218. October Mailbag
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week it is over to you, our listeners as the hosts strive to answer all of your challenging and wonderful questions: Should we be having children? How long have we got? How do international conflicts impact climate? And so many more…
Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to send through a question to our hosts, you made this a very special episode. Apologies if we weren’t able to get to yours, please do go and engage with us on social media and share your thoughts.
We also have an edited interview between our friend and colleague Sue Reid and the incredible Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, a Tanzanian biodiversity leader and lawyer, speaking in her capacity as Co-Chair of The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) on the incredible launch of TNFD’s final framework/recommendations at Climate Week NYC on 18 Sept and the urgent need to shake up current paradigms that still pervasively treat nature as disposable and limitless.
Music this week comes from Passiflora and their wonderful track ‘Bosque’.
NOTES AND RESOURCES
Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week
Links to the report mentioned by the hosts at the top of the episode called: Latin American successes in the energy transition can be found here
Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme and Co-Chair of The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
Here is the link to the published TNFD framework.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrageon Optimism, I'm Tom Rifickarnak. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Cristiana Fiegidis. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm Paul Dickens. |
| 0:18.6 | Today we have one of our favourite types of episodes where we get to answer your questions |
| 0:22.8 | plus we have music from Passive Flora. |
| 0:24.8 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:45.8 | Hey you two, so we always enjoy these episodes. |
| 0:48.8 | We've got loads of cracking questions which we're going to get into and crack through. |
| 0:54.8 | But before we do, Cristiana, this is actually quite a big week for climate in Latin America. |
| 0:58.8 | I was just reading some messages that I've had lots of this week explaining that it's climate week |
| 1:03.8 | Latin America going on in Panama. |
| 1:04.8 | Do you want to just say a word about that? |
| 1:06.8 | What's going on and why it's important before we start? |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, well you'll remember that we had New York Climate Week a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:11.8 | And this week as you say it's Latin American and Caribbean climate week taking place in Panama. |
| 1:17.8 | Very exciting, very exciting because I get to boast not just about my country but about my whole continent, my whole region. |
| 1:27.8 | So I'm very excited about my whole continent. |
| 1:31.8 | Most of us don't even have a country and you've got a continent. |
| 1:34.8 | Well, there you go. |
| 1:35.8 | I live in a little island. |
| 1:36.8 | I live in a little island. |
| 1:37.8 | Sorry for you. |
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