Mark provides an account of the most recent report on the state of the climate crisis by the world's leading scientists.

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Mark chats with Caroline from the Climate Action Network, who talks about governmental climate accountability in the Canadian context and Bill C-12.

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Tracey and Mark discuss the emotional impacts of the climate emergency, and how to address them constructively to build mental health and resilience.

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Suha Jarrar died aged 30 earlier in July 2021. She had done vital research into the impacts of climate change on the Palestinian territories, the options for adaptation and the obstacles that result from the Israeli occupation. This is a repeat of a 2018 interview conducted by Mark and Dave.

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Brahm Enslin from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) describes their exciting set of proposals for the future of Canada Post - postal banking, internet, home check-ins, EV charging stations, greening of buildings and vehicles, and more - under the name of Delivering Community Power.

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The recent devastating heatwave over western Canada is clearly fuelled by the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We are facing an emergency. But what do we do to address the emergency? Mark discusses how we have succeeded in the past and how we can succeed again given the political will.

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If we as a world community are to keep climate change within manageable limits, we can't afford to start up any new coalmines, oilfields or gasfields, and some of the existing ones are already going to have to be stranded assets. How do we achieve the international cooperation to achieve that? Tzeporah Berman tells us in this episode about the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty initiative (https://fossilfueltreaty.org/), and the latest report to come from the initiative which shows what we can replace our fossil dependence with.

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Shareholders meetings voting for greater climate accountability in the most resistant oil megacorporations; governments being forced by legal action to bring their emissions targets and plans closer to what the science requires; and then the International Energy Agency states that any new oil well, gas well or coal mine would be incompatible with the science. What is happening in the world of the big fossil fuel corporations and their advocates?

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Claire Card offers a veterinarian's perspective on agriculture and the climate crisis.

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Part 2 of 2 of an interview with National Farmers' Union (NFU) researcher Darrin Qualman on agricultural policies that can help address climate impacts and boost farmers' fortunes.

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