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Climate Action Show
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Climate change - what's hot and what's not. Find out what is happening in community campaigns around the country, as well as the latest science and the solutions that are available now.
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SANTA MARTA - ECONOMIC & POLITICAL RESET
3d agoTap to summarizeCLIMATE ACTION SHOW25TH MAY 2026Produced by Vivien Langford SANTA MARTA - AN ECONOMIC & POLITICAL RESETHAS THE Fossil Fuel INDUSTRY ROBBED US OF OUR IMAGINATION? Guests:Louise Morris - THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE and participant at Santa Marta Conferenec in Colombia Emily Ghosh - Senior Scientist and the Program Director of the Equitable Transitions program at STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE and participant at Santa Marta. At Santa Marta in April the First International Conference on the fossil fuel transition happened. Only those states and communities willing to make the transition from fossil fuel dependendence were invited.This was a fresh start in the midst of an oil crisis holding the whole world to ransom.President Gustavo Petro said " We are already seeing wars, a desperate fight for resources like oil and a breakdown in internationmal law. We are heading towards barbarism as if there is no alternative. Global democracy is impossible if we stop the transition beyond fossil fuels.Susana Muhamad - Special Envoy for the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative and former Environment Minister of Colombia said "The fossil fuel industry had robbed us of our imagination" Today's programme reports on the transition that is happening and the pragmatic people there who are getting behind it. Louise Morris from Australia and Emily Ghosh from Canada were there. They attended sessions with Parliamentarians from around the world (but not from Australia) and top scientists who announced the creation of a new Global Energy Transition Panel, an international scientific body intended to advise policymakers on the energy transition.
Transcribe →Interview with Sarah Wilson about accepting oncoming complex systems collapse
1w agoTap to summarizeShae interviews Sarah Wilson about her recent book, I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World. Together, they explore Sarah’s journey from climate activism grounded in hope to a deeper acceptance that the world is undergoing irreversible change and that many of the systems we rely on are beginning to unravel.They discuss what we might do with and make of that acceptance, and how we might start to cultivate new and meaningful ways of living amid instability. https://sarahwilson.com/
Transcribe →Sea Shepherd Australia beach cleanup, Australian Conservation Foundation presentation on Australia's Safeguard Mechanism, and Murray Darling Basin Plan Review
2w agoTap to summarizeShae speaks to Sea Shepherd Australia spokesperson Grahame Lloyd about a recent beach cleanup in remote Cape York, which removed 12 tonnes of plastic pollution from a culturally significant coastline.Annika Reynolds from the Australian Conservation Foundation presents to the Climate for Change club about Australia's Safeguard Mechanism and its upcoming review. Priya from the Thursday Breakfast team chats with Craig Wilkins from the Murray-Darling Conservation Alliance about the Murray-Darling Basin Plan review.seashpherd.org.auclimateforchange.org.auacf.org.aumdca.org.au
Transcribe →SANTA MARTA.GOLDMAN PRIZE . VIGIL . MARCH IN MARCH . FLIGHT FREE.
3w agoTap to summarizeCLIMATE ACTION SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordMay 4th 2026IN THE DYING DAYS OF FOSSIL FUELSSANTA MARTA .GOLDMAN PRIZE . VIGIL . MARCH IN MARCH . FLIGHT FREE LIVING Guests: Speech from Yuvelis Morales Colombian Anti Fracking winner of the Green Nobel -Goldman Prize for EnvironmentalistsElizabeth Maddox reviewing George Saunder's novel VigilScott from Bob Brown Foundation at the Marc h in March (Sydney)Mark Carter - Flight Free Australia As it becomes increasingly ludicrous to depend on imported oil, coal and gas those states and organisations willing to pursue the transition met in Santa Marta Colombia. We hear the first news from the conference and inspiring words from Yuvelis Morales who was there. She said "Today I begin by prioritising life, the river and our dreams because every dream of peace is fished from the rivers of life"Colombia is just about the most dangerous place for someone to be an environmental activist. She says the Goldman prize "honours those who have suffered violence for defending their territory, water and life itself". They have "endured the horrors of war and still choose peace."
Transcribe →SANTA MARTA Episode 4. Prof Elisa Morgera and Laura Restrepo
Apr 20Tap to summarizeClimate Action ShowProduced by Vivien LangfordApril 20th 2026 Professor ELISA MORGERA U.N. SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE LAURA RESTREPO FROM CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK LATIN AMERICASANTA MARTA : Episode 4. In this forth episode about Santa Marta we speak to two real champions of climate action. Professor Elisa Morghera is a dynamic element in the UN system which often gets bogged down. Her report makes it imperative to defossilize our economies. Laura Restrepo is part of a great network of civil society groups all over Latin America trying to preserve rainforest, accelerate the transition to renewable energy and fend off first the fossil fuels and now the un- regulated critical minerals industry.As Laura in Colombia says "This is not about a loss of power. The transition is about a new way of understanding power. For us this is a profound act of courage. Elisa says :"Failure of a State to take appropriate action to protect the climate system from GHG emissions — including through hashtag#FossilFuel production, consumption, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies — may constitute an internationally wrongful act which is attributable to that State"Santa Marta is a game-changer for hashtag#HumanRights!Check out her brilliant report https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ahrc5942-imperative-defossilizing-our-economies-report-special
Transcribe →Australia's Unstable Fossil Fuel Dependancy
Apr 13Tap to summarizeTo get a better understanding on Australia’s unreliable fossil fuel dependency, we’ll be hearing from the Doctors for the Environment Australia’s Afterhours Webinar: Quitting Our Oil Dependency discussing the effects the fuel crises is having in agricultural, medical and renewable energy sectors. Dr Kate Wylie, Executive Director of DEA, hosts with guests Peter Holding from Farmers for Climate Action, Dr Kim Humphrey also part of DEA and Francis Vierboom from Rewiring Australia. Exploring the opportunity we have been presented with from this exposition to move to more reliable, cleaner renewable energy in Australia. If you would like to hear the rest of the Webinar you can go to YouTube and go to Doctors For the Environment Australia and go to the video: Quitting our Oil Dependency: Protecting our communities from global oil volatility for our healthYou can also learn more about DEA through their website, dea.org.au, where you can also find an open letter to Australian governments urging them to break out dependance on global oil and chose a healthier future. One of our Climate Action Show members, Antimony, ran into a few local activists outside of MP Sarah Witty’s office in Fitzroy, Melbourne, this last Friday, protesting Labour’s plan for coal and gas expansions. If you’re interested in getting involved they’ll be there every Friday, 12:30-1:30pm, and they love to have a coffee and chat about what they’re all about.
Transcribe →SANTA MARTA : WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME CANOE
Apr 6Tap to summarizeCLIMATE ACTION SHOWAPRIL 6TH 2026Produced by Vivien Langford WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME CANOE ON THE SEA SANTA MARTA Episode 3. Guests:Dr Simon Bradshaw - Greenpeace Australia COP 31 LeadThe Hon Chris Bowen - President of Negotiations COP31Bill Mc Kibben - on How Cuba , helped by China is standing up to the weaponisation of oil. Read by Actor Rosie Whiley https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/surviving-on-trumps-dangerous-planetCovering Climate Now Webinar answers 3CR Question."Has the current war has made the transition away from fossil fuels UNTHINKABLE?As over 45 countries and civil society groups prepare for the Santa Marta Conference in Colombia,we are in the middle of a hideous oil and gas crisis. Beyond the death and terror, the climate changing emissions of war should rattle our dependence on oil and gas.SANTA MARTA is the bravest venture creating a safe place for importers and exporters alike to work out HOW to reduce that dependence... together.In this show we hear Dr Simon Bradshaw speak of the Talanoa meetings he has had in the Pacific. What will be uppermost for them at the conference including the connection between plastic in the ocean and the climate changing petrochemical industry? He says the message from most meetings is "We are all in the same canoe".To inform yourself about the high ambition at Santa Marta this month check out https://transitionawayconference.com/ We will report more on it this month and in May. Colombia has set a great example to the fossil fuel exporters of the workPresident Gustavo Petro has actively sought to reduce Colombia's reliance on coal and oil by stopping new exploration permits, raising taxes on fossil fuel companies, and joining the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. He aims to transition to a cleaner economy, steering the state-owned oil company, Ecopetrol, toward renewable energy, despite concerns about economic impacts.Read Andreas Malm's article COLOMBIA against the FOSSIL FUEL AGE.https://jacobin.com/2025/08/colombia-fossil-fuels-climate-petro#:~:text=Given%20the%20global%20 David Rovics is writing brilliant lyrics for our time. Support him on Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/cw/davidrovicsHere's his song for Cuba under siege "Staving us for liberty"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCQrLWOVmJ4
Transcribe →Building an ecological identity in children
Mar 30Tap to summarizeShae discusses how to build an ecological identity in young children, so that children can grow up feeling a part of nature and not separate from it. She reads from an interview with Jan White – an early childhood educator in the UK – who outlines the importance of outdoor play and nature-based learning for young children. She interviews Sue Wiedermann – an early childhood educator in Victoria – about how our relationship to nature play in early childhood centres in Australia has changed over the years and how we might incorporate better outdoor learning into childcare.Published interview with Jan White: https://www.immeshmagazine.com/writings/meandering
Transcribe →Repeat: Climate Change and Mental Health
Mar 23Tap to summarizeProduced and presented by Carly Dober. I attended an incredible panel discussion that the Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA) facilitated.The panel shared their knowledge about the issues surrounding the topic, as well as the solutions that exist. The event was facilitated by CAHA President Dr Rebecca Patrick, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University.Panelists included:Dr Cybele Dey - Child & Adolescent PsychiatristTamara Cavenett - President, Australian Psychological SocietyAssociate Professor Fiona Charlson - NHMRC Research Fellow at the Queensland Centre of Mental Health Research and School of Public Health, University of QueenslandProfessor Alan Rosen - Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong; Brain and Mind Centre, University of SydneyCarol Ride - Founder and Acting Executive Director, Psychology for a Safe ClimateGeorgia Langmaid - Planetary Health Project Officer, Enliven VictoriaPlease ensure to check out their website https://www.caha.org.au/ And the report referenced during the discussion for more context- How Climate Change Affects Mental Health in Australia : https://www.dea.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Report-How-Climate-Change-Affects-Mental-Health-in-Australia-v3-1.pdf
Transcribe →Green Colonialism
Mar 9Tap to summarizeShae discusses green colonialism, what it is, how we see it in climate activism and the overall nuances that come with considering solutions to confront climate change and better ourselves as activists. To get a better understanding of this, Shae interviews Tiahni Adamson from Bush Heritage Australia.This show features music: Coming Home by Joey Leigh Wagtail and Cameleon by Ziggy Ramo. References Akama, J. S., Maingi, S. and Carmago, B. A. (2011) ‘Wildlife Conservation, Safari Tourism and the Role of Tourism Certification in Kenya: A Postcolonial Critique’, Tourism Recreation Research, 36(3)Bocarejo, D. and Ojeda, D. (2016) ‘Violence and Conservation: Beyond Unintended Consequences and Unfortunate Coincidences’, Geoforum, 69, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.11.001. Gilio-Whitaker, D. (2019) The Story We’ve Been Told About America’s National Parks Is Incomplete. Available at: https://time.com/5562258/indigenous-environmental-justice/ Jago, R. 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