Climate Talks

Robyn Eckersley, Professor of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and David Karoly, Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne and previously Chief Research Scientist in the CSIRO Climate Science Centre, join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke in the first episode of Season 2 of Climate Talks. Topics discussed include what is COP27, what is the science, and what to expect in 2022 leading up to the conference.

In the final episode of this season of Climate Talks, hosts Cathy Oke and Jackie Peel speak with the show guests about what decisions were made in Glasgow, what opportunities were missed, and what are the implications of these outcomes for climate science, climate finance, and sustainable development.

In this special episode of Climate Talks, previous and new guests to the show bring listeners their Week 2 updates live from the corridors of COP26 in Glasgow.

In this special episode of Climate Talks, prior guests to the show bring listeners updates live from the corridors of COP26 in Glasgow. Lisa Cliff, Program Manager of Climate Action Network Australia and organiser of the Better Futures Forum, and Don Henry, Melbourne Enterprise Professor of Environmentalism, Melbourne Sustainable Society institute at the University of Melbourne - and Climate Talks guests from Episode 1 and 4 - provide their updates from week 1.

In this episode of Climate Talks, hosts Cathy Oke and Jackie Peel speak with the guests about the implications for health from decisions at COP26, the impact of COVID-19 on COP26 and the inequities it may expose, and the relationship between COVID-19 and climate.

Guests include Peter Doherty, Nobel Laureate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Kathryn Bowen, Professor of Environment, Climate, and Global Health in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and Deputy Director of Melbourne Climate Futures; and Don Henry, Melbourne Enterprise Professor of Environmentalism, Melbourne Sustainable Society institute - all University of Melbourne.

In this episode of Climate Talks, hosts Cathy Oke, Jackie Peel, and guests speak about what COP26 means for non-state actors, including cities, Indigenous Peoples, and youth. Guests include Yunus Arikan, Director of Global Advocacy at ICLEI, Dr Virginia Marshall, Executive Member of the Indigenous Peoples' Organisation-Australia, Inaugural Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University, and Alison Fong, Master of Urban Planning student at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Student-City Policy Innovation Team coordinated by the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate Change, Student Energy, and the Melbourne Centre for Cities.

In this episode of Climate Talks, hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke are joined by Margaret Young, Professor of Law, Brendan Wintle, Professor of Ecosystem and Forest Science, Alexei Trundle, Research Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development, all at the University of Melbourne, and Stephen Minas, Associate Professor of Law at Peking University. Topics discussed include climate adaptation, climate finance, carbon markets, the relationship developments in the international climate regime and those in other environmental areas, particularly focused on the biodiversity crisis and ocean pollution and management. The poem is by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and available in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpNTe4zfBgs.

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.

In this special feature episode of Climate Talks, hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke discuss the newly released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 report. The episode features highlights from a seminar about the report hosted by the Climate and Energy College at the University of Melbourne, with presentations from Associate Professor Malte Meinshausen and Zebedee Nicholls.

What is COP26 and why it is important? Which non-state actors are mobilising around COP26, and what role do non-state actors play in our climate future?

Join Prof Jackie Peel and Dr @cathyoke in conversation with special guests Prof @EckersleyRobyn and @Leese_rc @BetterFuturesAU in the first episode of Climate Talks: Journey to COP26' from #UniMelbClimateFutures and @networkedcities: https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/mcf/cop26/podcast-climate-talks