Climate Talks
By Melbourne Climate Futures
Season 1 followed the journey to COP26, in Glasgow in 2021. Season 2 followed the journey to COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in November 2022. Season 3 is following the journey to COP28 in Dubai, UAE.
In each episode, Jackie, Cathy and Bek present the latest COP news and interview experts to discuss different topics related to the annual global climate talks.
Climate TalksAug 15, 2021
Trailer: City Climate Innovation Special - Season 2 coming this October
The GCoM Global Secretariat is excited to produce City Climate Innovation: Special episodes of the ClimateTalks Podcast, produced by the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.
This 4 episode special series is centered on the nexus of cities, climate change science, and policy innovation - and the critical partnerships required to meet Paris Agreement goals at unprecedented speed and scale.
The GCoM Global Secretariat is grateful for the support of the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Climate Futures in the production of these special episodes.
Keep an eye out for the first episode, featuring the city of Guelph, Canada, dropping on October 9, 2023.
Talking Climate Finance
Dr Arj Dibley, Head of the Sustainable Finance Hub, Melbourne Climate Futures and Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School, Purdie Bowden, Program Lead – Policy and Sustainable Finance Solutions at the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute, and Erwin Jackson, Director, Policy at the Investor Group on Climate Change join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke in the fifth episode of Season 3 of Climate Talks to talk about the role of finance in climate action.
The clip at the beginning of the episode is from UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaking at press conference on climate.
You can hear the clip in full here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/07/1139162
Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
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Oceans and climate governance
Elly Harrould-Kolieb and Yvette Kerslake, join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke in the fifth episode of Season 3 of Climate Talks to talk about oceans and climate governance.
The clip at the beginning of the episode is from UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell speaking at the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue held during the Bonn Climate Conference in June 2023.
You can hear the clip in full here: https://unfccc-events.azureedge.net/SB58_91950/agenda
Read an article by Elly Harrould-Kolieb on oceans and climate law here: https://theconversation.com/could-the-law-of-the-sea-be-used-to-protect-small-island-states-from-climate-change-208842
Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
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Equity and Just Transitions
Anthony Stark, Manager at Melbourne Climate Futures, Daniel Sherrell, Senior Advisor on Climate and Energy at the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Daniel Miller, CEO of the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation join hosts Jackie Peel and Bek Markey-Towler in the fourth episode of Season 3 of Climate Talks to talk about the need for equity and a just transition in the face of a changing climate.
The clip at the beginning of the episode is from youth activists at the Climate Strike in Bonn.
You can hear the clip in full here: https://twitter.com/CANIntl/status/1667234831619465222/video/2
Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
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We’re All in This Together - COP Diplomacy, and Navigating National and Global Priorities
Guests Dr Kate Dooley Research Fellow School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | Faculty of Science University of Melbourne, Professor Jackie Peel Director Melbourne Climate Futures , Dan Pejic Research Fellow Melbourne Centre for Cities and Theo Mendez(PhD Candidate in international relations and climate, University of Melbourne) join hosts Associate Professor Cathy Oke and PhD candidate Bek Markey Towler in the third episode of Season 3 of Climate Talks. They discuss how National priorities, perspectives and partnerships come into play at the global climate talks.
The clip at the beginning of the episode is US special presidential envoy on climate JohnKerry speaking on a US state department / National Museum of American Diplomacy video on climate diplomacy
You can hear the clip in full here: https://diplomacy.state.gov/teacher-resources/what-is-climate-diplomacy-video/
Show guests: Kate Dooley, Jackie Peel, Dan Pejic and Theo Mendez
Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
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Greenwashing, climate change and the climate talk
Guests Dr Andrew King Lecturer In Climate Science, at University of Melbourne’s Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences ; Lisa Cliff Program Director Better Futures Australia Climate Action Network Australia and Dr John Cook Senior Research Fellow Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences join hosts Cathy Oke and Bek Markey Towler in the second episode of Season 3 of Climate Talks. They discuss how greenwashing and jargon of climate change and the climatetalks affects their progress, and the impact of companies and governments actions.
The clip at the beginning of the episode is from the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Nature and Climate blog that also features a video of an expert panel talking about greenwashing.
You can hear the clip in full here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/greenwashing-stop-report-un-experts/
Show guests:
John Cook - https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/1028119-john-cook
article mentioned: John Cook, Cook et al (2022) ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504622.2022.2085671
Andrew King - https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/690702-andrew-king
Lisa Cliff – Better Futures Australia
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Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
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Looking forward to COP28
Dr Fergus Green Lecturer in Political Theory & Public Policy at University College London, Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne, and Janine Felson, Enterprise Fellow at Melbourne Climate Futures at the University of Melbourne, join hosts Jackie Peel, Cathy Oke and Bek Markey Towler in the first episode of Season 3 of Climate Talks. They look ahead to the climate agenda in 2023, summarising where we left off last year post COP27 in Egypt and the key issues already on the agenda for COP28 in Dubai; and discussed the latest IPCC synthesis report of the sixth assessment report https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/
You can see the generational warming figure Jackie discusses in the episode on page 8 of this document from the sixth assessment report: https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6syr/pdf/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf
You can also read more about the proposed Safeguard Mechanism in Australia, which has now become law post-recording: https://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/NGER/The-safeguard-mechanism
The clip at the beginning of the episode is COP28 President and CEO of Abu Dhabi Oil Company - Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber, speaking at the CERAWeek 2023 S&P Energy Conference early this month
You can hear the clip in full here: https://apnews.com/video/business-united-arab-emirates-videos-sultan-al-jaber-national-2c0494c18c584fa5a60b0e6d9de6f194
See here link to read Fergus Green’s publications for more information: https://fergusgreen.net/
Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
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Outcomes, Reflections from COP27
Did COP27 deliver what the world needs to limit warming to below 1.5C? What were the losses, what were the gains, and where to from here? In the final episode of Climate Talks season 2, Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the Discipline of Political Science, and Janine Felson, Melbourne Climate Futures research fellow join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke to discuss the outcomes of COP27.
Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
Find COP27 analysis and commentary on the Melbourne Climate Futures COP27 webpage.
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City Climate Innovation Special - Episode 3: Innovative urban solutions (Live from COP 27)
In this episode our impressive lineup of guests join hosts Ben Jance, Marnie McGregor, and Andy Deacon directly from COP27 in the third episode of City Climate Innovation, a podcast series of special episodes of the ClimateTalks Podcast to discuss networking and innovation for cities. We hear from a range of experts that we caught up with at the COP floor that are all working toward innovative climate solutions and research from a range of perspectives.
Our guests are Massamba Thioye, Project Executive of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat (or UNFCCC) Global Innovation Hub; Yunus Arikan, Director of Global Advocacy at ICLEI World Secretariat; Helen Watts, Senior Director Global Partnerships, Student Energy; Sheela Patel, Founder and Director of the Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) Founder and Innovate4Cities Advisory Group Co-Chair and Anna Reynolds, Lord Mayor of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and GCoM Board Member.
The City Climate Innovation podcast series is produced by GCoM and the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. And this podcast is produced on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World.
Follow the City Climate Innovation podcast series by subscribing to the ClimateTalks podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or where you listen to your podcasts.
Our best guess for the outcomes of COP27
Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the Discipline of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Omnia El Omrani, the COP27 President Envoy on Youth, and Kathryn Bowen the Deputy Director of Melbourne Climate Futures and Professor of Environment, Climate & Global Health join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke in the 9th episode of Season 2 of Climate Talks to provide some of their best guesses for the outcomes of COP27.
Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
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City Climate Innovation Special - Episode 2: Networked and Innovative Cities
In the second episode of the City Climate Innovation: Special episodes of the Climate Talks Podcast ‘Networked and Innovative Cities’, special guests Maryke van Staden, Director of Business Development, the carbonn Climate Center, and Interim Head of Climate Action at ICLEI World Secretariat, Jean-Baptiste Buffet, Head of Global Policy and Advocacy at United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and Rachel Huxley, Director of Knowledge and Learning at C40 Cities, join hosts Ben Jance, Cathy Oke, and Andy Deacon to discuss the importance of networking and innovation for city climate action - and key activities in the lead up to COP27 from major city networks.
You can hear the clip at the beginning of the episode in full here.
The theme music is by Music for a Warming World.
Follow the City Climate Innovation podcast series by subscribing to the Climate Talks podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or where you listen to your podcasts.
The GCoM Global Secretariat is grateful for the support of the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities in the production of City Climate Innovation: Special episodes of the ClimateTalks Podcast, produced by the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.
Who goes to COP?
The guests joining us in the 8th episode of Season 2 of Climate Talks are Virginia Marshall, practising lawyer and the Inaugural Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow with the Australian National University, Yunus Arikan, Director of Global Advocacy at the ICLEI World Secretariat, Lisa Cliff, Program Director for Better Futures Australia, and Megan Tran, Youth Coordinator for Student Energy. These guests join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke to talk about the different stakeholders that attend COP and what they are looking to achieve from COP27 this year.
The clip at the beginning of the episode is Ambassador Mohamed Ibrahim Nasr of Egypt speaking on the priorities for COP27.
You can hear the clip in full here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xFlesIHrOMw
Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
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City Climate Innovation Special - Episode 1: Cities on a Mission
In this first episode of the City Climate Innovation: Special episodes of the ClimateTalks Podcast - Cities on a Mission- we shed light on the critical need for urban research and innovation, kicking off with GCoM Research and Innovation Technical Working Group co-chair Valentina Palermo, Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) who shares what urban practitioners are saying through the lens of the City Research and Innovation Agenda (CRIA) and the Global Research and Action Agenda (GRAA) - two key outcomes from the Innovate4Cities 2021 Conference, launched and discussed at ICLEI World Congress 2021-2022.
Coming from the Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh, USA we also have Rosalinde van der Vlies, Director of the Clean Planet Directorate in the European Commission's DG for Research and Innovation and Mission Innovation Vice Chair, and Giorgia Rambelli, Director of the Urban Transitions Mission - unpacking the Mission Innovation Urban Transitions Mission (UTM), a joint effort that aims to mobilize cities worldwide to advance their climate action planning, increase their ambition and implement systemic and innovative approaches to a net-zero, resilient, and people-centered urban future. They will go in more detail on what UTM will bring to the stage and its priorities for the first year. These guests join hosts Ben Jance, Cathy Oke, and Andy Deacon.
You can hear the clip in full here.
The theme music is by Music for a Warming World.
Follow the City Climate Innovation podcast series by subscribing to the ClimateTalks podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or where you listen to your podcasts.
Collisions of Crises
Alex Scott, Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics Programme Leader at E3G, Tony Wood, Energy program director at the Grattan Institute, and Rebekkah Markey-Towler from Melbourne Climate Futures and a former producer of this podcast, join host Cathy Oke and guest host Don Henry in the 7th of Season 2 of Climate Talks. Topics discussed include how the energy crisis and the war in Ukraine might impact on the climate negotiations ahead of COP27. This episode also considers fair share in relation to the climate negotiations and the potential consequences if countries fail to fulfill their climate targets.
The clip at the beginning of the episode features Mr. Simon Stiell, the newly appointed UNFCCC Executive Secretary.
You can hear the clip in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pieeKvY3qsA
Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
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The Australian and Pacific Climate Change Litigation database records cases on issues of climate change in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: https://law.app.unimelb.edu.au/climate-change/
What is resilience?
Prof Sarah Bell, City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation at the University of Melbourne, Dr Kate Strachan, Manager of Climate Change Resilience at ICLEI Africa, and Dr Janine Felson, Enterprise Fellow at Melbourne Climate Futures at the University of Melbourne, join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke in the sixth episode of Season 2 of Climate Talks to discuss what we mean when we talk about resilience.
The clip at the beginning of the episode is from Debra Roberts, Co-Chair of the IPCC’s Working Group II Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.
You can hear the clip in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E1hDTRH9_U
Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
Subscribe to Climate Talks on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or here: https://anchor.fm/climate-talks
Big talk, empty promises?
Halfway to COP27, what should we expect?
Why Australia needs to talk about climate change
The futures we imagine are the futures we get
Looking to COP27
A post-COP conversation
Special Episode: 'Climate Bites' from Week 2 of COP26
Special Episode: 'Climate Bites' from Week 1 of COP26
How has COVID-19 impacted COP26?
Guests include Peter Doherty, Nobel Laureate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Kathryn Bowen, Professor of Environment, Climate, and Global Health in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and Deputy Director of Melbourne Climate Futures; and Don Henry, Melbourne Enterprise Professor of Environmentalism, Melbourne Sustainable Society institute - all University of Melbourne.
What does COP26 mean for non-state actors?
Key issues at COP26: what is being discussed and what is left out?
Climate Talks is produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Our theme music is by Music for a Warming World. Climate Talks acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
Special Feature: IPCC's 'Code Red' report on the latest climate science
What is COP26?
Join Prof Jackie Peel and Dr @cathyoke in conversation with special guests Prof @EckersleyRobyn and @Leese_rc @BetterFuturesAU in the first episode of Climate Talks: Journey to COP26' from #UniMelbClimateFutures and @networkedcities: law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/mcf/cop26/podcast-climate-talks