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Climate of Change (Series 2)

By: Cate Blanchett, Danny Kennedy
Narrated by: Cate Blanchett, Danny Kennedy
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Two long-term friends explore despair, optimism and hope in the face of environmental change. Cate and Danny return with Season 2 of the acclaimed series Climate of Change where they interview guests along the way, discussing the challenges humankind faces and celebrate the ground-breaking work tackling the crisis. It’s a listening experience to empower the change we all want to see. Featuring an exclusive soundtrack by Grammy Award-winning electronic artist Imogen Heap in collaboration with biologist and filmmaker Dan O’Neill, it’s the podcast about climate change that gives you hope...hopefully.

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Episodes
  • Ep 1: A Persistence of Positivity

    Ep 1: A Persistence of Positivity
    Oct 5 2022

    In the first episode of the second series of Climate of Change our hosts and longtime friends Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy embark on another journey of discovery, uncovering the positive and thrilling stories happening globally in the field of climate action. In a Persistence of Positivity they hear from Christiana Figueres on why she is 'a 'stubborn optimist”, anthropologist Tim Ingold on how everything is connected and we go to Northern Australia to hear how indigenous know-how is transforming fire management.
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    38 mins
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  • Ep 2: A Mayhem of Cars

    Ep 2: A Mayhem of Cars
    Oct 5 2022

    In A Mayhem of Cars Danny discovers he is rather good at imitating the sound of a horse while Cate consults her book on collective nouns for inspiration as the duo delve into the world of transport and look at how we are going to be getting around in the future. They find out about electric rickshaws in Delhi and all about India's first solar ferry. How parents and school kids in Barcelona are taking over the streets and they discover the first city in the world where all the public transport is already electric.
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    32 mins
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  • Ep 3: Fire in a Wire

    Ep 3: Fire in a Wire
    Oct 5 2022

    In Fire in a Wire Cate and Danny discover how simple and straightforward it can be to provide clean, green energy to everyone. In Nigeria the answer is to use solar and batteries to power generators. Another innovator is helping remote communities in Cambodia who aren't even connected to the grid. And the first solar plant is built in a refugee camp in Jordan revolutionising the lives of those now living there.
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    32 mins
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Climate of Change with Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy

Meet the hosts

Cate Blanchett
An internationally acclaimed, Academy award-winning actor, producer, artistic director, and humanitarian, Cate is a Global Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and a lifetime member of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Cate is a strong supporter of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy and received a Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos for her work with UNHCR. In 2012, Cate was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture and has presided over the festival juries in Cannes and Venice. She has received Honorary Doctorates of Letters from three universities as well as the Companion of the Order of Australia in the General Division in recognition of her continued advocacy for the arts as well as humanitarian and environmental causes.

Currently, Cate is in pre-production for the Apple series Disclaimer directed by Alfonso Cuaron, in which she will star and executive produce. Recently Cate wrapped production for the Todd Field-directed feature Tar, in which she will also star and executive produce, as well as Del Toro’s Pinocchio. She stars in Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, as well as Adam McKay’s film, Don't Look Up. Alongside Andrew Upton (with whom she was co-CEO and Artistic Director of the Sydney Theatre Company from 2008 - 2014), she is the co-Founder and Principal of film and television production company Dirty Films.

Danny Kennedy
Danny is CEO of New Energy Nexus, connecting entrepreneurs to capital to build an abundant clean energy economy that benefits all. NEX is a platform organisation for funds and incubators, with chapters in ten countries. He oversees the CalSEED.fund for early-stage companies in California plus the CalTestBed initiative with the University of California. He is an adviser to Young Greentech Entrepreneurs in China with the Asia Society and is Chair of the Board of Third Derivative, a program with RMI building the world’s largest climatetech accelerator.

Danny co-founded Sungevity in 2007, the company that created remote solar design, and Powerhouse, an incubator and fund in Oakland, CA. He was the first backer of Mosaic, the $3B solar loan provider, and remains on the Board of Powerhive, a solar utility in Kenya. He was a founding Director of Sunergise, out of Fiji and EnergyLab Australia. He is a Director of the Epic Institute and an adviser to Solar Philippines. He authored Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy – and Our Planet – from Dirty Energy in 2012. Prior to being an entrepreneur and investor he worked at Greenpeace and other NGOs on climate & energy from 1989.

A documentary with a stunning soundscape

Alongside the stories of ingenuity and resilience discussed in Climate of Change we hope you'll enjoy the soundtrack created by Grammy award-winning electronic music artist Imogen Heap and wildlife sound producer Dan O’Neill.

Imogen Heap


As a self-produced composer, recording artist and tech enthusiast for over 20 years, Imogen Heap has multiple awards under her belt, her own independent music label and three honorary doctorates. Never sitting still, she has developed music gestureware MI·MU gloves and an integrated digital ID solution, The Creative Passport, to empower music makers to be the change toward a fair and flourishing music ecosystem. She has released under-the-skin hits such as Hide and Seek for grown-ups to The Happy Song for babies, composed the music for the Harry Potter and The Cursed Child stage show and is currently building her own AI system.

Imogen is an artist’s artist, an entrepreneur, and a mother and is also an advisory board member for the Creative Industries Federation, a director of FAC and has collaborated with Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Jeff Beck, Nitin Sawhney, Jon Hopkins & many more.

Dan O'Neill

Dan O'Neill is a wildlife television presenter, film director, zoologist and LGBTQIA+ activist. After working internationally as an expedition researcher and video journalist, he joined the BBC’s Natural History Unit, presenting for BBC Earth.

He has since directed and presented a number of projects from finding snow leopards in the remote mountains of Central Asia and filming jaguars deep in the Amazon Rainforest, to traveling into the red zone of Mindanao Island, Philippines to learn the story of the world's most endangered eagles. To date, Dan’s digital films have accumulated millions of views across platforms. His new series Dan O’Neill Investigates launches summer 2022 on BBC Earth YouTube.

Dan founded the UK’s first touring wildlife film festival, Wilderland, which, after a sell-out UK tour in 2019, will return for autumn 2022. Furthermore, he is an advocate for increased LGBTQIA+ representation in STEM careers and wildlife television, for which he was named one of Attitude Magazine’s 101 Global Trailblazers in 2021. In 2022, Dan begins shooting his first international broadcast wildlife series, filming some of the world’s most iconic species across three continents.

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This is such a fab podcast, listening to ways people around the globe are changing the ways they live and work to better our global climate is outstanding and making myself think of how could I change the way I live.

Amazing podcast

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Is anyone listening?
Of course! I keep listening to the Climate of Change every morning.
hopefully, give you hope
thankfully, give you thanks :)

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Series 2 is even better than the first. Hope they had more episodes. The celebrity touch is a good one to get more people to give it a go maybe? I didn't know Danny Kennedy before and while I saw Cate Blanchett simply as an actress, I now hold her in much higher regard. Look forward to Series 3.

Essential, must listen (both series)

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