Rentaikan

Thank you for listening to the first episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional). This episode is the second in a three part series on how climate change affects human rights, and will focus on how climate change impacts actual people. To do this, we spoke to Marinel Sumook Ubaldo, a Filipina human rights and climate change activist who is known for testifying at the Philippines Commission on Human Rights in New York, organizing the first Philippines climate strike and addressing the Paris Climate Conference in 2015. 
This podcast is also a supplementary resource for the online discussion panel we held on May 17th entitled ‘Freedom Toast Café: How Does Climate Change Impact Human Rights?’. which Marinel was a panelist at with Professor Masao Takano from the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences at Nagoya University. 

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■Melbourne's air quality 'worst in the world' as bushfires continue to burn across Victoria
□Climate crisis cutting short Australia's winters and extending summers
■Overcoming Australia's black summer
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■ Climate change forces cognac makers to consider other grape varieties
□ Hunger and Climate Change
■ What has Climate Crisis Got to Do with Human Rights?
□ Human Rights Hearing: Emotional Testimony, No Oil Industry Response
■ W4R 2019: Philippines – Marinel Sumook Ubaldo – Long Version (Audio from this YouTube video was used in the recording of this podcast)

Thank you for listening to the first episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional). This episode is the first in a three part series on how climate change affects human rights, and will focus on how climate change and human rights have become linked over the last 30 years. To do this, we spoke to Dr. Evan Gach, an environmental activist and academic from Nagoya University. 
 This podcast is also a supplementary resource for an online discussion panel we will be holding on May 17th from 18:00 Japanese time entitled ‘Freedom Toast Café: How Does Climate Change Impact Human Rights?’. Joining us for this event will be global human rights and climate change campaigner Marinel Sumook Ubaldo, as well as Professor Masao Takano from the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences at Nagoya University. To join us, please click one of the links below:

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□Links to Dr. Gach’s research: Normative Shifts in the Global Conception of Climate Change: The Growth of Climate Justice Social Sciences, January 13, 2019
■COVID-19 is nature’s wakeup call to complacent civilization by George Monbiot, The Guardian, March 25, 2020
□In strongest climate ruling yet, Dutch court orders leaders to take action by John Schwartz, New York Times, December 20, 2019
■People urgently fleeing climate crisis cannot be sent home, UN rules BBC News, January 20, 2020
□International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
■International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights