Climate Action Show

February 28th 2022

Produced by Vivien Langford

GREEN CLIMATE FUND AND TRANSITIONS FILM FESTIVAL

https://www.transitionsfilmfestival.com/program-2022/

Guests

Rita Leistner -  Director of TFF film Forest for the Trees. During this film " a forest is planted, a film is made but the logging goes on " We talk about the state of emergency in Canada and the lives of tree planters who sometimes become environmentalists.

https://watch.eventive.org/transitionsfilmfestival2022/play/61b7341e7118...

David Klammer -  Director of TFF film "Barricade" It's about the one year occupation of the Dannenrod Forest /  Winner of the Best Documentary at Snowdance film festival. We hear about the success of occupations such as at Hammerbach Forest where a coal mine has been stopped. Civil disobedience is hard in a capitalist society but  even defeats  build social capital and a new way of communicating to prepare us for the  future.

https://watch.eventive.org/transitionsfilmfestival2022/play/61b730f35c1b...

Dr Ruth Adler -  Former 3CR presenter and diplomat. She was the Australian Ambassador in Ireland and has served also in Brunei, Mexico and The Philippines. She is  now an  expert on the Green Climate Fund Her thesis is titled ‘Finance in the Paris Agreement climate regime: governance, legitimacy and prospects for justice’

In this year of accountability we hear about how Canada and Germany are leading with a plan to deliver green finance to low income countries.

https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2021/11/climate-f...

We talk about how the money must flow to local representatives and the difficulty for such people to have  a seat at the table. 

https://www.greenclimate.fund/projects

Amelia Goonerage - Youth delegate to COP 26 and masters student at Melbourne University

Music by Dee Yan Key. Song of the harp maidens/ Lied des Hafenmadchens

Climate Activists  take note of how fossil fuel money may be buying attacks on democracy in Canada.

https://www.theenergymix.com/2022/02/11/this-is-sedition-ottawa-insurrec...

Good news from NSW

The New South Wales (NSW) Government announced it would permanently end all offshore oil, gas and mineral mining in NSW waters. 

This means no more oil and gas rigs off the coast of Australia’s most populated state - FOREVER.

Viv, this is a win for all ocean lovers, and the advocacy groups and communities who have rallied hard for years in a bid to protect their local marine ecosystems and avoid irreversible changes to the Earth’s climate.

If this gets you excited, now’s the time to turn that energy into action!

Message from Senator Peter Whish Wilson for the Greens