Human-induced climate change is impacting Earth’s global systems, including ice melt in Antarctica. What is the world doing to combat it? Signed in 2016, the Paris Agreement is the current global plan to tackle it. Countries pledge different emission reduction targets and then produce their workings and homework about how they are going about it. Where does New Zealand fit in? Are we doing our bit as a nation? And should we be bothering with individual actions or is that simply a bait-and-switch tactic by those who want to delay real change?

Guests:

• Eloise Gibson, RNZ climate correspondent
• Dr Jess Berentson-Saw, Director of Narrative Research and Strategy, The Workshop 

Learn more:

• Read Eloise’s recent analysis about New Zealand’s international climate targets, or listen to this episode of The Detail.
• Eloise has also recently fact checked Winston Peters on climate accord, reported on our 2035 Paris Agreement target, and delved into the recent uptake of solar demand in New Zealand.
• The Climate Action Tracker website keeps tabs on the targets and pledges of different countries and monitors whether they are on track to keep the world below 2 °C of warming (compared to pre-industrial temperatures).
• The Workshop have published a cheat sheet on ‘How to talk about climate change’.

This series was made with travel support from the Antarctica New Zealand Community Engagement Programme.

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