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  1. 20 APR

    SANTA MARTA Episode 4. Prof Elisa Morgera and Laura Restrepo

    Climate 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

  2. 13 APR

    Australia's Unstable Fossil Fuel Dependancy

    To 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.

  3. 6 APR

    SANTA MARTA : WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME CANOE

    CLIMATE 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

  4. 9 MAR

    Green Colonialism

    Shae 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. (2020) Canada’s National Parks are Colonial Crime Scenes. Available at:  https://thewalrus.ca/canadas-national-parks-are-colonial-crime-scenes/ Dowie, M. (2011) Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and  Native Peoples. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Kimmerer, R. W. (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the  Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions. Luke, T. W. (1997) ‘The World Wildlife Fund: Ecocolonialism as Funding the Worldwide “Wise Use” of  Nature’, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 8(2), doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/10455759709358734.  Adams, W. M. (2017) ‘Sleeping with the enemy? Biodiversity conservation, corporations and the green  economy’, Journal of Political Ecology, 24(1), doi:https://doi.org/10.2458/v24i1.20804. Allen, K. (2018) ‘Why Exchange Values are Not Environmental Values: Explaining the Problem with  Neoliberal Conservation’, Conservation and Society, 16(3), doi:http://www.jstor.org/stable/26500638. Bhattacharyya, J. and Slocombe, S. (2017) ‘Animal Agency: Wildlife Management from a Kincentric  Perspective’, Ecosphere, 8(10), doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1978. Büscher, B., Sullivan, S., Neves, K., Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. (2012) ‘Towards a Synthesized Critique  of Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation’, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 23(2),  doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2012.674149.Cox, P. A., Elmqvist, T. (1997) ‘Ecocolonialism and Indigenous-Controlled Rainforest Preserves in  Samoa’, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 26(2).Crosby, A. (1986) Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press. Fletcher, R. (2010) ‘Neoliberal Environmentality: Towards a Poststructuralist Political Ecology of the  Conservation Debate’, Conservation and Society, 8(3), doi:http://www.jstor.org/stable/26393009 Goldman, M. J. (2020) Narrating Nature: Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing. Tucson,  AZ: The University of Arizona Press.  Mantaay, J. (2002) ‘Mapping Environmental Injustices: Pitfalls and Potential of Geographic Information  Systems in Assessing Environmental Health and Equity’, Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(2), doi:10.1289/ehp.02110s2161.   Mei-Singh, L. (2016) ‘Carceral Conservationism: Contested Landscapes and Technologies of  Dispossession at Ka‘ena Point, Hawai‘i’, American Quarterly, 68(3),  doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2016.0059.  Mitall, A. and Fraser, E. (2018) ‘Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever’, The  Oakland Institute.Neale, T. (2017) Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia. Honolulu:  University of Hawai’i Press. Nogrady, B. (2019) ‘Trauma of Australia's Indigenous 'Stolen Generations' is still affecting children  today’, Nature (London), 570(7762), doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01948-3. Pascoe, B. (2014) Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture. Broome: Magabala Books  Aboriginal Corporation.  Smith, W., Neale, T., Weir, J. K. (2021) ‘Persuasion Without Policies: The Work of Reviving Indigenous  Peoples’ Fire Management in Southern Australia’, Geoforum, 120, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.015.  Steffensen, V. (2020) Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia.  Melbourne: Hardie Grant Explore.  Tuck, E. and Yang, K. W. (2012) ‘Decolonization is not a Metaphor’, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1). Whyte, K. P, Brewer, J. P, Johnson, J. T. (2016) ‘Weaving Indigenous Science, Protocols and  Sustainability Science’, Sustainability Science, 11(1) doi:10.1007/s11625-015-0296-6 Whyte, K. P. (2017) ‘Is it Colonial Dèja-Vu? Indigenous Peoples and Climate Injustice’, Humanities for  the Environment: Integrating knowledge, forming new constellations of practice, ed. By Joni Adamson  and Michael Davis.Whyte, K. P. (2018) White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization. Available at:  https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/decolonize/2018/04/03/white-allies-lets-be-honest-about decolonization.Wood, S, Bowman, D. (2011) ‘Alternative stable states and the role of fire–vegetation– soil feedbacks in  the temperate wilderness of southwest Tasmania’, Landscape Ecology.  WebsitesBush Heritage Australia - https://www.bushheritage.org.au/?srsltid=AfmBOoqnkDeqMH5UAddiKk5QZWOwRDVP4bwRvCB7JKs4c79eaYt6Z7cqCountry Needs People - https://www.countryneedspeople.org.au/These Sacred Hills - https://sacredhillsfilm.com/ North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance - https://nailsma.org.au/ Australian Land Conservation Alliance - https://alca.org.au/ Indigenous Desert Alliance - https://www.indigenousdesertalliance.com/z

  5. 2 MAR

    FIGHTING NOT DROWNING

    CLIMATE ACTION SHOWMARCH 2ND 2026Produced by Vivien LangfordF I G H T I N G not  D R O W N I N G FROM BELEM TO SANTA MARTA - Part 2 -THE FIRST INTERNATI0NAL CONFERENCE ON  TRANSITIONING AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS - Yes Just that!Guests: Daniela Duran Gonzalez - Head of the Office of International AffairsMinistry of Environment and Sustainable Development in Colombia Patrica Suarez - a Murui Indigenous woman, advisor to the general coordinating body of the National Organisation of Indigenous Peoples of the Colombian Amazon (OPIAC) Tasneem Essop - Executive Director of Climate Action Network International the largest global network of over 1,300 civil society organisations, in over 120 countries, fighting the climate crisis. Alex Rafalowicz - Executive Director of the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty Initiative.  Santa Marta "will be quite a large and historic event that will draw through thinking about how can we address the challenges that we have for realising the phase-out”  Film : FIGHTING NOT DROWNING by C. MackenzieA short film and showing how Pacific Students with the diplomatic support of The Hon Ralph Regenvanu of Vanuatu, took a case to the International Court of Justice.As Philippe Sands says " A single line from the ICJ can be used in National courts around the world" you will hear voices from this film but please watch it.-  available on YoutubeAs Julian Aguon, author, Indigenous human rights lawyer and founder of Blue Ocean Law says,“I’m trying to use the law to wrap my arms around what I most love and wish to protect.”  Thanks to the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative for permission to broadcast material from their webinar and film.

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