Alasdair speaks to former politician and French investigating magistrate Eva Joly about corporate corruption, tax evasion, and how these issues relate to the climate crisis.

They reflect on her investigation into financial corruption at the French oil giant Elf Aquitaine, and her current campaign work with the International Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT).

Further reading:

• Tax Wars, ICRICT
• 'Global minimum tax on multinationals goes live to raise up to $220bn', Financial Times, 2024
• 'McDonald’s to pay more than €1B to settle French tax case', Politico, 2022
• It is time for a global asset registry to tackle hidden wealth, ICRICT, 2022
• 'L`affaire Elf en résumé', Challenges, 2007

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Ed speaks to Brett Christophers about his new book The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet.

Brett Christophers is a professor of human geography at Uppsala University’s Institute for Housing and Urban Research and the author of four books on economic geography and political economy.

Brett and Ed discuss the commodification of electricity, the role of the state in renewable energy projects and why markets can’t be relied on to decarbonise the energy sector.

The Price is Wrong was published in February and is available to buy from Verso books here.

Audio engineering by Vasko Kostovski.

Further listening:

• 'Are markets the right tool for decarbonizing electricity?', Volts, 2024
• 'Everything You’re Told About Green Capitalism Is Wrong', Novara Media, 2024

Further reading:

• 'Antimarket', London Review of Books, 2024
• 'The Price is Wrong - Brett Christophers on saving the planet', Financial Times, 2024

Other books by Brett:

• Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World, 2023
• Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?, 2020
• The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain, 2018

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Few countries have specific targets about converting to organic farming, and when they have, it's often failed - Sri Lanka dropped its national organic policy within months in 2021, and only three weeks ago, France scrapped its relatively conservative ambition for 15% of farmland.

Bhutan may be small, but on this issue it's a global outlier. Motivated by its policy to measure development in Gross National Happiness rather than GDP, the South Asian nation has been slowly working towards becoming 100% organic since 2012 - and now has a target date of 2035.

Bertie spoke to Dr Sonam Tashi, an organic agriculture expert and Dean of Research & Industrial Linkages at the College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan, to hear about how Bhutan's organic transition is going.

Further reading:

• 'Bhutan's challenges and prospects in becoming a 100% organic country', Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung Asia Global Dialogue, 2022
• Case Studies of Successful Farmers, Agri-enterprises and Farmers' Groups and Cooperatives in Bhutan, 2022
• 'Farmers’ perception on transitioning to organic agriculture (OA) in Tsirang district, Bhutan', Research Journal of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, 2022
• 'Bridging the Gap between the Sustainable Development Goals and Happiness Metrics', International Journal of Community Well-Being, 2019
• 'Gross national happiness in Bhutan: the big idea from a tiny state that could change the world', The Guardian, 2012

Click here to read our investigation into the UK biomass supply chain, or watch a clip from the BBC Newsnight documentary.