of...

Bonus content: All about a forgotten profession.

Sources: Iceman (occupation) - Wikipedia, When Everyone Wanted to Be the Iceman - Gastro Obscura (atlasobscura.com), Delivering Blocks of Ice: The Story of the Icemen Through Vintage Photos - Rare Historical Photos.

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How the refrigerator changed our lives.

Sources: CFCS RISE AND FALL OF CHEMICAL 'MIRACLE' - The Washington Post, The History of the Refrigerator: How Our Ancestors Kept Their Cool (familytreemagazine.com), The Birth of The Refrigerator: How We All Ended Up With One (memphisice.com), How It All Began: The History of the Refrigerator (liebherr.com), Ice trade - Wikipedia, White Goods in Italy during a Golden Age (l948-1973) on JSTOR.

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Bonus content: Jamie Kitman talks about being an environmentalist and a car enthusiast.

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How one man’s inventions almost destroyed the planet.

Sources: The Secret History of Lead | The Nation, When Work Drives You Mad: Tales from the Deadly "Loony Gas" Building | Mental Floss

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Bonus: Jonathan Shanklin talks about his experiences in Antarctica.

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How scientists discovered a hole in the sky.

Sources: Ozone Layer (nationalgeographic.org), Ozone depletion - Wikipedia, Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018 (noaa.gov).

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You can listen to the part of our first episode of our new season today. The full episode is out on Tuesday, October 3rd. After that, we will be dropping a new episode every Tuesday.

Subscribe to Climate Solutions so you don’t miss any of it. 

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Have you ever heard of the ozone hole? If you were born after the 1990s, the chances are you might not have. If you were born before, the chances are you have forgotten all about it. But just before the turn of the century, it was on everybody’s lips. The biggest environmental disaster humanity had encountered up to that point.

In our new season, we will tell you all about what caused the ozone hole, how it was discovered and how the world came together to fix it. We will also show you how the le...

Climate Solutions presents Ozone: How to solve an environmental crisis. Coming soon.

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A primary school in the Milan suburbs illustrates the future of school design and learning, thanks to innovative education financing.

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A new Mediterranean climate change research centre on the Greek island of Antikythera will collect valuable data to help model the impacts of climate change in the region.

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Europe’s first floating wind farm, off the coast of Portugal, towers 210 meters above the North Atlantic. An impressive feat of engineering, the three turbines generate enough electricity for 60 000 households, saving an estimated 33 000 tons of CO2 a year.

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Runa Khan believes that everyone should have access to healthcare. Her organisation Friendship brings medicines, vaccines, and education to remote areas of Bangladesh. What does that have to do with the climate?

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A plan to revive Lithuania’s inland waterways with electric barges could cut carbon emissions by cutting 48 000 trucks journeys each a year.

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Europe’s two major challenges, energy independence and climate change, are closely intertwined. But they share one solution – a swift transition to a greener, more sustainable economy.­

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A Swedish company aims to farm salmon on land, providing nutritious, sustainable local salmon to Sweden.

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The Aqaba-Amman desalination project is an innovative and sustainable plan to solve Jordan’s water scarcity.

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Electric vehicles could make a big dent in Europe’s stubborn transport emissions, but they aren’t an absolute cure for the pollution and social problems of mobility.

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Urban climate adaptation is the next step for cities that need to protect themselves—and their citizens—against the inevitable effects of climate change. Here are some ideas about how to do it.

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In the spring of 2022, international wheat prices rose to their highest level in 20 years. In Tunisia, the official price of a baguette remained the same as it had been for more than 15 years – 0.19 Tunisian dinars (about 6 euro cents).

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Rewilding Europe has a new solution for biodiversity management and revives ancient animals in the process.

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Shippers are investing in scrubbers, better blades and sleeker boats to clean up sea and air.

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Cities and regions across Europe slash costs and emissions with energy efficiency investments.

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To halt illegal connections, Eletropaulo puts people in São Paulo’s favelas on its regular grid, promoting social inclusion, gender equality and social energy tariff.

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A neutron source facility in Sweden seeks to bring European materials research and green innovation to unmatched levels.

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A Dublin- headquartered group foresees that the Internet of Things can help to reduce emissions from household heating. It’s researching smart ways to make it happen.

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Austrian high-tech firm USound pioneers the world’s smallest loudspeakers based on a truly digital technology that requires 80% less power.

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As a renewable energy source, cold fusion is potentially unlimited clean energy. But what is fusion energy, how does it work, and is there such a thing as cold fusion?

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Port in southern France embarks on a huge expansion to support two floating wind farms in the Mediterranean.

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Finnish metaverse company Varjo is boldly going where no one has gone before with virtual reality technology that makes virtual teleportation a reality.

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To encourage less pollution, EIB climate finance loan offers Enel a lower interest rate if it cuts more CO2 emissions.

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An Italian took his childhood love for invention and turned it into a company whose energy efficient electronics could make big cuts in carbon emissions.

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Denmark’s entire rail network just switched from diesel to electric. It took a long time to make the change and cost a lot of money. But here’s how the Danes did it—and why it’s so important for other rail systems to do the same thing.

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In the north of Sweden, a new factory is turning out batteries for electric vehicles. It’s a “Gigafactory” owned by Northvolt, a Swedish startup. We’ll find out what Gigafactories are and what impact they can have on climate change. 

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Urban climate adaptation is the next step for cities that need to protect themselves—and their citizens—against the inevitable effects of climate change. Here are some ideas about how to do it.

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A new Portugal sustainable waste management plant uses automated sorting for recycling and energy generation, while improving services to cohesion regions and contributing to the circular economy.

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Romania tackles coastal erosion and protects its tourist industry, as well as protecting biodiversity in the sea and coastal wetlands.

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An investment approach that aims turning a benefit to society into profit.

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Bulgarian nanosatellite SME EnduroSat’s unique technology helps cut the cost of accessing space-based sensors and equipment for scientists and businesses. Though hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company continues to grow with venture debt from the EIB under the Pan-European Guarantee Fund.

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Rice is a major source of carbon emissions, because of the way it’s grown. A private equity-backed Indian company has developed sustainable varieties that require less water, cutting carbon emissions, and boosting yields and incomes for farmers.

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A scaled up off-grid model transforms access to solar power in rural Africa 

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Poste italiane launches an electric fleet for its mail carriers to cut emissions and meet growing demand for mail and parcels across Italy 

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After COVID-19, urban planning will need to adapt to the needs of citizens during a pandemic, as well as making cities greener and climate resilient. Barcelona shows the way

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A French firm is breeding plants that resist climate change and need less pesticide and fertilizer 

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Internet of Things (IoT) technology holds the key to transforming and optimising the way we live, drive, work, manufacture products, or receive healthcare. It can reduce communication and storage costs, as well as energy consumption and carbon footprints. 

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A Finnish company believes that automated vehicles will help halt climate change, so it’s developing software to operate them in all weather conditions 

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Stories about companies from all over the world which are coming up with climate solutions:

Robotics company Starship Technologies is reshaping our shopping and delivery habits, bringing green innovation to urban mobility.

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To cope with changes in climate energy solutions will become even more innovative in years to come. But many of the solutions are already being developed. Here are the most important.

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Whether there’s not enough of it or too much, water is a big problem. Here are innovative water climate solutions to deal with scarcity and flooding in the coming decades.

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Even with innovations to slow global warming, we’ll need climate adaptation for a long time. Here are some new ways of dealing with the impact of climate change that will become big in the years ahead.

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As the only sector that’s emitting more carbon than it used to do, transport climate solutions are more important than ever. Here’s how climate action will change mobility.

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Circular economy climate solutions are more than just recycling. With artificial intelligence and the internet of things, digitalisation is a big tool for reusing things we currently throw away.

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If you were mayor of your city, what urban climate solutions would you put in place to cut carbon emissions and improve the quality of life? Here’s a checklist.

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Energy efficient climate solutions could shave a huge slice off global emissions. Here’s how our buildings are going to change, as we stop global warming.

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In the future, air travel will be even more common than today—but it won’t be bad for the climate. What are the airline climate solutions that aviation companies are working on?

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In the future, air travel will be even more common than today—but it won’t be bad for the climate. What are the airline climate solutions that aviation companies are working on?

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Climate Solutions: A Dictionary of Green Finance is available inner languages!

Listen in French, German, Italian and Spanish!

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A story that has yet to be told

Glossary: carbon tax, carbon pricing, just transition

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A story about the EU climate bank

Glossary: European Investment Bank, European Investment Fund, EIB energy lending policy

Sources:

>€1 trillion for

A story about a bond, a green bond

Glossary: green bonds, bonds, Climate Awareness Bonds, Sustainability Awareness Bonds

Sources:

Climate solutions: Confucius and green finance, Aldo Romani, European Investment Bank, 2019

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A story about taking the waste out of the take-make-waste economy

Glossary: circular economy, linear economy, eco-design, cradle-to-cradle approach, sharing economy

Sources:

A Dictionary of Finance, podcast, European Investment Bank, 2018

The virtuous circle, Ellen MacArthur, Big Ideas, European Investment Bank, 2019

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A story about the Jevons Paradox

Glossary: digital emissions, ICT, decarbonisation, Jevons Paradox

Sources:

Climate solutions: What are your virtual CO2 emissions? Andres Gavira Etzel, European Investment Bank, 2019

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A story about how our food is threatening the climate

Glossary: blockchain, sustainable diet, climate change and agriculture, food waste

Sources:

Climate solutions: Your stomach can save humanity, Janel Siemplenski Lefort, Arnold Verbeek, Surya Fackelmann and Brendan McDonagh, European Investment Bank, 2019

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A story about how blue can be green

Glossary: microplastics, blue economy

Sources:

Climate solutions: Investment to save the seas, Alessandra Borrello and Jonas Byström, European Investment Bank, 2019

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