FM4 Reality Check Podcast

COP28 is as controversial as it is crucial. A key meeting to ween the world off fossil-fuels taking place in a fossil fuel state. We hear of oil deal scandal engulfing the presidency, but also why the COP process remains vital, we hear about a "global stocktake" and how climate scientists exerience COPs. A special show from Fm4 Klimanews' Chris Cummins. Sendungshinweis: OKFM4, 29.11.2023, 17 Uhr

The Brazilian Cerrado savannah is vital to the planet. It's stores as much carbon as a rainforest, it hosts 5% of the world's biodiversity and it is the source of most of Brazil's water, making it a lifeline for the Amazon.

But it is being destroyed at a dizzying rate to grow the soybeans used as animal feed for the global meat and dairy industry. Chris Cummins has been to this threatened jewel.

Sendungshinweis: OKfm4 18.10.23 18uhr

Two years in Glasgow, world leaders pledged to end global deforestation by 2030. But the latest figures show that actually deforestation rates are not decreasing but are increasing!

The new Global Forest Watch An area of tropical forest the size of Switzerland was lost last year. That's 11 football pitches a minute.

Brazil is the worst area and there a battle is waging between forest defenders and organized crime. With Chris Cummins

Sendungshinweis Mo Show 30.07.23 8.15

A European plan to restore degraded ecosystems is under threat from right-wing lawmakers. Conservationists say it’s our last chance to avoid a catastrophic ecosystem collapse.

Sendungshinweis: OK Fm4 13.06.23 um 17.20

At least a third of global greenhouse emissions are linked to food production. At the same time we have depleted our soil so badly the UN is warning farming may be impossible in the future. Something has to radically change. Ecological economist Marc Buckley has an idea: Regenerative farming:

Sendungshinweis: FM4 Morning Show, 17.04.2023, 6 Uhr

Chloe Combi is author, Podcaster, Film-Director and researcher who has interviewed over 10,000 members of Gen Z + Gen A.

She says listening to young people is a window to the future, but you have to do it with respect and an open mind.

Sendungshinweis: 16.05.23 OKfm4 17uhr

Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk has campaigned for the release of illegally detained people has documented war crimes comitted in Ukraine, mostly by Russia troops. She tells Chris Cummins how an “accountability gap” means Russian forces believe they are beyond international law.

Sendungshinweis: Ok Fm4, 09.05.23 17.10

Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk has campaigned for the release of illegally detained people has documented war crimes comitted in Ukraine, mostly by Russia troops. She tells Chris Cummins how an “accountability gap” means Russian forces believe they are beyond international law.

Sendungshinweis: Ok Fm4, 09.05.23 17.10

They say to solve the climate crisis we will have to think “out of the box”. Well what about thinking beyond the planet? China, Japan, the US and Europe are racing to be the first to put giant solar farms in space and then to beam the renewable energy back down to Earth. It sounds like science fiction; but it could be science fact within a decade:

Chris Cummins chats to Sanjay Vijendran, who leads space-based solar project SOLARIS at the European Space Agency.

Sendungshinweis: OKfm4 28.04.2023 17.15

Thousands of people are out on the streets of Israel every week, protesting judicial reforms that veteran journalist and historian Tom Segev describes as a “right-wing putsch”. He tells fm4's Chris Cummins that Israeli democracy is in “unprecedented danger” and the new far-right security minister is a “ very dangerous” man who will make life much worse for Palestinians.

Sendungshinweis: OK Fm4 21.04.2023 17uhr