Climate Action Show

Produced by Vivien Langford

April 20th 2026

Professor ELISA MORGERA U.N. SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE 

LAURA RESTREPO FROM CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK LATIN AMERICA

SANTA MARTA : Episode 4.

In this forth episode about Santa Marta we speak to two real champions of climate action. Professor Elisa Morghera is a dynamic element in the UN system which often gets bogged down. Her report makes it imperative to defossilize our economies.  Laura Restrepo is part of a great network of civil society groups all over Latin America trying to preserve rainforest, accelerate the transition to renewable energy and fend off first the fossil fuels and now  the un- regulated critical minerals industry.

As Laura in Colombia says

"This is not about a loss of power. The transition is about a new way of understanding power. For us this is a profound act of courage.

Elisa says :

"Failure of a State to take appropriate action to protect the climate system from GHG emissions — including through hashtag#FossilFuel production, consumption, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies — may constitute an internationally wrongful act which is attributable to that State"

Santa Marta is a game-changer for hashtag#HumanRights!

Check out her brilliant report 

https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ahrc5942-imperative-...