12 Days of COP

Nov 15 2021 5
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Every day of #COP26 in #Glasgow, award winning journalist & presenter and #climate campaigner Peg Alexander chats with people from all over the world about different aspects of the issues that #COP needs to get to grips with if the world is to meet the #ParisClimateAgreement. No more business as usual. In partnership with academic thinktank The Green Economics Institute. @TVRadioPeg

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Bonus episode : Coping with Climate Anxiety

Nov 15 2021 12 mins  
In another bonus episode of the podcast, Peg Alexander is joined by Youth Advocate of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Rhiannon Hawkins to discuss climate anxiety and eco distress. Rhiannon believes that taking what action we can in our own lives is key to helping us get through this.

Bonus : How did it go? Good COP or Cop Out with Natalie Bennett

Nov 14 2021 15 mins  
Now its over, the deal is done. But was it a good cop, or a total copout? Peg Alexander chats with member of the UK House of Lords, Natalie Bennett.

Day 11 : Transport - communities in control

Nov 10 2021 14 mins  
Today Peg Alexander talks transport with Richard Walker of Leeds University and decarboN8. Can a place based carbon calculator help individuals and communities to make better decisions about their local carbon footprint? We also get a bit Leeds, talking about our home city.

Day 10 : The missing $100bn. Social & climate justice

Nov 09 2021 15 mins  
Todays episode, *12 Days of #COP26* Peg Alexander chats with ex MEP Jean Lambert. Jean has spent many years developing and negotiating international initiatives and been a key European campaigner on issues of #socialjustice and #climatejistice. We talk understanding why the $100bn previously agreed to help the global south hasn’t yet been paid, the impact on individuals and commu

Day 9 : Cool, trendy & sustainable? Fashion & the Paris Agreement.

Nov 08 2021 12 mins  
Today Peg talks with Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas, expert in sustainable and ethical fashion at the British School of Fashion. We talk about how the fashion and clothing industry is one of the biggest contributors to climate change and pollution and what we as consumers can do but also what the industry needs to do. Can you be super cool and proper trendy and also be sustainable?

Day 8 : Interconnectedness - agriculture, social justice & going vegan

Nov 07 2021 12 mins  
Today Peg Alexander chats with young Polish activist, Morgan Janowicz. We talk about how everything is connected - climate change, social justice and animal rights. Morgan feels agriculture isn’t being discussed enough at #COP26 and wants more debate about veganism and a move to 100% plant based diets. We also talk about how young people are leading this movement and about how th

Day 7 : The biggest polluters - military spending v environment

Nov 07 2021 12 mins  
Today Peg Alexander chats with Dr Lionel Ehtesham in #India about the amounts of money that the top polluting countries spend on the environment v what they spend on #arms and #defence. We also talk specifically about India.#COP26 #COP26Glasgow #ClimateChange #climateactivism #climatejustice #india #defensespending #defencespending

Day 6 : Individual activism v system and government change

Nov 05 2021 14 mins  
Today Peg Alexander chats with one of her heroes, Adam Smith, founder of the #junkfood #payasyoufeel movement. From a small local project in the #UK, Adam create a movement that went worldwide in not much more than a year. So on the day that the world demonstrates alongside #COP26, is individual activism like this the way forward? Adam feels so and thinks it's that pressure and act

Day 5: Renewable energy, electricity, tech & Brazil

Nov 05 2021 12 mins  
Today Peg Alexander chats with Brazilian engineer Gabrielle Sousa e Silva Hiltmann. Gabrielle works in the solar industry and we talk renewables, the rush to electricity, the discussion at #COP26 so far about coal. Can we tech our way out of this? And we also talk about Brazil, #Bolsonaro, de-forestation and the impact pdf #climatechange on indigenous people. As always it comes bac

Day 4 : Africa bearing the brunt of climate change

Nov 04 2021 12 mins  
Today Peg Alexander talks with Krystel Sil Sikana @Kryshsil about how Africa is being impacted now by #climatechange. Currently in #Glasgow at #COP26 #COP26Glasgow, Krystel argues it is bearing the brunt, with real challenges around both #climatejustice and the financial support promised at previous COPs not materialising, through to the #socialjustice impacts including #climatemig