241. 40 Seconds to Save The World! with Paul Goodenough
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week, the hosts discuss the much celebrated ruling last week at the European Court of Human Rights when over 2000 women aged 64 and up, took the Swiss Government to court for failing to protect them from the growing effects of climate change which proved detrimental to their health. The court in Strasbourg ruled in favour of the women, opening up a pathway for other similar cases to now be heard. The hosts briefly discuss the ruling as well as the backlash experienced among some MPs in the UK and Switzerland and why their accusations of infringement upon country sovereignty is false.
We are then joined by the incredible Paul Goodenough, an award-winning, purpose-driven storyteller and entrepreneur, working in the environmental, charity, peace-building and entertainment sectors. In 2019, Paul co-founded Rewriting Earth (formerly Rewriting Extinction), a global collaboration of 300+ of the most influential storytellers creating non-political, non-judgemental content to reach mainstream audiences not typically engaged with environmental issues. It was a brilliant, fun and inspiring interview - make sure to listen to hear how Paul G describes how he hopes the stories he helps bring to life ‘throw an arm around people’ and welcome them into the climate space. The more the merrier we say!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and optimism. I'm Tom Dickinson. I'm Paul Carnack. |
| 0:16.1 | Oh no, Christina, do Christianiana. And I'm Christiania Figuero. |
| 0:22.4 | We love you, Paul Bowman. |
| 0:25.0 | Today we're going to talk about some recent exciting updates in the Battle for Deal with Climate |
| 0:29.9 | Change through the courts. |
| 0:31.3 | We're also going to discuss the ways in which we both are and |
| 0:33.8 | are not communicating climate change effectively to broad audiences through an |
| 0:37.6 | interview with Paul good enough. Thanks for being here. So we got a lot to cover this week. Interesting conversation last week |
| 0:49.5 | with Simon. Hope everybody enjoyed that and he of course is now on his way to the spring |
| 0:53.8 | Simon Steele the executive secretary of the UN F triple C. I was assuming everybody had |
| 0:59.0 | listened to it but you're absolutely right thank you put no you're right |
| 1:01.4 | totally first-name terms if like everything |
| 1:03.2 | the whole world and Tom Carnac. Tom. Right back to business this week he of |
| 1:11.2 | course on his way to the spring meetings of the World Bank that's going to be a lot happening there in terms of updates the critical finance agenda |
| 1:16.6 | We will get to that in future weeks, but today we wanted to start off. There's been some really interesting things happening in the whole |
| 1:23.8 | sphere of how the courts can be utilized to change our trajectory on climate both in the |
| 1:28.8 | US and in the EU and to kick us off Chrisiana is going to tell us what's been |
| 1:32.3 | happening over to you. And to kick us off, Christina is going to tell us what's been happening. |
| 1:32.8 | Over the year. |
| 1:33.8 | So on the podcast, a couple of times we've been mentioning the rise of climate litigation. |
| 1:40.0 | Most of them not being successful but a couple of them really making it all the way up to the top courts and |
| 1:50.6 | getting successful rulings. |
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