Climate Action Show

 CLIMATE 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.They will provide roadmaps whenever Governments ask them to do the modelling.Pictured above :Carlos Nobre- World reknowned Brazilian Earth System and climate scientistIrene Velez Tirres - Colombia's Environment MinisterJohn Rockstrom -Director of Potsdam Institute for global governments with specific roadmaps to transition away from foissil fuels.

Shae 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/ 

Shae 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

CLIMATE 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."   

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