Podcast – COP and Climate change

Christchurch City Libraries blog hosts a series of regular podcasts from New Zealand's only specialist human rights radio show Speak up - Kōrerotia. This show is created by Sally Carlton.

This episode discusses issues around the UN climate change conference, the "Conference of Parties" or COP 22 which is underway in Marrakech and questions whether it's an effective way of combatting climate change. Also discussed are -

  • scientific and political understandings of the realities of climate change
  • carbon budget
  • History of COP especially COP-3 (Kyoto), COP-15 (Copenhagen) and COP-21 (Paris)
  • The Paris Agreement - What? Why? How has it been received?; the Agreement as enabler for grassroots environmental advocacy
  • New Zealand's climate record

The panel for this show includes host Sally Carlton, Hamish Laing, Jeff Willis and Pubudu Senanayake.

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