Welcome to the second season of “The Climate Bridge Podcast”, adelphi’s and Polis180’s podcast series. This podcast, like the Transatlantic Climate Bridge initiative behind it, focuses on climate change and climate policy in Germany, the United States and Canada. A key goal of both the initiative and this podcast is to improve climate cooperation between the three countries. In pursuit of this goal, Season 2 welcomes great guests and insightful topics on, among others, the upcoming COP28 or the transatlantic implications of US Inflation Reduction Act.

About this episode

The final episode of season 2 of the Climate Bridge Podcast dives into to the TCBs bread and butter – Transatlantic subnational climate policy. Our hosts Toby Bernstein – adelphi – and Lena Krois – Polis180 – sit down with State Representative Tobias Schlingensiepen (D), of Kansas’ 55th District. Toby, Lena, and Tobias chat about Tobias’ participation in a recent study tour to Germany, state-level climate and environmental policy in Kansas, and post-apocalyptic movies.
To learn more about the study tour click here. Tobias and Toby also discussed the United States’ Hydrogen Hubs – more information here. The movie Tobias references is the 1983 film ‘The Day After’.

Guest: Tobias Schlingensiepen

Hosts: Toby Bernstein and Lena Krois

Producers: Toby Bernstein, Lena Krois, Melisa Özcelik

Mixing and post-production: Franz Classe

Music: Maximilian Below