2024 set new records for extreme heat around the world in what is already the warmest decade on record. According to the World Meteorological Organization, sea-level rise and ocean heating are accelerating along with the loss of ice from glaciers. We continue to see extreme weather of all kinds wreak havoc on communities across the world. In spite of the growing disruption, countries continue to miss their self-imposed climate targets. And in November, the U.S. re-elected Donald Trump to the presidency, a move that will almost certainly slow the transition to cleaner forms of energy.

And yet, the transition continues. As the year winds down, Climate One hosts Greg Dalton and Ariana Brocious look back upon recent climate progress and pitfalls and revisit some of our most illuminating interviews of 2024.

Guests:

Karen Hao, Contributing Writer, The Atlantic

Shelley Welton, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Law and Energy Policy, University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

Justin J. Pearson, District 86 State Representative, Tennessee General Assembly

Aja Barber, Author, “Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change and Consumerism”

Jamie Beard, founder of Project InnerSpace

Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Climate Justice Activist

Tzeporah Berman, Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

John Morales, Hurricane Specialist, WTVJ NBC6 Miami

Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California

Emily Raboteau, Author, “Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse’”

Jane Goodall, Ethologist, conservationist

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CLIMATE ONE: This Year in Climate: 2024