EPISODE 24: How to talk about the climate crisis from the head of UN Climate Comms

In this special episode of News from a World in Flux, Clare Farrell is joined by Martina Donlon, Global Climate Communications lead for the United Nations. Clare and Martina discuss the challenges of climate communications in the current geopolitical situation and the role of climate movements in driving change.

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Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 23: What should we do next?

In Aug 2023 in Episode 1 of NFAWIF Clare and Charlie discussed Project 2025. Trump’s now been elected and is dismantling the US state and backtracking on all climate action, while in the UK, Labour has gone all in for growth over the environment. Banks and big businesses are rolling back their climate commitments, and FF companies are rolling back their renewables targets. We should be making serious progress by now, but instead we’re going backwards. So in this episode Clare and Charlie ask: where next for the climate movement?

References:

Gail Bradbrook Analysis
https://buymeacoffee.com/gailbradbrook/so-now-what

Humanity Project
https://humanityproject.uk/

XRUK strategy
https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2025/02/03/xruk-strategy-2025-26/

Climate populism
https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2025/02/its-time-for-climate-populism

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 Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 22: Unexpected warming, legal success, and how many will die

This time, Clare and Charlie cover a new scientific paper warning that global warming is accelerating, the bad framing of bats and newts vs growth, the legal cases brought against the government concerning new fossil fuel infrastructure and a report by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries into climate risks.

References:

New Hansen paper - global warming has accelerated 2C is dead
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2025.2434494
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/climate-change-target-of-2c-is-dead-says-renowned-climate-scientist

January was +1.75C
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/06/hottest-january-on-record-climate-scientists-global-temperatures-high

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries paper on climate risks
https://actuaries.org.uk/media-release/current-climate-policies-risk-catastrophic-societal-and-economic-impacts/ 

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Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 21: Does protest work?
 
This time, Clare and Charlie look into studies that show the efficacy of protest.

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Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 20: Doom loops, missing clouds, and activist repression

This time, Clare and Charlie explore the 'doom loops' of climate change and geopolitical instability as coined by Laurie Laybourn and James Dyke, the connection between clouds and the recent pulse in global heating, and another report into the state of activist repression around the world.

References:
Doom Loops
https://theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-of-climate-change-and-geopolitical-instability-is-beginning-244705

Activist repression
https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/f/1182/files/2024/12/Criminalisation-and-Repression-of-Climate-and-Environmental-Protests.pdf

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EPISODE 19: Sustain Salone ft. Brima Conteh

In this episode Clare Farrell talks to founder of Sustain Salone, Brima Conteh about the Global South experience of the climate crisis via his work in Sierra Leone.

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 Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 18: What does 1.5 °C actually mean, carbon capture, and Labour's climate fail

This time, Clare and Charlie breakdown what is actually meant when people talk about exceeding 1.5 °C of global warming. They also touch on the problems associated with carbon capture and storage and why the Labour party are walking the same path as the Tories when it comes to climate.

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Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 17:  Is the deck stacked against the Biodiversity COP?

This time, Clare and Charlie discuss the other COP, which happens every 2 years and is focussed on biodiversity. COP16 takes place in Colombia this year.

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EPISODE 16: Upgrade Democracy Special

This time, Charlie is joined by Marijn Van De Geer from the Citzen's Assembly Working Group for a special episode from the Upgrade Democracy Action in Windsor. They discuss why our current political system is failing and how citizen's assemblies are the solution that is needed to address climate and ecological justice.

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Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 15: Insects, injunctions, and upgrading democracy

This time, Clare and Charlie discuss the worrying decline in insect populations and what that means, as well as the further suppression of climate activists by the use of private injunctions. Join Charlie, Clare, and the whole team at Upgrade Democracy 30th August - 1st September in Windsor.
https://extinctionrebellion.uk/upgrade-democracy/

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