The Understory - a podcast where nature restoration gets real

The case for restoring the world's forests and ecosystems has been made — repeatedly. The Understory is for everyone ready to ask what comes next: the practitioners, scientists, and builders working on the harder questions the main stages don't have room for.Every episode starts from a shared premise: the science, the economics, and the moral case for restoration have been made — repeatedly. The Understory is not interested in making that case again. It starts from where that conversation ends, and asks why restoration hasn't scaled, who's been blocking it, and what's actually working.

The Understory - a podcast where nature restoration gets real is a science podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 5 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  The Frontline Generation (Live from London Climate Action Week)

  Jul 1, 202644 minS0

  <p>Everyone agrees the climate movement needs young people, and everyone agrees the next generation will live with the consequences. So why do the rooms where the decisions get made still look the way they do?</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, recorded live at London Climate Action Week, hosts Dr. Sweta Chakraborty and Jad Daley dig into an uncomfortable irony — a gathering of tens of thousands convened to solve the climate crisis, where most of the people in the room are neither young nor from the communities most immediately at risk — and ask what the established movement keep...

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  The Frontline Generation (Live from London Climate Action Week)

  Jul 1, 202644 min

  Everyone agrees the climate movement needs young people, and everyone agrees the next generation will live with the consequences. So why do the rooms where the decisions get made still look the way they do? In this episode, recorded live at London Climate Action Week, hosts Dr. Sweta Chakraborty and Jad Daley dig into an uncomfortable irony — a gathering of tens of thousands convened to solve the climate crisis, where most of the people in the room are neither young nor from the communities most immediately at risk — and ask what the established movement keeps getting wrong. They're joined by two people who responded to that gap by building institutions to close it: Samrah Khan, who helps lead a nonprofit founded on the fact that roughly 90% of climate science is published in English while about 80% of the world doesn't speak it, and Zainab Bie, who advances unconditional cash transfers as a tool for climate justice — from a pilot paying young climate defenders in Tuvalu to a proposed South Pacific Climate Justice Fund. Guests: Samrah Khan — Chief of Staff, Climate Cardinals; a former conservation specialist (AmeriCorps / Climate Impact Corps) who helped grow the language-justice nonprofit from a $500 Google Doc into an organization that has translated more than four million words across 100+ languages. Zainab Bie — Asia Pacific Director, Equal Right, and co-founder of Impactship, a community of ~2,000 young changemakers across the Global South. An economist by training, she works on unconditional cash transfers and direct-access climate finance, with active projects in Tuvalu and Kenya.

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  Why Hasn't Reforestation Scaled? Bridging Community Stewardship and Corporate Capital

  Jun 5, 202654 minS0

  <p>Everyone agrees reforestation needs to scale, and everyone agrees private capital has to be part of the answer. So why is it still so hard? </p><p>In this episode, hosts Dr. Sweta Chakraborty and Jad Daley dig into the gap between what corporate buyers and investors require and what the communities actually stewarding the land can offer — and what it takes to build a bridge that works for both sides.</p><p>They're joined by two people who've spent careers closing that gap from opposite ends: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, who represents pastoralist and Indigenous communities in Africa's Sahel, an...

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  Why Hasn't Reforestation Scaled? Bridging Community Stewardship and Corporate Capital

  Jun 5, 202654 min

  Everyone agrees reforestation needs to scale, and everyone agrees private capital has to be part of the answer. So why is it still so hard? In this episode, hosts Dr. Sweta Chakraborty and Jad Daley dig into the gap between what corporate buyers and investors require and what the communities actually stewarding the land can offer — and what it takes to build a bridge that works for both sides. They're joined by two people who've spent careers closing that gap from opposite ends: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, who represents pastoralist and Indigenous communities in Africa's Sahel, and Christine Cadigan, who built a program making U.S. carbon markets accessible to small family forest owners. The conversation gets specific — aggregation, contract length, property rights, permanence risk, and where the money actually goes (Hindou notes that less than 7% of the $1.7B pledged to Indigenous peoples at COP26 reached communities). It ends with a live agreement to pilot something together. Hosts Dr. Sweta Chakraborty — CEO, North America, We Don't Have Time Jad Daley — President, Terraformation Guests Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim — Co-chair, International Indigenous Peoples' Forum on Climate Change; founder of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad. A Mbororo pastoralist, she works on participatory 3D mapping, Indigenous knowledge, and direct-access climate finance. Christine Cadigan — EVP of Carbon Origination, American Forest Foundation; architect of the Family Forest Carbon Program and herself a family forest owner.

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  Climate, Biodiversity, Communities — Do We Have to Choose? (Live from EarthX)

  May 8, 202656 minS0

  <p>Earth Day started in 1970 with twenty million Americans, a bipartisan coalition, and no carbon agenda. It gave us the EPA, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act. So why does it feel like the environmental movement has spent the last two decades narrowing — not expanding?</p><p>Recorded live at EarthX in Dallas on Earth Day 2026, this episode brings together some of the most credible voices in American conservation to ask the question most people in this space won't say out loud: has the obsession with carbon as the single metric for nature been holding us back?</p><p>...

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