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CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAPRIL 21ST 2025Produced by Vivien Langford "YOU ARE NOT ALONE"This episode of the Climate Action Show is part of the 89%Project, an initiative of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. The idea is that although between 80 and 89% of people worldwide want more effective climate ACTION they do not know that they are the majority. At the National Press Club Lunchin April, Greens Leader Adam Bandt reassured voters concerned about the climate crisis, by repeating... "You are not alone." Knowing that we are the majority could create a social tipping point that motivates action.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y69TTh__Npw With the headlines predicting minority goverment after the coming election, we explore what a hung parliament might achieve taking the urgency of the 89% to those who want to keep business as usual. 1.We will hear extracts from Allegra Spender's Climate speech in Parliament in May Allegra urges the government to get off fossil fuels, to stop opening new coal and

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW APRIL 14th 2025Produced by Vivien LangfordKeeping the Ocean pristine andWhyalla Green Steel in Public Hands?  GuestsLisa Deppeler is a prominent figure associated with the OCEAN (Otway Coastal Environment Action Network) organization. She is particularly focused on stopping seismic blasting proposals off the coast. Lisa has been a key voice in raising public awareness about the potential impacts of seismic blasting on marine life, including whales and zooplankton. She has also been involved in organizing the "Great Ocean Rescue Tour" to inform people about the issues.  Renfrey Clarke is an Australian journalist, translator and left activist. Throughout the 1990s he reported from Moscow for Green Left Weekly,  His article about reviving the vision of Green Steel in Whyalla prompted this interview. His conclusion is that public ownership isthe best way forward."Profit margins for steel firms are mostly wafer thin, and a buyer for the plant will not be easily found. The chances seem high that

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAPRIL 7TH 2025VIOLET COCO - Portrait of an ActivistProduced by Vivien Langford Interview courtesy of  Tim Budge and Ruth Yateman at Seymour FM on BEAM Mitchell Environment Group's radio show EARTH CHAThttps://programs.seymourfm.com.au/earth-chat Featured Guest: Violet CocoYou may not know the name Violet Coco, but you would have seen her on the news, arrested for protesting in different places, all to highlight the precarious state of our planet. Violet is a passionate environment and social justice activist. She has been arrested 49 times in 6 years as a non-violent, direct action, change maker. She recently spent two months in prison.She was the first person sentenced under controversial new anti-protest laws in NSW, receiving a sentence of 18 months in prison for blocking the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a campaign which was supporting firefighters. Her sentence was dropped on appeal. Violet describes herself as a conscientious objector to the murder of our planet. Violet is an eloquent and

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWMARCH  24th 2025Produced by Vivien LangfordKUMI NAIDOO and PEOPLE'S CLIMATE COP at UTShttps://www.philanthropy.org.au/news-and-stories/an-australian-cop31-should-be-a-peoples-cop-with-community-at-its-core/  Guests Kumi Naidoo - Head of the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treatyhttps://fossilfueltreaty.org/australia-report-pr Professor Anne Poelina - Traditional custodian of the Martuwarra/Fitzroy River. Film Maker and Academichttps://www.100climateconversations.com/anne-poelina Tui Shortland - Director of  Te Kopu- Pacific Indigenous and Local Knowledge Centrehttps://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/protecting-worlds-biodiversity-tui-shortland Greg Mullins AO - Founder of the Eergency Leaders of Climate Action - Fire fighter and Member of the Climate Councilhttps://www.climatecouncil.org.au/2025-critical-climate-election/ David Crosbie - CEO of Community Council for Australiahttps://communitycouncil.com.au/2025/03/13/wheres-the-community-in-climate-action/ Al

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWProduced by Vivien Langford17th March 2025D O N ' T   B U R N   OUR   F U T U R E“The PM’s Climate Speech we’ve been waiting for” from the SLF 2025 Join climate activists Violet CoCo, David Spratt and Mark Carter to view and reflect on the speech — that we all want to hear. They ask the government to safeguard the wellbeing of all Australians by responding at emergency speed to an honest, evidence-based, risk-averse assessment of our climate predicament. The panellists will discuss what that response could actually look like, why it is now necessary, and how it can provide climate-concerned Australians — those now despairing at current, demonstrably ineffective, national climate policy and actions — with a future they can demand.Remember with an election coming up:Pick your battles, Don't go alone, The Time is Now! Music by  James Brook featuring Violet Coco "Peoples' uprisinghttps://jamesbrook.bandcamp.com/album/yandoitViolet Coco https://greenagenda.org.au/author/violet-coco HEADLINES sho

The fight against climate disinformation in the mediaby Hélène Goyat Interview with Eva Morel, co-founder of Quota Climat(Interview recorded on the 25/02/2025) During her role as parliamentary assistant in France, Eva Morel discovered the role media and journalists play in bringing climate issues to the political agenda. In 2022, she co-founded the organisation called Quota Climat, which works to improve media coverage of environmental topics through national, European, and international advocacy, outreach and data production.   “Our freedom of expression shouldn’t contradict our right to good information”, Eva Morel (E.M.), co-founder of Quota Climat.   “Climate change is a really particular and efficient topic to polarize opinion because it pushes on specific fears and values” (E.M.) "We know for example that people are afraid to lose their individual freedoms, so it is easy for people trying to polarize the debate to push on those specific topics, and this is what they are doing" (E.M.) "These actors are

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordMarch 3rd 2025C L I M A T E   M O R A L I T Y+ Focus on Papua New Guinea "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any". Alice Walker Polly Hemmings from The Australia Institute speaks at the Climate Integrity Summit.https://australiainstitute.org.au/expert/polly-hemming/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etR2MXInies MUSIC FOR A WARMING WORLD new album Only One way ahead by Simon Kerrhttps://www.musicforawarmingworld.org/ Dr Gianluca Grimalda in conversation with Nick Breeze at Zurich courtesy of Climate Genn.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYE-s5Oh85A Gianluca Grimalda, a climate change researcher, lost his job after he refused to fly back from fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. Gianluca has been “slow travelling” for decades. He thinks his former employer tried to make an example out of him because of his climate activism. It’s one of those stories that reveals the madness of the world—he was sent to research how vulnerable co

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWFebruary 17th 2025Produced by Vivien Langford C O L L I S I O N   C O U R S E  from The Sustainable Living Festival 2025 Guest speaker: David Spratt with Emily Rice from The Breakthrough Foundation “The very act of trying to look ahead and to discern possibilities and offer warnings is in itself an act of hope.” – writer Octavia Butler  This is  the idea which guides David Spratt's unflinching look at the collsion course we are on towards an unliveably climate changed world.This is an edited version of the talk he gave to the Sudstainable Lioving Festival on 11th February. The MC was Emily Rice from the Breakthrough Foundation. He desribes the tipping points and the unpredictability of the future unless we draw down current emissions.If Saudi Aramco says we should "abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas", we need to know how to push back, keeping in mind at least seven of the generations of all species that we hope will follow us.For the slides and full report : https://www.breakthr

Photo: Anne-Sophie Roux in August 2023 during the #LookDownNorway campaign in Norway (Sooo.magazine Fotograf Siv Sivertsen) Deep Sea Mining in 2025: A Critical Year for the Pacific | Marine Species on the Moveby Hélène Goyat Anne-Sophie Roux, Deep-Sea Mining Activist and Ocean scientist Our oceans plays a vital role in the regulation of our climate and harbor a whole world underneath their surface that we still know very little of. Anne-Sophie Roux explained why protecting these marine ecosystems is vital to our survival and how deep-sea mining could destroy habitats that are already so fragile and still largely unknown. Backed by scientific consensus, Anne-Sophie campaigns against deep-sea mining to raise awareness and spread the word on the disastrous consequences it would have for marine biodiversity, our climate and humanity.She emphasized the importance of individuals taking part in these campaings and the powerful impact that collective small actions have had in winning campaings against deep-sea mining

Climate Action Radio ShowProduced by Vivien LangfordMonday February 3rd 2025 Less Landfill Methane, More coal  Mines and Pacific Diplomacy GUESTSLeigh Naunton - Move Beyond Coal on the three new coal mines set to be approved by Tanya Plibersek ou Minister of the Environmenthttps://www.movebeyondcoal.com/labors_climate_betrayal Alopi Latukefu and Rosaline Parker - Edmund Rice Centre - Pacific Calling PartnershipMelting ice caps reveals the scourge of colonialismBy ‘Alopi Latukefu. Published on The Interpreter, a daily by The Lowy Institute. https://www.erc.org.au/melting_ice_caps_reveals_the_scourge_of_colonialism Florian Amlinger -  An agronomist and director of Compost – Consulting & Development (Austria)The COP29 Declaration on Reducing Methane from Organic Waste will push for national climate policies that set concrete targets to reduce methane from waste and food systems, aligning with the 1.5°C goal. Methane contributes to half a degree of current warming and has 80 times the warming effect of CO2 over 2

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWDECEMBER 16TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford NEWCASTLE 2024 PROTESTIVAL WITH RISING TIDE Recorded on the beach and at the Protestival village, you will hear voices from many climate action groups and concerned citizens.After a week of informative quiet and peacefulworkshops and a concert with Peter Garrett the Sunday morning opened on  a day of arrestable action in the shipping lanes of the greatest coal port in the world.I had sat throught the supreme court case weeks before, which only suceeded in making the event more newsworthy and risky. There was a lot of media there but I am not sure they will convey to you just how well informed, strategic and committed this diverse group is. You will hear:A 16 year old girl tearful about the cruel future we are creating. A 90 year old woman who kayaked out  fpour times into the shipping lanes and was disappointed that the police just kept towing her back.Sunday began with a Maori climate warrior taking us up a notch with the haka.Julie Fraser a un

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW -  DECEMBER 2ND 2024  Produced by Vivien Langford                         AZERBAIJAN - COP29  Guests:Michael Oyta - President of the Australian Azerbaijan Association Harjeet Singh - Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty https://cen.acs.org/environment/climate-change/Low-income-nations-slam-COP29/102/web/2024/11 Mia Mottley - Prime Minister of Barbados Antonio Guterres -  Secretary General of the United Nations As António Guterres,  “The world must pay up, or humanity will pay the price. Climate finance is not charity, it’s an investment.” Chandni Raina - Representative from the Indian Delegation - in the last session revealed the inequity of the finance deal. The banners outside said "Trillions not Billions.""This has been stage managed, and we are extremely, extremely disappointed with this incident" followed by joyful applause as the truth is spoken. https://thewire.in/environment/we-have-seen-what-you-have-done-india-accuses-cop29-presidency-un-of-stage-managing-decision https://www.the

 Climate Action Show Produced by Vivien LangfordNovember 18th 2024CLIMATE ACTION IN KOALA PARK  and NEWCASTLE COAL PORT Rising Tide Protestival Register now - https://www.risingtide.org.au/blockade-rego Rising Tide Protest organisers outside NSW Court this week- Photo Wendy Bacon at Michael West media Speakers at the Bob Brown Foundation Rally in Sydney to Protect Native ForestsMark Graham - "Our forest are our future. They keep us safe"Phil Zylstra - Associate Professor at Curtin University, and as Honorary Fellow at the University of Wollongong.Alex the Astronaut - https://www.youtube.com/c/AlextheAstronautKate Carol - National Parks association - Citizen ScienceEmily Mitchell   - Rising TideTO REGISTER - https://www.risingtide.org.au/blockade-regoThe courtcase : https://michaelwest.com.au/rising-tide-climate-protestival-to-go-ahead-despite-court-ruling/Little Green - https://littlegreenmusic.com/homeUncle Bruce Shillingsworth - https://www.facebook.com/mundagutta/Video: Bob Bown and Alexa Stuart :  From sa

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWProduced by Vivien Langford November 4th 2024WHAT  THE  HECK  PLIBERSEK! "It's wishful thinking that gas miraculously moves overseas without emissions".ROBERT HOWARTH - Famous Ecosysystem Scientist at Cornell University As the minister for the Environment and climate change Tania Plibersek approves new coal and gas projects these groups push back: Frack Free NT - Louis Boyle Bryant in an interview about Tamboran Resources and the Beetaloo Basin Gas in NT Get up! -  CEO Larissa Baldwin at Darling Harbour First Nations Defenders - Aunty Rhonda Dixon, Gadrian Hoosen from Boroloola NT, Raymond Bubbly Weatherall from Gomeroi Country who chaired the meeting out side Plibersek's Nature Positive Conference. NSW Greens - MP Sue Higginson- "People right now are standing up against logging of precious Bulga State Forest and its enfdangered species" Lock the Gate Alliance - Nic Clyde AYCC - Natasha Abhayawickrama Nature Conservation Council Jaqui  Mumford "NSW is a global hotspot for biodiversity destr

Angie Carr, Jane Bremmer, Ella George and Charles Street outline the problems associated with burning municipal waste, not least by setting a climate bomb. The oppose the planned waste incinerator for Lara, between Melbourne and Geelong, Victoria.Stanley Woodhouse from Friends of the Earth spoke about gas infrastructure to be remediated.

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWOCTOBER 7th 2024 Produced by Vivien Langford with Simon Walker in UK"CLIMATE MELTDOWN" Antonio Guterres As England closes its last coal fired power plant,  UK Just Stop Oil keeps up the pressure to stop licensing new oil and gas projects. The jail sentences  for acts of non violent civic action are extreme. UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk described the sentences as "deeply troubling".[14] Michel Forst, the United Nations special rapporteur for environmental defenders, attended two days of the trial and was critical of the proceedings, stating that such severe sentences for non-violent protest are "not acceptable in a democracy"Good News -very late in history for UK and far in the future for Australia.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-30/last-coal-fired-power-plant-in-uk-officially-closes/104378430 Guests1. From the United Nations:Mia Mottley -Prime Minister of Barbados " Prayers and hopes are not strategies that can tackle the climate crisis"Antionio Guterres- Secretary General o