Votes for climate change? Elections and COP29

Wes Morgan, Research Associate at UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response, Fellow at the Climate Council, and Research Fellow Griffith Asia Institute, Professor Tom Daly, Director, Democratic Decay and Renewal at the University of Melbourne and Erwin Jackson, Managing Director, Policy, at the Investor Group on Climate Change join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the sixth episode of Season 4 of Climate Talks to talk about the impact of politics and elections on COP29.

The clip at the beginning of the episode is from UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell speaking at an event at Chatham House.

In June 2024, Demoptimism (democracy + optimism) was launched as the new phase of the Democratic Decay & Renewal (DEM-DEC) online research hub established in 2018: this reimagined research hub seeks to foster evidence-based hope by not only identifying the many challenges facing democracy worldwide, but also showcasing the expanding work globally to resist threats and to repair, renew, and strengthen democracies: https://www.demoptimism.org/

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Credits

Co-hosted by Jackie Peel, Cathy Oke and Bek Markey-Towler

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.

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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