Hi, I'm Olivia Rudgard, a reporter for Bloomberg Green. I'm currently working on a piece

about climate anxiety and I have a request for zero listeners. Climate change can cause stress, both

with people directly affected by it and for those concerned about its effects on others and

their future. If you're okay to share your experience of this, we would love to hear from you. Tell

us what makes you

worry, how your worries affect your life, and what helps you feel better. Take our short

survey. There's a link in the show notes. Thank you. Welcome to Zero. I'm Akshatrati. We now know

that this will be the hottest year ever recorded.

And we'll hit another high on greenhouse gas emissions.

The bad news is coming in thick and fast, which makes it easy to lose hope.

But that's why it's also important to recognize how much progress we have made despite many challenges.

That's the reason I wrote a book called Climate Capitalism. It tells the stories of solutions that are already working at scale around the world

and the challenges many people had to overcome to make them a reality.

My hope is that people will learn from those successes and deploy those solutions in other

places.

For this bonus episode of Zero, I'm going to read an extract from the book.

It's from chapter three titled The Winner.

It's also been published on Bloomberg.com.

The story charts the rise of the Chinese battery company C-A-T-L. It's a company you might never

have heard of, but over the last decade, it has grown to become the world's largest battery maker.

I hope you enjoy it, and if you'd like to read other stories of climate solutions in action,

you can order my book Climate Capitalism, which is out now. Thank you.

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