Jonestown, Guyana: Paradise on Earth is a student-made podcast, written, recorded and narrated by a student at a News Decoder partner institution in Ghana.

Jonestown, Guyana: Paradise on Earth is a student-made podcast, written, recorded and narrated by a student at a News Decoder partner institution in Ghana.

Jonestown, Guyana: Paradise on Earth is a student-made podcast, written, recorded and narrated by a student at a News Decoder partner institution in Ghana.

Jonestown, Guyana: Paradise on Earth is a student-made podcast, written, recorded and narrated by a student at a News Decoder partner institution in Ghana.

In EYES on Climate, we speak with educators, climate experts, and storytellers about how we can best provide youth with the tools to face the future of our planet.

For this final episode of the podcast, we've brought in the very inspiring and magnetic Ada Lungu, founder of Volens Association in Romania, an organisation working with schools around the country to introduce projects in environmental storytelling and community development.

We met Ada at the EYES Educators' Workshop in Brussels in October 2025, where we presented the different aspects of the EYES program, from climate justice to the economics of climate change, to 14 educators from various European countries. We were lucky enough to have three educators from Romania, and one of them was Ada.

In this conversation we talked about the brilliant projects Ada and her team have introduced to schools all around the country, and how time and time again she sees these young people and their communities flourish. This episode is full of ideas and success stories.

Thank you for listening to EYES on Climate.

Hosted and produced by Amina McCauley, News Decoder.

The emotions around climate change felt by young people include not only fear and anxiety, but also hope, optimism, and care. Bénédicte Mouton from the Université Libre de Bruxelles prefers to call it climate sensitivity.

In her latest study, Eco-Emois, she surveyed hundreds of young people in French-speaking Belgium about climate anxiety and the associated emotions, actions, and effects on their life. She shares her findings and interpretations with us on this episode of EYES on Climate.

We've co-created a high school curriculum in climate storytelling, broken up into off-the-shelf, ready-to-teach units, that explore topics from climate justice to systemic change, and from planetary boundaries to human–nature connection. The data and concepts of each unit are activated by storytelling and journalism projects, getting your students out there and into the world.

You can find the curriculum on eyesonclimate.org and soon on news-decoder.com

EYES on Climate is a podcast about climate education, as part of the Empowering Youth through Environmental Storytelling (EYES) project. EYES is an Erasmus+ co-funded project by The Environment and Human Rights Academy, News Decoder, and the Young Educators European Association.

Host: Amina McCauley, News Decoder

EYES on Climate is a podcast about climate education, as part of the Empowering Youth through Environmental Storytelling (EYES) project. EYES is an Erasmus+ co-funded project by The Environment and Human Rights Academy, News Decoder, and the Young Educators European Association.

Host: Amina McCauley, News Decoder

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice unanimously affirmed that the commitments from states at yearly COPs are not just political in character – they are also legal.

States now have an obligation to prevent significant environmental harm and cooperate in good faith to protect the environment.These obligations are owed by all states to each other, even if they have not signed a treaty. The ICJ also framed the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a pre-condition of other human rights.

This all started in a classroom in 2019 in Vanuatu, where a group of students brought to the Pacific Islands Leaders Forum Meeting in Tuvalu their case of climate injustice, along with a proposed legal pathway.

Fast forward to 2023 - led by Vanuatu and building on the students’ idea, 130 United Nations member states co- sponsored a resolution to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This would mean that the ICJ would decide what nations’ obligations are for their climate change commitments and what the consequences are, should these obligations not be met.

But what does the advisory opinion mean, in practice? We sat down with climate lawyer Loes van Dijk, founder of Climate Court, to discuss how the advisory opinion will work going forward. We also discussed why understanding your legal rights, international law, and climate law is important for education, and how young people like the Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change, have the power to make a difference.

Anyone can produce and publish a podcast, but how? In this episode of EYES on Climate, we dive into how to produce climate stories for the ears.

We focus on the idea and storytelling side of climate podcasting. For a complete guide on how to make a podcast, listen to News Decoder’s WePod Guide to Audio Storytelling: https://news-decoder.com/wepod/

We spoke with Josie Colter, founder and director of Studio Goldstar, a podcast studio producing climate stories with a mission to make the climate conversation something everyone wants to be a part of. Josie told us where to find ideas, how best to tell a story about the climate, and why it’s possible for you to do this at home. The climate podcasts she produces include TedX London’s Climate Curious and HERO’s Climate Humans.

EYES on Climate is a podcast on how educators can and should teach climate change. We talk with experts in education, climate, and journalism, about how we can empower youth to activate their knowledge and create change through storytelling.

This podcast is co-produced by News Decoder and The Climate Academy. We are working together to develop an accessible, engaging, and thorough climate journalism curriculum for secondary schools all around the world. Our project, Empowering Youth through Environmental Storytelling, or EYES, is co-funded by the European Union.

If you have ideas or thoughts for EYES on Climate reach out to us at [email protected] and sign up to our newsletter here: https://tinyurl.com/bdhwhdwz

Hosted and produced by Amina McCauley, News Decoder

The power of storytelling in education is perhaps underappreciated. For this episode of EYES on Climate, we sat down with Emily Walker from EarthDay.org, and chatted about the mindset of the education system and where climate change should fit into the curriculum.

EYES on Climate is a podcast on how educators can and should teach climate change. We talk with experts in education, climate, and journalism, about how we can empower youth to activate their knowledge and create change through storytelling.

This podcast is co-produced by News Decoder and The Climate Academy. We are working together to develop an accessible, engaging, and thorough climate journalism curriculum for secondary schools all around the world. Our project, Empowering Youth through Environmental Storytelling, or EYES, is co-funded by the European Union.

If you have ideas or thoughts for EYES on Climate reach out to us at [email protected] and sign up to our newsletter here: https://tinyurl.com/bdhwhdwz

Hosted and produced by Amina McCauley, News Decoder

We went to the London Podcast Show 2024 and spoke to podcast industry professionals to get their Top Tips for young people and budding journalists getting into podcasting.