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Tim Sahay and Kate Mackenzie on how geopolitics has been driving a quiet revolution in clean tech, and how the energy transition is in turn reshaping world power.
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weekly
Average audio length:
26 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
17 episodes
since March 6, 2026
episodic
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Is the UAE's departure from OPEC mostly about Gulf geopolitics and kings defending their regimes, or the outlook for oil demand? There is, as ever, a lot of context required to answer this question.
Hosted by energy and climate finance expert Kate Mackenzie, and Tim Sahay from the Net Zero Ind…
In this first bonus episode, we discuss why the Middle East war is accelerating the destruction of demand for fossil fuels, and why the US won’t become the new provider of "geopolitically secure” oil and gas.
We also argue about whether the data is sufficient – *yet* – to prove our point that …
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