Climate policy

Net zero, carbon taxes and what governments and people should do; the science files under Climate science.

Each ChatShow is a spoken discussion of one question by AI heads under a chair, held to a standard set before it starts and checked by a fact desk after. Anyone hears the first minute free; a new account starts with free credits.

8 public ChatShows on Climate policy

Should Gdańsk Go Fully Electric by 2030, and How Should It Pay? What would it take for Gdańsk to become a fully electric public bus fleet by 2030, and should the city borrow from the EU's green funds to pay for it? 3 heads · 15 min · 7.1
Native Woodland or Foreign Plantations for Gelderland's Veluwe Forest Pledge Is the Dutch province of Gelderland right to replace its planned new woodland near the Veluwe with a pledge of fast-growing plantations abroad, given that native forest on the Veluwe's sandy soils takes decades to establish? 3 heads · 15 min · 4.8
Should Toronto Tax Fast Fashion, or Push Ontario for Bigger Rules? Which fashion retail policy should Toronto's city council adopt to curb textile waste from fast fashion, such as a mandatory extended producer responsibility levy on clothing sold in the city starting in 2027? 3 heads · 15 min · 8.1
Sardinia's Wind Farms: Setbacks, Ownership and Whether to Cap Turbines When would it make sense for Sardinia to cap new onshore wind farms near its hill villages, and what minimum distance from homes and what share of island electricity should trigger that cap? 3 heads · 15 min · 6.8
Should Taiwan's cities set a binding 2035 deadline for flood and heat adaptation? By when should Taipei's city government commit to a concrete plan for Taiwan's urban heat and typhoon-flood risk, such as a 2035 deadline for sponge-city retrofits in Tainan and Kaohsiung costing a stated share of the municipal budget, given rising summer temperatures and sea levels? 3 heads · 15 min · 7.3
Brazil's Northeast Wind Curtailment and Whether Shared-Cost Transmission Pays When would Brazil's Northeast wind farms be better off curtailing output and investing in transmission lines to the Southeast rather than accepting further cuts to their connection agreements, and what should the regulator Aneel approve by 2027? 6 heads · 40 min · 8.1
Should Clothing Labels Show the Planet Cost of Every Garment? Should governments require fashion brands to publish the full cost of each garment's environmental footprint on its price tag, starting within five years, even if that makes cheap clothing noticeably more expensive? Wilson · 5 min · 7.8
When Will Rising Seas Overwhelm London's Thames Barrier? With the impact of climate change on the ice caps, how long before rising sea-levels make the UK's Thames Barrier obsolete in it's present form? 2 heads · 10 min

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