The Climate Briefing: Unicorns vs workhorses

Ruth Townend talks to Gwynne Dyer and Dr Daniel Quiggin about climate solutions from the magical to the mundane.

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Published 13 February 2024

Updated 17 July 2025 — 35 minute listen

Ruth Townend is joined in the studio by Gwynne Dyer, author of Climate Wars, and Chatham House’s own Dr Daniel Quiggin to talk about climate solutions from the magical to the mundane. For his forthcoming book Intervention Earth, Dyer has spoken with more than 50 thinkers, innovators and engineers about how we might cool the planet and avoid catastrophe.

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