On this episode, we head to Ghana, a place which is fast losing one of the world’s most vital weapons against the climate crisis, trees. According to Global Forest Watch, from 2002 to 2021, Ghana lost 20% of its forest cover. Among those responsible, illegal miners. 

In the first part of the episode, reporter Elodie Toto travels to the West African country to better understand why illegal mining persists and what can be done to better protect forests.

Later, host John Sutter speaks with Pamela Coke-Hamilton the executive director of the International Trade Centre about the link between bolstering better paying jobs in the Global South and confronting the climate crisis.

Programming alert! For our final episode this season we are hosting a special live Twitter Spaces conversation with Katharine Wilkinson, one of the world's foremost activists on climate and a leader of the The All We Can Save Project, 

The free live Twitter Spaces event takes place Wednesday, March 8th at 3pm. Join the conversation here.

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