CLIMATE ACTION SHOW

MARCH 2ND 2026

Produced by Vivien Langford

F I G H T I N G not  D R O W N I N G

FROM BELEM TO SANTA MARTA - Part 2 -THE FIRST INTERNATI0NAL CONFERENCE ON  TRANSITIONING AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS - Yes Just that!

Guests: 

Daniela Duran Gonzalez - Head of the Office of International Affairs

Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development in Colombia

Patrica Suarez - a Murui Indigenous woman, advisor to the general coordinating body of the National Organisation of Indigenous Peoples of the Colombian Amazon (OPIAC)

Tasneem Essop - Executive Director of Climate Action Network International the largest global network of over 1,300 civil society organisations, in over 120 countries, fighting the climate crisis.

Alex Rafalowicz - Executive Director of the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty Initiative.  Santa Marta "will be quite a large and historic event that will draw through thinking about how can we address the challenges that we have for realising the phase-out”

Film : FIGHTING NOT DROWNING by C. Mackenzie

A short film and showing how Pacific Students with the diplomatic support of The Hon Ralph Regenvanu of Vanuatu, took a case to the International Court of Justice.

As Philippe Sands says " A single line from the ICJ can be used in National courts around the world" you will hear voices from this film but please watch it.-  available on Youtube

As Julian Aguon, author, Indigenous human rights lawyer and founder of Blue Ocean Law says,“I’m trying to use the law to wrap my arms around what I most love and wish to protect.”  

Thanks to the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative for permission to broadcast material from their webinar and film.