Climate Action Show

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW11th AprilProduced by Vivien LangfordSKILLING UP FOR THE RENEWABLE REVOLUTIONandNO MINING IN THE WATER CATCHMENTGuests:Antonio Guterres - Secretary General of the U.N. At the launch of the latest IPCC report  he said leaders in business, banking and government are fast tracking us to an unbelievable world of water shortages and disaster. He said Climate activists are portrayed as dangerous radicals but "the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels"On this show we bring you the voices of people who are getting us off that fast track.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8rlLaT8v4Q Kurt Johnson - Writer and researcher, asks industry insiders how easy it is to find the specialised and general labour to drive the renewable energy transition.He finds they are struggling."With an estimated $66 billion to be invested in renewable energy over the next 10 to 15 years, and a further $27 billion in rooftop solar and battery storage, the money and the ambition for a revolution are there, yet the risk of being unable to find workers may threaten the entire venture’s viability." https://reneweconomy.com.au/could-a-skills-shortage-stall-the-renewable-energy-revolution/  Sharon Pursell  - Community campaigner for Protect our Water Alliance in Wollongong NSWShe tells us that in Germany  there are people employed to keep the water out of old mines. They call it a "perpetual" cost. So why are we paying public money to subsidise new coal and gas projects?https://protectourwateralliance.org/The four active coal mines that dig beneath the catchment cause irreversible damage to creeks, rivers, and endangered upland swamps. This not only reduces the quality and quantity of water we need to drink, but ruins critical ecosystems and cultural heritage sites. The coal adds to the rising global emissions whether we burn it or export it.Watch the videohttps://www.facebook.com/protectourwateralliance/videos/238992334316017/ Fossil Fuel subsidies = $22,000 per minute according to The Australia Institute. Over $11 billion per year and rising since we have the gas led recovery. A small part of that is to rehabilitate old mines left behind by those who have made a profit. https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/P1198-Fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022-WEB.pdfhttps://reneweconomy.com.au/perverse-australian-fossil-fuel-subsidies-will-top-22000-a-minute-this-year/

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAPRIL 25TH 2022PRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORD NATURE BASED CLIMATE SOLUTIONS = INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS  THE FOREST AGREEMENT Episode 3 in series on COP26 AccountabilityGlasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use - UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC – Glasgow 2021 (ukcop26.org) GUESTSAMELIA GOONERAGE -  Guest interviewer and  youth delegate to COP 26 TISH KING - Torres Strait Islander from SEED MOB TIANA JAKICEVICH -  Maori youth representative at Cop 26 GIACOMO FEDELE - Swiss authority on Mangroves and adaptation to Climate change Conservation International. 3 myths about carbon offsets, busted (conservation.org) BRONSON GRISCOM - US scientist in Panama. He leads Conservation International Nature Based Solutions science team.Bronson Griscom (conservation.org MANDY KING - Australian Documentary film Maker, member  of the Order of East Timor for her contribution to their liberation. Where The Water Starts Official Trailer - Bing videoto get tickets for SYDNEY listeners https://fan-force.com/screenings/where-the-water-starts-dendy-cinema-newtown/ Only six months to go until COP 27 when we expect to see much more accountability for the pledges made to cut methane and deforestation. It is hard to get an overview but in this spirit we go to the Tortres Stae Islands, New Zealand, Panama and Belgium. A clear message comes through that indigenous people have a much deeper interest in preserving their mangroves, forests and livelihoods. It is not just about carbon sequestration for them. However, valuing the carbon in living forests as opposed to dead wood may tip the balance in  all our favour. The COP 26 signatories including Australia must be held accountable.On carbon credits:  "Research has repeatedly shown that land under stewardship of Indigenous peoples tends to have far better conservation outcomes — This is a powerful reason to strengthen, not weaken, Indigenous land rights. Also, saying that the only way forward for offsets is corporate control and that Indigenous peoples are going to suffer is problematic. How? This perspective depicts Indigenous peoples as helpless by diminishing their agency and autonomy. It’s also deeply cynical, implying that humanity has learned nothing from the entire history of the conservation movement and is doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.  The fact is, high-quality carbon offsets are necessarily built upon the full and informed participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities, who have much to gain from the financial and technical benefits that carbon offset projects can provide. A major feature — indeed, much of the point — of carbon offsets is restorative justice: a wholesale transfer of wealth aimed at rewarding those who protect nature for everyone’s benefit by acknowledging their control of their lands. " 3 myths about carbon offsets, busted (conservation.org)

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWAPRIL 4TH 2022 LISMORE FLOODS and  SCHOOL STRIKE 4 CLIMATE AT KIRRIBILLI Speaking from SS4CPhil Bradley - NSW Teachers 'FederationThomas Mayor - Maritime Union of AustraliaStudent from  Lismore - EllaStudent from Sydney - James Speaking from Lismore to The Juice Media's Giordano NanniSue Higginson - Former head of the Environmental Defenders Office and Lismore Local farmer.Like our forests we burnLIke our storms we rageLike our oceans we riseLike our planetWE FIGHT BACK With views of the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge thousands of school students gathered outside the Prime Minister's house. Ella, an 11 year old girl spoke about the Lismore floods which have made her a refugee for the moment. James spoke of his frustration with government  and  called on us to overthrow it to get change. Thomas Mayor from MUA spoke about the Uluru statement from the heart being ignored and how now the future adults of this country are being ignored. As a Zenadeth Kes man from the Torres Strait he knows the  real effects of our continued inaction.It was an energetic and ardent meeting strongly connecting  the profits made from fossil fuels with the devastation caused to people. #People before profits.In Sydney's Daily Telegraph for 25th March The IPA's Dr Bella D'Abrera called the strike "Outrageous"....." The National curriculum not only tells children that it's wrong to question climate change but it  also wants to turn them into left wing activists"....... "It's a damning indictment of our education system that children genuinely believe that Australian Government policy will make a difference to the world's climate".We also briefly hear from the court case Juliana v United States featured in the film "Youth V Gov. Renknowned Environmental lawyer Gus Speth says " This huge failure to rise to the moment, I think it's the greatest dereliction of civic duty in the history of the republic". Take note Sussan Ley. As I send this programme to community radio 3cr and Skid Row, a second huge emergency has been declared in the Northern Rivers of NSW, Lismore region. Instead of our show on the latest IPCC report, we are broadcasting, with permission, a brilliant interview which really takes you there.Sue Higginson, former head of the EDO is also a Lismore local and farmer. She is deeply aware of the connections between this devastation and the ongoing permits for coal oil and gas which turbo charge it. She tells about the heroism of this community which has a strong tradition of looking after each other. Sue comments on the DUTY ofCARE court case brought by young people against the minister for the environment.  Now Sue is going to the NSW Parliament to transform the laws. It is one of the rawest and best informed interviews you will hear and we thank Giordano and the Juice Media team. You can see their satirical Honest Government ad on the floods.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvFy2TuPDawand support them onwww.patreon.com/thejuicemedia Thomas Mayor's books https://www.hardiegrant.com/au/publishing/bookfinder/author/Thomas-Mayor?gclid=Cj0KCQjw_4-SBhCgARIsAAlegrUVqwqSH2E6T58ywK2Fsq3vp8k1jUy0lBO-B823z91cZg91k89757IaAtSoEALw_wcB

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAPRIL 25TH 2022Produced by : Vivien Langford and Amelia Goonerage  INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LEADING ON FOREST PROTECTION IN AOTEAROA, TORRES STRAIT, SURINAM AND AMAZONAS  GUESTSTish King - Seed Mob - Our Islands our Home.ACTION you can take: https://ourislandsourhome.com.au/send-a-postcard/ Tiana Jakicevich -  Advocate for Indigenous climate justice in Aotearoa New Zealand Giacomo Fedele - In Belgium - Conservation International Expert on climate adaptation and Mangroveshttps://www.conservation.org/blog/meet-a-scientist-to-adapt-to-climate-change-this-expert-looks-to-nature?utm_campaign=General&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&s_src=facebook&s_subsrc=General_2021Oct04 Bronson Griscom - In Panama - Conservation International Director of nature based climate solutions. https://www.conservation.org/press-releases/2019/08/26/conservation-international-names-bronson-griscom-senior-director-of-natural-climate-solutions

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWMARCH 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)Enquire about a screening - The Seeds of Vandana Shiva (vandanashivamovie.com) GEORGE WOODS -  Poet and Lock the Gates Alliance campaignerhttps://www.facebook.com/Lock.The.Gate.Alliance/ 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/   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.  ACTIONTo help flood affected people in the Lismore area of NSW 1. Lismore City Council - Flood Appeal Account - these donations are for the purpose of disaster recovery and community support and will be distributed to other organisations or persons for those organisations to use and distribute as needed. BSB: 062 565 Account: 10864633   2. RED CROSS FLOOD APPEAL – The Red Cross is committed to supporting the community through the next two years as we recover and rebuild. https://www.redcross.org.au/floodsappeal/   3. GIVIT – This platform specifically matches the need with the items being donated. It is recommended by Resilience NSW. https://www.givit.org.au/   4. Koori Mail has released a Go-Fund-Me for the Bundjalung communities and missions that have been effected by the recent floods. Please follow link for more details. Every dollar counts, no matter how small.  https://gofund.me/f2f61bd7

Climate Action Radio showProduced by Vivien LangfordMarch 14th 2022The best climate science you never heardThis is an edited  recording of the press briefing from Covering Climate Now and  Scientific American February 2nd 2022.It highlights a " little-known scientific development that carries paradigm-shifting implications for how people, especially young people, feel about the climate crisis and how governments and societies respond to it".The Best Climate Science You've Never Heard Of — Covering Climate Now We also hear responses to the recent IPCC report from Dr Kathryn Bowen and Dr Atul K Shah GuestsMichael Mann - Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State UniversityThe New Climate War | Book | Scribe PublicationsSaleemul Huq - Professor  at the Independent University Bangladesh Ten lessons on community-based adaptation | International Institute for Environment and Development (iied.org)Locally led adaptation: We can lead the world | The Daily StarMark Hertsgaard - Co-Founder of Covering Climate NowThe UN’s “Atlas of Human Suffering” Isn’t a One-Day Story — Covering Climate NowKathryn Bowen - Melbourne University Faculty of Medicine Deputy Director Melbourne Climate Futures - brief extract from a CAHA webinar about putting nature back at the core of our considerationsWomen leading the fight against climate change (unimelb.edu.au)Atul K Shah - University of London Professor of Economics - Brief Extract from an ARCC webinar about how Capitalism takes a chain saw to nature.

Produced & presented by Carly DoberGuests: Julia SymonsPsychologist in Naarm/Melbourne working in the field for 27 years & Mandy Halabi, psychologist in Gadigal Land/Sydney working as a psychologist for the last 4 years are both passionate about the field of ecopsychology, it's emergence in Australia, and how it might support action in the climate space. In our first conversation about ecopsychology, we talk about what it is, what it looks like in the therapuetic relationship, and what it looks overseas. Part 2 will be about the evidence for this modality. For more about Julia and her work, check out the below:https://www.jspsychology.com.au/ For more about Carly and her work, check out the below:https://enrichinglivespsychology.com.au/

Climate Action ShowFebruary 28th 2022Produced by Vivien Langford GREEN CLIMATE FUND AND TRANSITIONS FILM FESTIVALhttps://www.transitionsfilmfestival.com/program-2022/Guests Rita Leistner -  Director of TFF film Forest for the Trees. During this film " a forest is planted, a film is made but the logging goes on " We talk about the state of emergency in Canada and the lives of tree planters who sometimes become environmentalists.https://watch.eventive.org/transitionsfilmfestival2022/play/61b7341e71182600716daf57/61b1f66a108205004b6537e6 David Klammer -  Director of TFF film "Barricade" It's about the one year occupation of the Dannenrod Forest /  Winner of the Best Documentary at Snowdance film festival. We hear about the success of occupations such as at Hammerbach Forest where a coal mine has been stopped. Civil disobedience is hard in a capitalist society but  even defeats  build social capital and a new way of communicating to prepare us for the  future.https://watch.eventive.org/transitionsfilmfestival2022/play/61b730f35c1be500552be821/61b1f66a108205004b6537ec Dr Ruth Adler -  Former 3CR presenter and diplomat. She was the Australian Ambassador in Ireland and has served also in Brunei, Mexico and The Philippines. She is  now an  expert on the Green Climate Fund Her thesis is titled ‘Finance in the Paris Agreement climate regime: governance, legitimacy and prospects for justice’In this year of accountability we hear about how Canada and Germany are leading with a plan to deliver green finance to low income countries.https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2021/11/climate-finance-delivery-plan-co-led-by-canada-and-germany-highlighted-on-day-three-of-cop26.htmlWe talk about how the money must flow to local representatives and the difficulty for such people to have  a seat at the table. https://www.greenclimate.fund/projects Amelia Goonerage - Youth delegate to COP 26 and masters student at Melbourne University Music by Dee Yan Key. Song of the harp maidens/ Lied des Hafenmadchens Climate Activists  take note of how fossil fuel money may be buying attacks on democracy in Canada.https://www.theenergymix.com/2022/02/11/this-is-sedition-ottawa-insurrection-has-roots-in-pro-pipeline-pro-fossil-convoy/Good news from NSW The New South Wales (NSW) Government announced it would permanently end all offshore oil, gas and mineral mining in NSW waters. This means no more oil and gas rigs off the coast of Australia’s most populated state - FOREVER.Viv, this is a win for all ocean lovers, and the advocacy groups and communities who have rallied hard for years in a bid to protect their local marine ecosystems and avoid irreversible changes to the Earth’s climate.If this gets you excited, now’s the time to turn that energy into action!Message from Senator Peter Whish Wilson for the Greens

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWFEBRUARY 21ST 2022Produced by Vivien Langford M 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 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/  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-pledge-exposes-flaws-in-the-term-net-zero-170944 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 MixMethane 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-pledges-actionhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2295810-cop26-105-countries-pledge-to-cut-methane-emissions-by-30-per-cent/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00312-2BREAKING: Fossils Emit 70% More Methane than Governments Report: IEA Tracker - The Energy MixFeedback welcome to : [email protected]

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWPRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORDFEBRUARY  14th -  2022 "Don't Look up" - "What can I do Australia?" -  "Climate Crimes" GUESTSWhat can I do, Australia?Mark Spenser - Founder of  the Climactic collective for podcasters:Episodes | Climactic . He chats with   Psychologist Felicity Jefferson about finding a "sit spot "  to connect with nature. She explores deep ecology to help people get active on climate. It's a gentle conversation about the shift in consciousness needed so we reconnect with nature rather than ravaging  it.Climate Action | What Can I Do? Australia (whatcanidoaustralia.com.au)Serially Curious | So... what can I do? | Climactic Don't Look UpTom Ballard and Emerald Moon discuss film Don't Look up. Watch Don't Look Up | Netflix Official Site They enjoy the film's savaging of the media which blocks and trivialises  climate action. It is good to know the enemy but they worry about the film's portrayal of a  demoralised and disempowered  population. Our civilization is creating  the climate crisisis. Whether it is too big for us or not, we will never know if we think we have no agency.Their regular podcast is SERIOUS DANGERSerious Danger: 07: Don't Look Up At The Means-Tested RAT (feat. Qld Senate candidate Penny Allman-Payne) on Apple Podcasts Crimes against nature, Capitalism and global heatingJeff Sparrow - excerpts from his new book Crimes against Nature - ( Capitalism and global heating) Crimes Against Nature | Book | Scribe PublicationsQuote:"No matter the banner under which the war on the environment takes place, the perception of nature as entirely distinct and separate from human society reflects an historical disempowerment of the population, an original act of violence perpetrated on working people". This takes us full circle to Felicity Jefferson and her efforts to cure this disempowerment.MusicAlasdare King , Anthony Woolcott and Miguel Heatwole  who is an ardent environmentalist. Raise a cheer for him. He turns up with various choirs at all sorts of rallies and gatherings to give heart to those taking action. Through Bushes And Through Briars | Song Brother | Miguel Heatwole (bandcamp.com)