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The biggest story in the world

Behind the scenes at the Guardian, former editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger and his team reveal a newspaper’s mission to help save the world from climate change. Can they find a new narrative to tell a 20 year-old story? And what will they risk in their efforts to do so? This award winning podcast is simply a must: you don’t have to know much about climate change to begin, we explain everything and what we can all do to stop it in its tracks

  • Divestment : Switch on a Fossil Free Future

    Episode 12: Impact

    As the curtains close on Alan Rusbridger's editorship the first phase of the Keep it in the Ground campaign draws to an end

  • Symbol of carbon dioxide as they demonstrate in front of the Klingenberg power plant in Berli

    Episode 11: Investigations

    Wellcome and Gates have insisted that they aren't going to divest because they are happy with the ethics of their investments, but are they right?

  • Ben van Beurden, chief executive of Shell, acknowledges that we cannot burn all the world's fossil fuel reserves without risking a breach of the 2C limit needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 10, Shell

    Shell's CEO, Ben Van Beurden, has agreed to be grilled by the Guardian on everything from divestment to economics and responsibility – but will he give some unguarded answers?

  • St. Paul's Cathedral is seen among the skyline through the smog in central London

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 9, Religion

    In this episode we go to churches and mosques to see what we can learn about spreading the climate change message

  • Climate denier : US Senator James Inhofe

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 8, the US

    It's time to talk about one of the biggest players in the climate change story, the US, and look at its climate denial movement

  • Divestment Day in London

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 7, Attacks

    This week we head outside the glass offices of the Guardian to hear what the outside world makes of the campaign

  • Global warming Banksy, Regent's Canal, Camden

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 6, Psychology

    Now it's time for the team to face the biggest challenge so far. Why do we find it so hard to care about climate change? We know it means worldwide chaos, rising sea levels and the possible end of civilisation but we find it easier to look away. Is there anything we can do about it? In this episode we call in psychologists, social scientists and artists to see if the Guardian campaign can succeed where journalism has, up till now, failed

  • A board at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street displays the Dow Jones final numbers on September 29 2008

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 5, Economics

    Larry Elliot, the Guardian's economics editor sets out to do something no economist has yet managed; to figure out the maths of keeping it in the ground. What would happen to the global economy and would we face a global recession?

  • A view of the information screens at the London Stock Exchange in the City of London.

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 4, Risks

    The climate change campaign has started. But is the Guardian prepared for what's ahead?

  • Tar Sands : Photos from a government scientist of the site of an oil spill in Cold Lake, Alta

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 3, The targets

    The Guardian has decided to campaign for divestment, and take their assets out of fossil fuel companies, but who should they choose to target?

  • Environmentalists rally in Boston to demand state legislators support a bill that would require divestment from the state's fossil fuel holdings, 26th February 2014.

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 2, An angle

    Alan Rusbridger is looking for a new way to tell the story of climate change - but what does that actually mean?

  • The biggest story in the world

    The biggest story in the world podcast

    Climate change is the biggest story journalism has never successfully told. The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has decided to change that. This podcast series follows Rusbridger and his team as they set out to find a new narrative on the greatest threat to humanity
  • Melting ice and dark snow due to pollution August 19th, 2014 near Ilulissat, Greenland, on August 19, 2014

    'Find a new way to tell the story' - how the Guardian launched its climate change campaign

  • A coal worker in Baicheng, China. The country is the world's biggest consumer of coal.

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 1, Keep it in the ground

  • The biggest story in the world podcast: Trailer

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