Climate Action Show

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordFebruary 20th 2023PACIFIC  PEACE  TALKS  DUNEDIN  NZ "NO ONE IS FREE 'TIL EVERYONE IS FREE " Father Walter Lini- First PM VanuatuINTERVIEWS AND SPEECHES FROM THE NUCLEAR  CONNECTIONS CONFERENCE AT OTAGO UNIVERSITY IN AOTEAROA NZ Speaker bios - Nuclear Connections (mailchimpsites.com) As Cyclone Gabrielle fuelled by  a marine heatwave,  brings more floods and damage to Auckland NZ, we watch anxiously in February 2023In November 2022, I was invited to a conference by climate activists in Otepoti Dunedin.Nuclear Connections Across Oceania (November 2022) | Te Ao O Rongomaraeroa (otago.ac.nz)  I wanted to hear about climate action from Pacific people. There are three interviews and a speech but honestly most of the people found it hard to focus on  climate action with the immediate problem of Fukushima waste water about to be discharged into their part of the world The Pacific. They are worried too about the militarisation of the Pacific through RIMPAC military exercises every two years which have a climate impact also. Behind this is a colonial mentality which is prepared to discount their lives and culture. The islands, which were coaling stations for  steam ships are now essential fuel  depots for a massive amount of trade. Some are still occupied like W.Papua or tied to the colonial powers like Tahiti. Supporting their struggles is something we can do to liberate them for climate action.Pacific Islands Forum and Japan deliver differing statements on plans to dump nuclear wastewater in ocean - ABC Pacific Report from Nic Mc Lellan February 9th 2023We Bleed Black & Red - YOUNGSOLWARA PACIFICTake Action (ourislandsourhome.com.au) Petition“My new home was a dream come true – then climate disaster struck” – Virginia, activist taking on Shell at sea - Greenpeace Aotearoa- DonateIn reality the climate action most needed is from countries like Australia, which are still profiting from the export of climate changing coal, oil and gas.N.Z Writer and Environmental Lawyer Teall Crossen had the  humility to say " New Zealand is stealing from the people of the Pacific. We are stealing their land, their homes, their water and possibly we may recolonise their future".GUESTS:Hinamoeura Cross from TahitiHinamoeura CROSS is a Polynesian woman.  Between 1966 and 1996, there were 193 nuclear tests in so-called French Polynesia. She refers to them as bombs as "test" hides the real meaning of what was unleashed.Since 1980, her family has been affected by thyroid cancer, first her great gradmother, grandmother, and in 1990 her aunty and her Mom. In 2000 her Aunty got a breast cancer also. In 2013, it was her turn: leukemia. In 2019, she spoke in front of the United Nations 4th Committee to denounce the nuclear legacy on her people. She shares the story of her family as an example of what thousands of Polynesian families face as a result of nuclear weapons. In June 2022, she was one of the two Polynesian invited to participate to the first Meeting of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna, Austria. In October 2022, she was in New York to to denounce France's nuclear legacy and its failure to address the disastrous health and environmental consequences. She realises that the nuclear fact in Polynesia is inseparable from colonial history. This is why she wishes to alert the international community to what is happening in her country. SHE SPOKE TO CLIMATE ACTION RADIO ABOUT THE DIFFICULTY OF DECOLONISING ONES MIND IN ORDER TO TAKE CLIAMET ACTION  Ronny Ato Buai Kareni from West PapuaRonny Kareni is a Canberra-based Free West Papua activist, musician, cultural diplomat and bilingual health educator. He graduated in diplomacy studies at the Australian National University, and a honorary fellow at the University of Wollongong West Papua Project. He is also the co-founder and collaborator of Rize of the Morning Star, a musical and cultural movement, and Pacific representative for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP).RONNY SPOKE TO THE CLIMATE ACTION SHOW ABOUT THE 3CR RADIO PROGRAMME "VOICES OF WEST PAPUA" ABOUT THE NEED FOR WEST PAPUA TO BE FREE SO THE CLIMATE ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SO SORELY NEEDED BY ALL OF US CAN BE STARTED. HE QUOTED FATHER WALYER LINI FROM VANUATU" nO ONE IS FREE UNTIL ALL OF US ARE FREE" WHICH WAS ECHOED THROUGH THE CONFERENCE AT OTAGO UNIVERSITY IN DUNEDIN /OTEPOTI NZ  Joy Lehuanani Enomoto from Hawai'iJoy Lehuanani Enomoto is a mixed Kānaka Maoli scholar, community organizer and visual artist,. She currently lives in Honolulu, Oʻahu and is the executive director for Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice, which focuses on demilitarizing and de-occupying Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.WE HEAR PART OF HER SPEACH ABOUT RIMPAC MILITARY EXERCISES WHICH HUGELY IMPACT THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND DEVASTATE CORAL REEFS TURTLES AND OCEAN LIFE.Her scholarship has been featured in several publications including Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs, Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi, Routledge Postcolonial Handbook & PostModern Culture Journal. Her artwork engages issues currently affecting the peoples of the Pacific and has been featured in the exhibitions “Inundation: Art & Climate Change in the Pacific”(2020) Mere Tuilau from FijiI am Mere Tuilau, an anti-nuclear advocate, human rights defender, facilitator and youth leader from Fiji.  I believe in the value of a people-centered approach to weave our struggles together on self-determination, socio-economic, climate change resistance and nuclear justice. In 2017, my role expanded to coordinating and strengthening the Youngsolwara Pacific movement — a regional movement made up of Pacific students, artists, poets, writers, academics and activists, who are passionate in safe-guarding our Oceans and self-determination.  In 2022, I initiated the forming of the Pacific Youth for TPNW and led the conversation on our collective implementation paper at the 1st Meeting of State Parties’ in Vienna. I am also involved with Youth for TPNW and Reverse the Trend Pacific.As stewards of the vast Pacific Ocean, I believe that we are called to safeguard, guide and determine our destiny, as well as to navigate our narratives until we the people of Oceania are fully free.. Mere contributed to the  “Pacific voices” session and “Stopping the wastewater discharge at TEPCO's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant” panel. She spoke to CLIMATE ACTION RADIO about climate activism in the Pacific. Read her poem  here"The elephant in the room Diplomacy….Diplomacy? Swallowing my mixed em(Ocean),I stood up and saidExcuse me, I need some air.With thoughts rushing,Anger rizing,Feet rushing,Soul hurting,Face blushing,Heartbeat accelerating,I burst into tears on my way through the hallwaysand into the bathroom to hide myself…..in the name of “diplomacy” What is relationship without principles?Without it’’s values?What is history without evidence ?What are humans without feelings ?What is hurt without its wound?What are lessons without learning?What are we, without each other? How can we  look at Britain, France and U.S in the eye and have historical amnesia?Or how can the devils empire look at us in the eye and say "For the Good of Mankind" ? Thoughts of my ancestors crying,Mother screaming in the delivery roomSisters dyingFathers blindBrothers displacedMy family in crisisMy emOcean drowning “Diplomacy” Not him, not her, not them, but us.US who carries the weight,the burden of proof,To prove the suffering,the biggest aggression of our lives. “Diplomacy”  Where our tears and sacrifices are being politicizedWhere Love is being testedWhere hearing is being testedWhere humanity is being tested “Diplomacy” Hear us in our rawest self.Hear us to hear our ancestors cry freelyHear us to let our generation live freelya future where we can dream freelyNa numa noqu Waitui. We look back to look forwardWe look back to pauseWe look back to set sailThe Ocean creates livesThe Ocean hubs livesAnd the Ocean is liveProtect our waitui.

Presented and produced by Carly Dober Guest: Julia Symons Julia is a psychologist and climate activist. I chat to her about the mental and emotional benefits to engaging in activism. Guest: Juliete LamontJuliete is a documentary maker and currently on the frontlines defending Bulga Forest in NSW.https://savebulgaforest.org/SONGS:  Arctic Monkeys- there better be a mirrorballFirst Biege- moon motion

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordFebruary 6th 2023 AOTEAROA/NZ  - Climate Action beyond Ardern When I visited New Zealand before Christmas I was enchanted by its beauty and the friendly welcoming spirit in Dunedin.  I met a regular listener to our podcast and several of the people who are taking constant climate action there. When I told them how impressed I was at the Ardern Labor Governments achievements they told me not to be so starry eyed, that there was a long way to go. In fact they are part of the civil society that made offshore oil drilling unacceptable. They stood up against Nuclear armed ships in their ports and I was invited to a Nuclear Free Pacific conference to meet Pacific Leaders (Those interview on February 13th)Like Australians, New Zealanders are lying down in front of coal trains and lobbying politicians. Indeed as Rosemary Penwarden said the only way you can catch a train the length of the South Island now is if you are a lump of coal. They want to restore passenger rail and get people out of cars. They want the sheer number of livestock to be reduced. Without Ardern's climate leadership on the international stage, NZ may go quiet for a while. They may want to consolidate the framework her government put in place with a  Climate Change Commission, established to advise and monitor progress to Zero Emissions. However, the generation that Ardern listened to will not be deterred.  The people  you will hear in this podcast  are the kind who will accelerate that process and I hope we will hear more from them.On The Global Stage, Jacinda Ardern Was a Climate Champion, But Victories Were Hard to Come by at Home - Inside Climate News GuestsRosemary Penwarden - Veteran Climate Campaigner - Keen listener to this podcast! -Activist for Stopping Oil drilling in Otago and Restoring Passenger Rail.All aboard for disruption | Otago Daily Times Online News (odt.co.nz)Oil Free Otago | People of Otago organising to prevent deep sea drilling off our coasts Jack Brazil -  Community Organiser - Conscientious objector to the Colonial Mindset - defender of Land back to Traditional custodians and ardent climate protector.(20+) Facebook Live | Facebook Stopping coal used by Powdered Milk Company  Jana Althea - From the School strike4 Climate generation.  Extinction Rebellion and Restore Passenger Rail. Home - Restore Passenger Rail Alva Feldmeier - Executive Director of 350.Aotearoa - 350 AOTEAROAHow can we accelerate the uptake of meaningful Climate Action (350.org.nz)Homegrown Energy (350.org.nz)Open Letter to Minister Nash and Minister Shaw (350.org.nz)

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOW- January 30th 2023First broadcast July 25th 2022Produced by Vivien Langford THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT REPORT "We are living like aliens in this country" Richard Swain  As the State of the Environment report says " caring for Country is far more than environmental management – it is caring for Country as if land and seas are kin." Richard Swain, who features in a film set in the Kosciusko National Park, says there is a real yearning among some Australians to be connected to country. He invites us all to care for country. One place to start is getting rid of feral horses on the NSW side of the Alpine Park Region. Victoria has made progress to protect the fragile Bogong high plains from feral horses whereas NSW protects them under the 2018 Wild Horses Heritage Act .  He is the Indigenous Ambassador for the Invasive Species Council.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhtc-pnUjUw&t=21s(link is external)https://www.riverguide.com.au/about.html(link is external)https://invasives.org.au/our-work/climate-change/ https://www.frontyardfilms.com.au/wherethewaterstarts/(link is external)https://reclaimkosci.org.au/Christine Milne is the other Ambassador for the Invasive Species Council as well as for the Global Greens. She is working for an integrated regional and global response to invasive species in the Asia Pacific area.She says the climate movement has been focussed on the Energy Transition with less attention to the biodiversity loss which is also driving emissions.https://invasives.org.au/how-to-help/take-action/stand-up-for-kosciuszko/ Peg Putt co ordinates the Forest Biomass and Climate working group. She tells us about the destruction of richly biodiverse forests in the US Southern States. The forestry Industry worth $300 Billion in the US is positioning itself as offering climate solutions through the burning of wood pellets for electricity. Environment groups accuse The Nature Conservancy of promoting this as a  "false climate solution".The European Union's 2020 climate and energy program classifies wood pellets as a carbon-neutral form of renewable energy, and European companies have invested billions to convert coal plants to plants that can burn wood pellets.Peg explains the whole of landscape solutions needed to prevent logging fro energy causing more destruction here. As the SOE says " Human activities associated with intensified land use over the past 250 years have substantially depleted soil organic carbon (Figure 21) and contributed to global climate change. Australia is listed as number 3 (behind China and the United States) among countries with the highest loss of soil organic carbonContact Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek. (02) 9379 [email protected](link sends e-mail)1. Ask her to delete wood pellets from the list of renewable enrgy sources allowed as offsets etc.2. Ask her to work with the NSW government to eradicate the invasive species in National Parks eg the wild horse in Kosciusko.Let us know her response.Contact us if you wish to speak on air about the State of the Environment report.https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/(link is external)https://grist.org/energy/logging-biomass-nature-conservancy/

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWJanuary 23rd 2023 First broadcast March 21st 2022PRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORD SEEDS , SOLIDARITY AND SEATS AT THE CLIMATE TABLE GUESTS CAMILLA BECKET - Film maker of The seeds of Vandana Shiva  SCREENING AT TFFThe Seeds of Vandana Shiva - A documentary film (vandanashivamovie.com)(link is external)Enquire about a screening - The Seeds of Vandana Shiva (vandanashivamovie.com)(link is external) GEORGE WOODS -  Poet and Lock the Gates Alliance campaignerhttps://www.facebook.com/Lock.The.Gate.Alliance/(link is external) TACK DANIELS - with AMELIA GOONERAGE  . A Maori perspective on negotiating. Keep our shared future front of mind. As people at the top flounder, local climate solutions can be found in farming, flood preparedness and at high level negotiations where indigenous perspectives are sidelined or misunderstood. It's urgent that we let local people and First Nations protectors lead the way in climate adaptation.  Vandana Shiva knew this when she paid attention to the Chipko women in India hugging trees to preserve forests. She listened again when village women gave her their diverse seeds to preserve resilience against the monoculture "seeds of suicide" from Monsanto.   George Woods knows this after decades campaigning against fossil fuels in the coal and gas regions of Australia. She says the social capital built up for example in the battles for Bentley, Bylong and Gloucester have created a love and solidarity that is now being tested by historic floods. Her poem voicing the flooding emotions we feel about coal's ongoing dominance  is in the  anthology - The Tide will Take it.:  https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/the-tide-will-take-it/(link is external)   Tack Daniels  in N.Z. knows this from a lifetime of high level negotiations. He talks to Amelia who was a youth delegate to COP26. His Maori perspective insists that indigenous people must retain control of their knowledge. He is confident that non-indigenous people can  learn a lot about power sharing and keeping the focus on our shared future.

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW January 16th 2023  First broadcast: August 1st 2022Produced by Vivien LangfordL I V I N G   W O N D E R S  &  MINISTER TANYA PLIBERSEK “I’m going to make a decision on any project that comes before me based on the information and the science that I have before me at the time…” Tanya Plibersek, Environment Minister . The Environment Minister’s decisions this year could shape the next thousand.   GuestsNgarigu woman Professor Jakelin Troy - Sydney University and Friend of The Living  Wonders Project. Meet the client - Living Wonders Christine Carlisle - President of The Environment Council of Central QueenslandHelp fund a landmark climate legal intervention #beforeitsgone | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising(link is external) Hollie Kerwin - Lawyer at Environmental Justice Australia Our living wonders - Living Wonders The LIVING  WONDERS website is a vault of information on the climate impact of 19 coal and gas projects. Proposals for these 19 projects are sitting on the desk of Tanya Plibersek, minister for Water and the environment.The dramatic question is HOW can she approve a new gas or coal project if she digs into this vault of living wonders and sees  the climate disruptions caused by more coal and gas?  A small group called The Environment Council of  Central Queensland has started a legal intervention under a rarely used section of the National Environment laws, to ask Tanya Plibersek to reconsider the 19 proposals. Through their lawyers at Environmental Justice Australia they have made it easy for the minister to access scientific research, much of it paid for by the Government. Environmental Justice Australia (envirojustice.org.au)Environment Council of Central Queensland at Queensland Conservation CouncilJakelin Troy | ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW  - SUMMER SEASONJANUARY 9th 2023. First broadcast February 2nd 2022Produced at Radio 3CR by Vivien LangfordM E T H A N E COP26:111 countries signed a pledge to slash methane by 30%. Australia didn't signMethane is bubbling up from the permafrost on land and sea. There is nothing we can do about that according to Dahr Jamail except slow the climate disruption which is melting the Arctic.In this season on accountability we look at the COP26 Methane pledgeGuestsUrsula von der Leyden - President of the European Comissionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgkwfWiH_ic(link is external) Dahr Jamail -The End of Ice - Author and winner of the Martha Gelhorn prize for investigative journalismhttps://theintercept.com/2019/05/04/climate-change-book-end-of-ice/(link is external)  Mark Howden -  interviewed by guest producer Amelia GoonerageDirector, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University. https://theconversation.com/australias-refusal-to-sign-a-global-methane-...(link is external) Music From dusk til dawn by Lapland Element orchestra A night with a midnight sun comes. The sun does not set under a horizon at all. Nature of a north polar region. The countless animals and plants which basked in the sun not setting shine in summer. Aurora covers the sky in the woods of silver frost in winter. People call it Lapland.According to the journal Nature  February 2022"The growth of methane emissions slowed around the turn of the millennium, but began a rapid and mysterious uptick around 2007. The spike has caused many researchers to worry that global warming is creating a feedback mechanism that will cause ever more methane to be released, making it even harder to rein in rising temperatures." ‘Dangerously Fast’ Methane Increase Suggests Feedback Mechanism May Have Begun - The Energy Mix(link is external)Methane emissions are rising dangerously fast. Methane  is a short lived gas but affects the climate many more times than CO2. In terms of climate action cutting methane in agriculture and the fossil fuel industry is  the low hanging fruit we need to cut down with urgency and determination. Canada committed to reducing oil and gas methane emissions by 75% by 2030. What could Australia do?.We are a gas producer, and here is an idea from the Centre for global developmentOil and gas producing countries could volunteer to apply remote sensing (satellite) technology to measure—and fiscal policies to disincentivize—methane emissions from wasteful gas flaring (following Nigeria’s example), and also volunteer to implement existing gas monetization technology (following the example of Norway). Egypt (COP 27 chair) and Indonesia (G20 chair) could take leadership roles in this initiative;  https://www.cgdev.org/blog/practical-proposal-methane-2022-climate-pledg...(link is external)https://www.newscientist.com/article/2295810-cop26-105-countries-pledge-...(link is external)https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00312-2(link is external)BREAKING: Fossils Emit 70% More Methane than Governments Report: IEA Tracker - The Energy Mix(link is external)Feedback welcome to : [email protected]

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWNOVEMBER 28TH 2022Produced by Vivien Langford PACIFIC ISLAND ELDERS -  ANOTE TONG  and TOMMY E. REMENGESAUCourtesy of Pacific Elders Voice, Edmund Rice Centre and The Australia Institute GuestsHis Excellency Former President of Kiribati - ANOTE TONGHis Excellency Former President of Palau - TOMMY E.REMENGESAU JnrIn conversation with Ebony Bennett and Richie Merzian at The Australia Institute 13/09/22

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW NOVEMBER 21st , 2022Produced by Vivien Langford THE MODERATE FLANK    and LOSS and  DAMAGEGuestsMark Hertsgaard from Covering Climate Now on Loss and Damage at COP27Interviews with Nicolas Haque in Senegal and Lagipoia Cherelle jackson from Samoa. Nick Breeze from Climate Genn  on "The Moderate Flank"Duscussion with professor Rupert read and  Culture Change Strategist Paddy Loughton

Produced & presented by Carly Dober   Webinar hosted by The Climate Council, facilitated by Dr Simon BradshawGuests: Dr Joëlle GergisShe is an internationally recognised expert in Australian and Southern Hemisphere climate variability and change who has authored over 100 scientific publications. Her research focuses on focuses on providing a long-term historical context for assessing recently observed climate variability and extremes.Between 2018 and 2021, Joëlle served as a lead author on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on the Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report – a global, state-of-the art review of climate change science.  https://www.joellegergis.com/ https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/