The Climate Action Show

Climate Action Radio Show February 7th 2022 Produced by Vivien Langford BANGLADESH - DR SALEEMUL HUQ    GUESTS: Professor Saleemul Huq - Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development Professor at the Independent University of Bangladesh.   Professor Chris Field - Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment   Disha Shetty - Indian Journalist with a focus on health in the changing climate   Mark Hertsgaard -  Executive Director of Covering Climate Now https://coveringclimatenow.org/about/

Produced & presented by Carly Dober Guests: Emma Bacon - Executive Director of Sweltering Cities Emma Bacon is the Executive Director of Sweltering Cities. Emma is an activist and campaigner passionate about sustainable and joyous cities for a world changed by a heating climate. Find out more: https://swelteringcities.org/(link is external) Song Lord Huron - Mine Forever Nato- Blockade IMARC Activist  Nato is an activist and campaigner against extractivism and mining who shares with us how to get involved with this year's Blockade IMARC January 31 in Melbourne, Australia. Find out more: https://blockadeimarc.com/(link is external) Song Le Youth- Acquiver Climate updates from Climate for Change https://www.climateforchange.org.au/ Divest https://www.marketforces.org.au/

TRANSITIONS FILM FESTIVAL : Now online. You can buy a ticket and then you have 72 hours to view the film Virtual 2021 – Transitions Film Festival(link is external) REQUIEM was an art event at the Paddington Reservoir. It was curated by Janet Laurence during the Sydney Festival.  Requiem - Sydney Festival GUESTS 1. Brittany App - Her film -"Where once there was water" looks at regenerative farming, building soil and the efforts of First Nations people in California to protect their rivers. One group's duty is to speak for the salmon and their quest takes them to New Zealand where they perform ceremonies with Maori water protectors. Where There Once Was Water | Where There Once Was Water & Oil & Water | Transitions Film Festival (eventive.org)(link is external) Her film is "A story about water. A song for the sacred in all of us. A documentary centered on solutions. Where There Once Was Water takes a look at the driest of places – California and the Southwest USA – and the deepest of spaces – our inner worlds. It presents an invitation to change our perspective and heal our relationship with water … one watershed, one meal, one raindrop, at a time."   2. Bruce Shillingsworth - Yaama Ngunna Baaka Corroboree Tour organiser , teacher and artist In 2019 Bruce took a convoy of city people to sit with the elders and meet the people of the Darling/baaka river. He invites us to develop a kinship with mother nature. Climate change seems to have made many people  more receptive to indigenous knowledge or is this a mirage? Climate action  means more than stopping coal and gas. It's about restoring water to the flood plains, rehydrating the soil and the plants which provide shelter. Much easier than reversing climate change would be preventing the water theft and mismanagement ;the speculation in water and hoarding  in privatre dams. This is a haunting talk inside an old water reservoir. Bruce told us not to worry about politicians. We must first get together and connect with the river and the land.We can all take action. His next Corroboree Tour will happen next year and he expects thousands. Bruce Shillingsworth - 2019 Corroboree Project - Yaama Ngunna Barka (Welcome to our River) - YouTube(link is external) (125) When the River Runs Dry - Australian Doco - 2019 - YouTube(link is external) “First Nations People Are Bearing the Brunt”: An Interview With Water Activist Bruce Shillingsworth (sydneycriminallawyers.com.au)(link is external)

Climate Action Show December 13th 2021 Produced by Vivien Langford TALKING TRILLIONS - CLIMATE FINANCE AT COP26 GUESTS FIONA REYNOLDS - CEO UNPRI- Principles of Reesponsible investment PRI podcasts | News & events | PRI (unpri.org) MELISSA KOWARA - EXTINCTION REBELLION -  INDONESIA NANCY TEMBO - MINISTER OF FORESTS AND RESOURCES IN THE GOVERMENT OF MALAWI NOAM CHOMSKY -  The Consequences of Capitalism with Noam Chomsky - YouTube Banksliding and CalPERSiflage - by Bill McKibben (substack.com) This article upholds divestment strategies as one of the best ways to stop the obfuscation and backsliding he now sees in the finance sector who signed up to the Global Financial Alliance for NET zero. RISHI SUNAK - CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER U.K. Cop26: Sunak pledges to 'rewire' global finance system for net zero - YouTube When the Tobacco lobbyists were excluded from health conferences there was a shift. How fast can we do the same for the fossils? Glasgow inundated by a flood of fossil fuel lobbyists - Climate & Capital Media (climateandcapitalmedia.com) Can we think our way forward to invest in India's transition instead of exporting more coal to them? Glasgow and the triple transition - Climate & Capital Media (climateandcapitalmedia.com)

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW DECEMBER 6TH 2021 Produced by Vivien Langford CLIMATE JUSTICE FOR FIRST NATIONS   The fall out from COP 26 means renewed determination to have a seat at the table and accountability to the people most affected. Meanwhile, despite 100 days of ceremony by the Wangan and Jagalingou people in the Galilee basin and going through all the formal channels, we are distressed that the Bravus- Carmichael mine continues to destroy. Elder Adrian Burruguba said  that  the area destroyed in December was " an ancient stone tool-making area that our people utilised for thousands of years," https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-07/bravus-carmichael-mine-cultural-heritage-concerns-dismissed/100679496 You can reach out to these water and land protectors if you see that they are the front line against the opening up of a massive coal basin, flying in the face of global necessity to stop emissions from coal oil and gas.  Watch the video first: https://wanganjagalingou.com.au/donate/ US bank BNY Mellon cuts ties with Adani’s Carmichael coalmine | Adani Group | The Guardian Showing the way forward we interview Karrina Nolan about the launch of the First Nations Clean Energy Network.  As one of their members, Tony Mc Avoy, a distinguished Native Title Silk says "Not only is  Australia failing to pull its weight internationally, but it's failing to ensure that the renewables boom is regulated in a manner that protects First Nations Rights and incentivises First Nations participation." We start with the resounding words of Barkindji Man Bruce Shillingsworth and the beautiful sounds of Samoan dancing. Then we hear about the Loss and damage negotiations in Glasgow with Siobhan Mc Donnel  and the youth voice at Cop 26 from Global Voices. You might also like to support the Pacific Calling Partnership.  https://www.erc.org.au/pcp   None of these people is giving up and neither should we. The centrepiece of this podcast is the Clean Energy way forward explained by Karrina Nolan. Let's not let the next boom create as much injustice and environmental damage as the last one. There are so many First Nations people around the world holding the line for all of us. No time for despair.     GUESTS: Nadina Dixon - Welcome to Gadigal country on global day of Climate Action Bruce Shillingsworth - Artist and leader of the Yaama Ngunna Baaka Corroboree project Erima Dahl - MUA moderator -  Workers for Climate Action Climate Warrior Mary Jane from Samoa Karrina Nolan - CEO of  First Nations Clean Energy Network Amelia  Goonerage, Emily Tammes & Bethany Shegog from Global Voices Siobhan Mc Donnel - Lead negotiator on Loss and Damage for Fiji at COP26 Mia Mottley - PM of Barbados "The site was an ancient stone tool-making area that our people utilised for thousands of years," elder Adrian Burragubba said.