World Resources Institute Podcasts Plus

About World Resources Institute Podcasts Plus

"Big Ideas Into Action" is the relaunched podcast from the World Resources Institute, bringing you the big ideas that combat the world's most pressing environmental and developmental challenges. You'll hear the voices of those meeting the challenges on the ground across the globe and find out about the way we're finding the answers and translating them into action. We'll be podcasting in series of six to eight at a time, once a week, with occasional special episodes to add our insights and analysis in response to big events. The World Resources Institute works around the globe to turn big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity, and human well-being. We focus on seven urgent global challenges that must be addressed to reduce poverty, grow economies and protect natural systems: climate change, energy, food, forests, water, cities, and the ocean.

Publisher

WRI's Big Ideas Into Action podcast

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Oct 2015

Latest episode

27 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

3 of 155 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   27 Feb 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Restoring India's Landscapes

   Anjali Koppala interviews Romit Sen and Siddharth Edake about nature-based solutions in India and how they can help address climate and biodiversity crises.

2. 

   7 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Nature-Based Solutions for Enhancing Climate Resilience: Data Drives Impact

   Paulina Villalpando, Fred Stolle, Dipak Zade, and Tapas Ranjan Chakrabotry examine how data collection on nature-based solutions attracts private sector investment and enhances climate resilience in Bangladesh and India in this interview episode.

3. 

   30 Oct 2024TRANSCRIPT

   ACT2025: what do climate-vulnerable countries want from COP29?

   What do the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries need global leaders to achieve at this year’s COP29 UN climate summit? Experts from the Allied for Climate Transformation by 2025 (ACT2025) consortium — a unique coalition amplifying the voices of climate-vulnerable countries in climate negotiations — discuss their hopes, ambitions and concerns going into this year's climate conference, and reflect on progress since COP28. Topics in this episode include the agreement in Baku on a new climate finance goal (NCQG), which will replace the $100 billion goal set in 2009, progress on addressing loss and damage, next-generation nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that are due early next year, and how to close the significant gaps that remain in finance for adaptation. With Gabrielle Swaby of WRI, Alejandra Lopez from Transforma, and Saqib Huq from the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD).

Inside a recent episode

Restoring India's Landscapes

Published 27 Feb 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] For example, developing water resources, practicing sustainable agriculture, conserving soil moisture, we are talking about agroforestry where we grow trees along the crops, or we are talking about silvo pasture where we are also going trees on pints and boundaries, along with grazing lands. […]

Who has been a guest on World Resources Institute Podcasts Plus

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Romit Sen
• Siddharth Edake
• Paulina Villalpando
• Fred Stolle
• Dipak Zade

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,227,414

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

51

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Books guests

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