2025 is once again predicted to be one of the hottest years on record.

Climate change has seen high temperatures, drought conditions and forest fires flaring up across the globe. Elsewhere flash floods and huge storms are destroying the landscape.

So as countries like the United States roll back on environmental laws, who's now taking charge of the fight to save the planet? And where is new technology being developed to tackle extreme weather?

To find out, on this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann is joined by Christine Loh, Chief Development Strategist at Institute for the Environment at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Arvea Marieni, Director of Ecological Transition Engineering Solutions at BEAM CUBE and an EU Climate Pact Ambassador; and the inventor of the Sponge City - Professor Yu Kongjian, Dean of Peking University's College of Architecture and Landscape.

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