The Climate Bridge Podcast

Welcome to The Climate Bridge Podcast, adelphi and Polis180’s new podcast series. This podcast, like the Transatlantic Climate Bridge initiative behind it, focuses on climate change and climate policy in Germany, the US, and Canada—a key goal is to improve climate cooperation between the three countries.

Episode 3:

Catherine Stewart – Canada’s inclusive approach to Climate Diplomacy

Recorded during the Transatlantic Climate Bridge’s conference in July 2022, the third episode of the Climate Bridge Podcast discusses Canada’s climate diplomacy and the climate and energy outcomes of the G7 meetings. In conversation with Assistant Deputy Minister Catherine Stewart of Environment and Climate Change Canada, our hosts Tobias Bernstein (adelphi) and Luisa Kern (Polis180) took an in-depth look at the interlinkage of climate change and foreign policy, but also at the role of women and indigenous people in climate diplomacy. Focusing on how the green transformation towards carbon-neutrality can also be a just transition that leaves no one behind, the trio took a closer look at multilateralism, Canada’s federal structure, and how to navigate environmental policies in today’s geopolitical landscape.

Guest: Catherine Stewart

Hosts: Tobias Bernstein and Luisa Kern

Producers: Kira Schrödel, Tina Bayer, Tobias Bernstein, Anna-Loreen Mondorf, and Trisha Kershaw

Mixing and post-production: Lars Feyen and Kira Schrödel

Music: Maximilian Below

Episode 2: 

After talking to Lisa Badum about German Climate Foreign Policy in our debut episode, the second episode of the Climate Bridge Podcast turns to the U.S. perspective on international climate policy. Hosts Mary Hellmich – adelphi - and Lars Feyen - Polis180 - speak with Sue Biniaz, John Kerry’s Deputy Special Envoy on Climate Change, about all things U.S. climate policy. The three discuss everything from how Biniaz’s team works both domestically and with international partners to implement initiatives such as the Global Methane Pledge (established at COP26 in Glasgow, the Pledge aims to reduce emissions of methane – a short-lived but immensely potent greenhouse gas – by 30% from 2020 levels by 2030), to the evolving nature of international climate policy in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  Mary, Lars, and Sue share their “climate policy crushes,” and Lars teaches the English-speaking audience a German climate-related legal term.

Episode 1:

This first episode features an interview with Lisa Badum, a member of parliament for Germany’s Green party. Lisa speaks with hosts Noah Gordon, advisor at adelphi, and Sarah Zitterbarth, climate program leader at Polis180 on topics ranging from Germany’s G7 presidency, to windmill regulations in Bavaria and Texas, to the possibility of a climate club including Germany and North America. Sarah and Noah also discussed their “climate policy crushes”—their favorite policies from across the Atlantic—and explained what long German compound words have to do with climate litigation. 

Hosts: Noah Gordon, Sarah Zitterbarth

Producers: Mary Hellmich, Kira Schrödel, Tina Bayer, and Henrik Hansen

Mixing and post-production: Lukas Hochscheidt

Music: Maximilian Below