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News Decoder is an educational non-profit that works with young people across the world, building media literacy and critical thinking skills especially around journalism, news consumption and creation. We host a range of student and staff-made podcasts on our podcast channel.

  1. EYES on Climate Ep. 6: How International Climate Law Has Changed

    11/20/2025

    EYES on Climate Ep. 6: How International Climate Law Has Changed

    EYES on Climate is a podcast about climate education, as part of the Empowering Youth through Environmental Storytelling (EYES) project. EYES is an Erasmus+ co-funded project by The Environment and Human Rights Academy, News Decoder, and the Young Educators European Association. Host: Amina McCauley, News Decoder On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice unanimously affirmed that the commitments from states at yearly COPs are not just political in character – they are also legal. States now have an obligation to prevent significant environmental harm and cooperate in good faith to protect the environment.These obligations are owed by all states to each other, even if they have not signed a treaty. The ICJ also framed the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a pre-condition of other human rights. This all started in a classroom in 2019 in Vanuatu, where a group of students brought to the Pacific Islands Leaders Forum Meeting in Tuvalu their case of climate injustice, along with a proposed legal pathway. Fast forward to 2023 - led by Vanuatu and building on the students’ idea, 130 United Nations member states co- sponsored a resolution to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This would mean that the ICJ would decide what nations’ obligations are for their climate change commitments and what the consequences are, should these obligations not be met. But what does the advisory opinion mean, in practice? We sat down with climate lawyer Loes van Dijk, founder of Climate Court, to discuss how the advisory opinion will work going forward. We also discussed why understanding your legal rights, international law, and climate law is important for education, and how young people like the Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change, have the power to make a difference.

    42 min
  2. EYES on Climate Ep. 5: How You Can Make a Climate Podcast

    05/22/2025

    EYES on Climate Ep. 5: How You Can Make a Climate Podcast

    Anyone can produce and publish a podcast, but how? In this episode of EYES on Climate, we dive into how to produce climate stories for the ears. We focus on the idea and storytelling side of climate podcasting. For a complete guide on how to make a podcast, listen to News Decoder’s WePod Guide to Audio Storytelling: https://news-decoder.com/wepod/ We spoke with Josie Colter, founder and director of Studio Goldstar, a podcast studio producing climate stories with a mission to make the climate conversation something everyone wants to be a part of. Josie told us where to find ideas, how best to tell a story about the climate, and why it’s possible for you to do this at home. The climate podcasts she produces include TedX London’s Climate Curious and HERO’s Climate Humans. EYES on Climate is a podcast on how educators can and should teach climate change. We talk with experts in education, climate, and journalism, about how we can empower youth to activate their knowledge and create change through storytelling. This podcast is co-produced by News Decoder and The Climate Academy. We are working together to develop an accessible, engaging, and thorough climate journalism curriculum for secondary schools all around the world. Our project, Empowering Youth through Environmental Storytelling, or EYES, is co-funded by the European Union. If you have ideas or thoughts for EYES on Climate reach out to us at amina.mccauley@news-decoder.com and sign up to our newsletter here: https://tinyurl.com/bdhwhdwz Hosted and produced by Amina McCauley, News Decoder

    22 min

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News Decoder is an educational non-profit that works with young people across the world, building media literacy and critical thinking skills especially around journalism, news consumption and creation. We host a range of student and staff-made podcasts on our podcast channel.