DIGGING DEEP with Gabrielle Walker: A Life in Climate

About this episode

Gabrielle Walker shares her journey in climate science and storytelling, discussing her experiences and insights on carbon removal.

This is a different kind of episode. Gabrielle Walker. You probably know her as a scientist, author, science communicator, co-founder of CUR8 and Rethinking Removals. She has spent three decades at the intersection of climate science and storytelling. Too much to confine to a 30 minute episode. Introducing our new series, Digging Deep, we kick off our special long-form conversation where Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme have the privilege to go beyond the usual format to go deeper into the person. How Gabrielle thinks, her lived experiences, and how it has shaped her work in carbon removal and beyond. The conversation moves from her earliest encounters with nature, through years as a science journalist at Nature and the BBC, multiple expeditions to Antarctica, and a career pivot from covering climate change to trying to solve it. Gabrielle reflects on what it means to hold doubt as a strength, how she has changed her mind on some of the biggest questions in CDR, and why she believes curiosity may be the most underrated skill in the field. The discussion also gets practical: what it actually takes to move corporate buyers toward carbon removal, why the narrative needs to shift, and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Eve Tamme, Sebastian Manhart

Guest: Gabrielle Walker

Topics covered

• climate science
• storytelling
• carbon removal
• science journalism
• corporate buyers
• market building

Keywords

• climate change
• science communication
• Antarctica
• carbon removal
• curiosity
• market solutions
• narrative shift

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CUR8, Rethinking Removals, Nature, BBC

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