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 the the climatetalks affects their progress, and the impact of companies and government 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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Credits

Co-hosted by Cathy Oke and Don Henry

Produced by Kajsa Lundberg, Greta Robenstone, and Ben Chandler

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.

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