Podcast: Climate Talks

Climate Talks Season 2

• Outcomes, reflections from COP27

  Did COP27 deliver what the world needs to limit warming to below 1.5C? What were the losses, what were the gains, and where to from here? In the final episode of Climate Talks season 2, Robyn Eckersley and Janine Felson join our hosts to discuss the outcomes of COP27.

• Our best guess for the outcomes of COP27

  Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Omnia El Omrani, COP27 President Envoy on Youth, and Kathryn Bowen, Deputy Director of Melbourne Climate Futures and Professor of Environment, Climate and Global Health provide some of their best guesses on the outcomes of COP27 to hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke.

• Who goes to COP?

  Join Virginia Marshall, practising lawyer and the Inaugural Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow with the Australian National University, Yunus Arikan, Director of Global Advocacy at the ICLEI World Secretariat, Lisa Cliff, Program Director for Better Futures Australia, and Megan Tran, Youth Coordinator for Student Energy to talk about the different stakeholders that attend COP and what they are looking to achieve from COP27 this year.

• Collisions of crises

  This episode of Climate Talks discusses how the energy crisis and the war in Ukraine might impact COP27 climate negotiations, while considering fair share in the  negotiations and the potential consequences if countries fail to fulfill their climate targets. Featuring Alex Scott, Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics Programme Leader at E3G, Tony Wood, Energy program director at the Grattan Institute, and Rebekkah Markey-Towler from Melbourne Climate Futures and a former Climate Talks producer, as they join host Cathy Oke and guest host Don Henry.

• What is resilience?

  What do we mean when we talk about resilience? Prof Sarah Bell, City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation at the University of Melbourne, Dr Kate Strachan, Manager of Climate Change Resilience at ICLEI Africa, and Dr Janine Felson, Enterprise Fellow at Melbourne Climate Futures at the University of Melbourne, join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke to discuss the question.

• Big Talk, Empty Promises?

  As preparations to COP27 ramp up, Climate Talks explores Nationally Determined Contributions and climate targets implementation, asking: is the big talk backed up by action? Stephen Minas, Associate Professor, School of Transnational Law, Peking University and Senior Research Fellow, Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London, Don Henry, Melbourne Enterprise Professor of Environmentalism, and Rebecca Burdon, CEO of Climate Resource, join hosts Cathy Oke and Bek Markey-Towler in episode 5.

• Halfway to COP27, what should we expect?

  At the halfway point between COP26 and COP27, we revisit key climate ambitions and initiatives and their development since COP26 and look ahead to what to expect from COP27. Kate Dooley, Research Fellow in Ecosystem Based Pathways, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and Laura Hillis, Director of Corporate Engagement, Investor Group on Climate Change, join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke.

• Why Australia needs to talk about climate change

  Hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke discuss why Australia needs to talk seriously about climate change, and the issue of climate change in our Federal election. They're joined by Nigel Topping, United Nations High-Level Champion for Climate Action for the United Kingdom, Jon Faine, former ABC Radio Melbourne broadcaster, regular columnist for The Age and Vice Chancellors Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Sally Capp, Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne.

• The futures we imagine are the futures we get

  Our hosts discuss the impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities related to climate change, and implications for policy makers with IPCC report lead authors Chandni Singh, Senior Research Consultant at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, and Kathryn Bowen, Professor of Environment, Climate and Global Health and Deputy Director of Melbourne Climate Futures, as well as Jon Barnett, Professor and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne.

• Looking to COP27

  Robyn Eckersley, Professor of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and David Karoly, Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne and previously Chief Research Scientist in the CSIRO Climate Science Centre, join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke in the first episode of Season 2 of Climate Talks. Topics discussed include what is COP27, what is the science, and what to expect in 2022 leading up to the conference.

City Climate Innovation: Special episodes of the Climate Talks podcast

City Climate Innovation: Special episodes of the Climate Talks Podcast is a four-part limited series focusing on the nexus of cities, climate change science, and policy innovation – and the critical partnerships required to meet Paris Agreement goals at unprecedented speed and scale. By highlighting the priority knowledge gaps identified through the City Research and Innovation Agenda (CRIA) as a common starting point, the limited podcast series takes listeners through key partnerships on the road to COP 27 - including Mission Innovation, Innovate4Cities, and others. City Climate Innovations is produced by the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, Melbourne Climate Futures, and the Melbourne Centre for Cities.

• Innovative urban solutions

  Hosts Ben Jance, Marnie McGregor, and Andy Deacon speak directly with a range of experts on the ground at COP27 in Egypt, all working towards innovative climate solutions and research from a range of perspectives. Guests include: Massamba Thioye, UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub; Yunus Arikan, ICLEI World Secretariat; Helen Watts, Student Energy; Sheela Patel, SPARC and Innovate4Cities; and Anna Reynolds, Lord Mayor of Hobart, Tasmania.

• Networked and Innovative Cities

  We discuss the importance of networking and innovation for city climate action, and key activities from major city networks in the lead up to COP27. Maryke van Staden, Director of Business Development, the carbonn Center, and Interim Head of Climate Action at ICLEI World Secretariat, Jean-Baptiste Buffet, Head of Global Policy and Advocacy at United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and Rachel Huxley, Director of Knowledge and Learning at C40 Cities, join hosts Ben Jance, Cathy Oke, and Andy Deacon.

• Cities on a mission

  This episode sheds light on the critical need for urban research and innovation. Valentina Palermo, European Commission, Rosalinde van der Vlies, Director of the Clean Planet Directorate, and Giorgia Rambelli, Director of Mission Innovation Urban Transitions Mission, join hosts Ben Jance, Cathy Oke, and Andy Deacon.