Climate Talks

Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the Discipline of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Omnia El Omrani, the COP27 President Envoy on Youth, and Kathryn Bowen the Deputy Director of Melbourne Climate Futures and Professor of Environment, Climate & Global Health join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke in the 9th episode of Season 2 of Climate Talks to provide some of their best guesses for the outcomes of COP27.

Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.

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In the second episode of the City Climate Innovation: Special episodes of the Climate Talks Podcast ‘Networked and Innovative Cities’, special guests Maryke van Staden, Director of Business Development, the carbonn Climate Center, and Interim Head of Climate Action at ICLEI World Secretariat, Jean-Baptiste Buffet, Head of Global Policy and Advocacy at United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and Rachel Huxley, Director of Knowledge and Learning at C40 Cities, join hosts Ben Jance, Cathy Oke, and Andy Deacon to discuss the importance of networking and innovation for city climate action - and key activities in the lead up to COP27 from major city networks.

You can hear the clip at the beginning of the episode in full here.

The theme music is by Music for a Warming World.

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The GCoM Global Secretariat is grateful for the support of the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities in the production of City Climate Innovation: Special episodes of the ClimateTalks Podcast, produced by the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.

The guests joining us in the 8th episode of Season 2 of Climate Talks are Virginia Marshall, practising lawyer and the Inaugural Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow with the Australian National University, Yunus Arikan, Director of Global Advocacy at the ICLEI World Secretariat, Lisa Cliff, Program Director for Better Futures Australia, and Megan Tran, Youth Coordinator for Student Energy. These guests join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke to talk about the different stakeholders that attend COP and what they are looking to achieve from COP27 this year.

The clip at the beginning of the episode is Ambassador Mohamed Ibrahim Nasr of Egypt speaking on the priorities for COP27.

You can hear the clip in full here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xFlesIHrOMw

Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.

Subscribe to Climate Talks on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or here:

https://anchor.fm/climate-talks

In this first episode of the City Climate Innovation: Special episodes of the ClimateTalks Podcast - Cities on a Mission- we shed light on the critical need for urban research and innovation, kicking off with GCoM Research and Innovation Technical Working Group co-chair Valentina Palermo, Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) who shares what urban practitioners are saying through the lens of the City Research and Innovation Agenda (CRIA) and the Global Research and Action Agenda (GRAA) -  two key outcomes from the Innovate4Cities 2021 Conference, launched and discussed at ICLEI World Congress 2021-2022.

Coming  from the Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh, USA we also have Rosalinde van der Vlies, Director of the Clean Planet Directorate in the European Commission's DG for Research and Innovation and Mission Innovation Vice Chair, and Giorgia Rambelli, Director of the Urban Transitions Mission - unpacking the Mission Innovation Urban Transitions Mission (UTM), a joint effort that aims to mobilize cities worldwide to advance their climate action planning, increase their ambition and implement systemic and innovative approaches to a net-zero, resilient, and people-centered urban future. They will go in more detail on what UTM will bring to the stage and its priorities for the first year. These guests join hosts Ben Jance, Cathy Oke, and Andy Deacon.

You can hear the clip in full here.

The theme music is by Music for a Warming World.

Follow the City Climate Innovation podcast series by subscribing to the ClimateTalks podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or where you listen to your podcasts.

Alex Scott, Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics Programme Leader at E3G, Tony Wood, Energy program director at the Grattan Institute, and Rebekkah Markey-Towler from Melbourne Climate Futures and a former producer of this podcast, join host Cathy Oke and guest host Don Henry in the 7th of Season 2 of Climate Talks. Topics discussed include how the energy crisis and the war in Ukraine might impact on the climate negotiations ahead of COP27. This episode also considers fair share in relation to the climate negotiations and the potential consequences if countries fail to fulfill their climate targets.

The clip at the beginning of the episode features Mr. Simon Stiell, the newly appointed UNFCCC Executive Secretary.

You can hear the clip in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pieeKvY3qsA

Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.

Subscribe to Climate Talks on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or here:

https://anchor.fm/climate-talks

The Australian and Pacific Climate Change Litigation database records cases on issues of climate change in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: https://law.app.unimelb.edu.au/climate-change/

Prof Sarah Bell, City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation at the University of Melbourne, Dr Kate Strachan, Manager of Climate Change Resilience at ICLEI Africa, and Dr Janine Felson, Enterprise Fellow at Melbourne Climate Futures at the University of Melbourne, join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke in the sixth episode of Season 2 of Climate Talks to discuss what we mean when we talk about resilience.

The clip at the beginning of the episode is from Debra Roberts, Co-Chair of the IPCC’s Working Group II Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

You can hear the clip in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E1hDTRH9_U

Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.

Subscribe to Climate Talks on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or here: https://anchor.fm/climate-talks