TRACK CHANGES - chats with climate change and sustainability experts

Murray Griffin
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Tune in for interesting chats with experts and activists working to stop carbon pollution and protect and restore nature. A podcast for those working in the climate and sustainability bubble, and for the bubble-curious! Co-hosted by Murray Griffin, from climate and sustainability communications and content consultancy Earthed.au, and sustainability consultant and lecturer Franziska Curran. It includes regular chats with Mark Tilly, AsIa Pacific editor for Carbon Pulse and Biodiversity Pulse.

  1. Net zero or real zero? Which climate pollution target is best? An open mic episode!

    14 DEC

    Net zero or real zero? Which climate pollution target is best? An open mic episode!

    Net zero or real zero? This 'open mic' episode features short audio clips from a range of people, giving their views. Then podcast hosts Dr Franziska Curran and Murray Griffin weigh in with their views. Is one concept a misguided fantasy, and the other our best hope? Or are both concepts useful? Tune in to find out!  If you like this episode, don't forget to rate it on your favourite pod platform and share it with friends/colleagues!

    1 hr
  2. What we got from the COP30 climate summit, what we need from COP31

    11 DEC

    What we got from the COP30 climate summit, what we need from COP31

    Featuring a chat with Carbon Pulse North America editor Allison Gacad, and Carbon Pulse Asia Pacific editor Mark Tilly. Allison and Mark discuss the highs and lows of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, and chat about what they'd like to see from the Turkiye-Australia-Pacific COP31. Can next year's TAPCOP stare down the fossil fuel interests that managed to keep a fossil phasedown out of the COP30 formal outcomes document?  Allison also talks about the billions of dollars raised for the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, and Mark chats about one of the best acronyms to come out of the UNFCCC in quite a while - BAM - the Belem Action Mechanism. Enjoy!

    57 min
  3. The world's newest (and prize-winning) environmental treaty - protecting our high seas

    20 NOV

    The world's newest (and prize-winning) environmental treaty - protecting our high seas

    The world's newest environmental treaty will protect the high seas - those parts of the ocean that belong to no nation. These marine waters extend over about half the planet. This ambitious treaty recently won the world's most prestigious environmental prize - the Earthshot prize for reviving our oceans. The prize was accepted on behalf of the treaty by the director of the High Seas Alliance - Rebecca Hubbard.  In this episode, Track Changes hosts Franziska and Murray do a virtual 'trip' to Rio to recreate that well-deserved prize-winning moment at the 2025 Earthshot prizes. And then we chat with Rebecca, who explains how the treaty was developed and what it will do.  It's an inspiring episode - enjoy!

    1h 5m
  4. Ralph Regenvanu: Protecting an Amazon-sized ocean expanse

    11 NOV

    Ralph Regenvanu: Protecting an Amazon-sized ocean expanse

    The proposed Melanesian Ocean Reserve is an ambitious proposal to protect more than six million square kilometres of incredibly biodiverse ocean, centred on the waters of Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia. In this episode, we talk to globally renowned politician Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's Climate Change and Environment Minister, who is playing a leading role in bringing the Reserve into being. Ralph was a leading figure in securing UN General Assembly support to seek an International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the climate change obligations of nation states. And he is now spearheading efforts to make that landmark ICJ opinion the baseline for policy-making and decision-making on climate change. Enjoy the episode!

    45 min
  5. What to expect from the COP30 climate summit

    6 NOV

    What to expect from the COP30 climate summit

    Will the UN COP30 climate summit in Belem, Brazil, be a success? Will it be a COP that explicitly aims for 'Tropical Forests Forever' and tacitly leaves the world in a 'fossil fuels forever' mindset? Or will it be a COP where there is action across the board? And what is likely to happen on the crucial issue of providing finance to developing countries to help them reduce emissions and adapt to climate change and disruption? In this episode, two senior journalists from the Carbon Pulse news service - Allison Gacad and Mark Tilly - share their insights about this make-or-break COP.

    43 min
  6. The Queensland LNP's energy rogue map

    31 OCT

    The Queensland LNP's energy rogue map

    It's important to face up to the destructive nature of the Queensland LNP's so-called energy roadmap, and related LNP moves that make it much harder for renewable energy projects to get assessed, let alone approved.  The LNP has gone rogue on energy, barely maintaining any pretence of treating the renewables sector fairly. And if there is to be an energy transition in Queensland, it will be despite the LNP state government, not because of it. In this special episode, Queensland Opposition Leader Steven Miles discusses the LNP's roadmap, and talks about what it means for the state, and for the nation.

    26 min
  7. How some industry groups slow climate action (and which ones do it)

    28 OCT

    How some industry groups slow climate action (and which ones do it)

    Some industry groups have for years succeeded in undermining effective climate policies. And there's no sign of them stopping. In this episode, Christian Downie discusses his impressive work on how these industry associations operate - and his findings on the eye-watering amounts of money they spend. Plus we do a deep dive on some of them - including the Australian Energy Producers, and the Minerals Council of Australia. And we also discuss Manufacturing Australia's current fossil gas campaign. Christian is a Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University, and he's also director of the ANU's Governing Energy Transitions Lab. As well as teaching at ANU, he's taught at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics. Christian has also been an advisor to several government departments, and he's co-edited a new book called Climate Obstruction - A Global Assessment. And particularly relevant to today's chat, he has a strong research interest in how some business associations have stymied good climate policy. Enjoy!

    1h 4m
  8. Decarbonising commercial shipping (using wind, not green ammonia or methanol)

    30 SEPT

    Decarbonising commercial shipping (using wind, not green ammonia or methanol)

    The most feasible short-term approach to decarbonising commercial shipping is not green ammonia or green methanol - and definitely not LNG - it's wind, says Andrew Dickson. Andrew has worked on big solar, hydrogen and wind projects, and he reckons high-tech wind assisted shipping propulsion is the easiest place to start. That's because scaling green maritime fuels - while it needs to be done - is so complex and will take such a long time. With wind, there's no fuel supply (bunkering) issues, no dangerous substances, no complex new crew training requirements, and it's retrofittable. And it can result in a meaningful cut in emissions. (And no, it's not a deck covered in turbines, and it's not your standard sail). And a bonus chat with Carbon Pulse Asia Pacific editor Mark Tilly, who gives a policy perspective on cutting maritime emissions, with the goal of net zero by 2050.  Co-hosted by Murray Griffin and Dr Franziska Curran.

    1h 17m
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Tune in for interesting chats with experts and activists working to stop carbon pollution and protect and restore nature. A podcast for those working in the climate and sustainability bubble, and for the bubble-curious! Co-hosted by Murray Griffin, from climate and sustainability communications and content consultancy Earthed.au, and sustainability consultant and lecturer Franziska Curran. It includes regular chats with Mark Tilly, AsIa Pacific editor for Carbon Pulse and Biodiversity Pulse.

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