Resources

Podcasts and Youtube channels

Climate Science translated, what are tipping points? What is methane? Why is the melting of the arctic so scary? Kiri Meets Bill

Vandana Shiva – a leading ecofeminist and anti-globalisation activist

While studying atmospheric physics at Oxford, “Climate Adam” realised that the biggest gaps aren’t in our research, but in public climate understanding.  ClimateAdam.https://www.climateadam.co.uk/ 

As the climate crisis looms ever larger, a critical question has taken the stage: is economic growth incompatible with ecological sustainability? Green growth and degrowth proponents take staunchly different stances, but they do agree on one thing: overhauling the current economic growth model is necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change and ecological degradation. How to do it, on the other hand, is up for debate. How to Save the Planet: Degrowth versus Green Growth

Discussion on the Transition Movement – from oil dependency to local resiliance. The episode discusses Using Imagination to change Cities with researchers, policy makers, activists and artists.

This channel seeks to understand the issues that face our civilisation in the 21st Century and focusses on the potential solutions that will save as many lives as possible and hopefully bring about a greater level of equality in the world Just have a Think

Kevin Anderson on the Uncomfortable Link Between  Climate and Equity

Why commit to a carbon budget for 1.5 degrees by Zero Hour

Why we need to restore nature – Zero Hour

A joint emergency strategy (Zero Hour)

The science of climate emergency by Dr Aaron Thierry. If we were to warm the planet by three degrees we are leaving the stability of the Holocene to which all our infrastructure (agriculture, flood protections and so on) has been built….

The Great Simplification is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Through conversations with experts and leaders hosted by Dr. Nate Hagens, it explores topics spanning ecology, economics, energy, geopolitics, human behavior, and monetary/financial systems.

The Great Simplification Website https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/

Listen to what the IPCC Final Report 2023 says

Podcast: On Doughnut Economy 

Podcast: Beavers in Business – on Shared Planet

Podcast:The Climate Apocalypse and the rest is history

Listen to the speech by Juan Pablo Gutierrez on why the climate crisis is a colonial crisis

Learn about the Kogi’s (Colombia) ecological warning through https://www.alunathemovie.com/

 

Campaigns & Tribunals

The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) organises regular tribunals on the Rights of Nature.

What is Ecocide? Learn about it through the Stop Ecocide International

We Own It, demands that the government takes shares in water and not fines.

Learn how local groups in the UK engage directly with MPs (politicians) on urgent climate matters. https://www.mpwatch.org/

Reports and Guides

According to the UN Emissions Gap 2024 report, the projected increase of the world’s average temperature is 2,6 °C this century. The predicted 2030 greenhouse gases of the world still need to decrease by 42 per cent for the 1.5°C pathway set in the Paris Agreement, and 28 per cent for the 2 °C pathway. To scale down rapidly in energy use, countries need measures that maximize socio-economic and environmental co-benefits while reducing trade-offs, a minimum six-fold increase in mitigation investment, backed up by a reform of the global financial architecture and strong private sector action. This particularly applies to the G20 countries and their largest emitters.

The WWF Living Planet 2024 report records that over the past 50 years (1970–2020), the average size of monitored wildlife populations has shrunk by 73%.

Feminist Climate Action  Feminist-climate-justice-A-framework-for-action-en.pdf

Language has the power both to oppress and to liberate. Learn about it through the Inclusive Language Guide. 

Europe has the largest and wealthiest economy in the world. Nevertheless, there is a great diversity of pollution across the continent.

Coalitions in NY: Earth Day, Friends of the Earth, Friday’s for Future, Greenpeace, Green Faith 

Oxfam Paper ridding GDP in favour of feminist and decolonial economies

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (under UN) – model scenarios

Abiding to the Paris Agreement, Parties (countries) shall periodically take stock of its implementation to assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of the Agreement and its long-term goals.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service records that  2024 saw the global average temperature exceed the 1.5°C limit above the preindustrial average set by the Paris Agreement

Media

We are not equally to blame for rising temperatures The richest 10% of people in many countries cause up to 40 times more climate-heating carbon emissions than the poorest 10% of their fellow citizens, according to data obtained by the Guardian.

Future Generations rights and our inability to make decisions based on long-term (which is a case for increasing citizen participation in decision making)

Read about how civilisational collapse is an opportunity for civilisational renewal The Collapse of Civilisation is an Unprecedented Opportunity

A photo report on dissappearing glaciers in Peru

Read about women’s community building and feminist democracy making in Rojava

Six out of nine planetary boundaries have been breached. Access here to the science behind.

Academic Articles

Read about safe and just Earth system boundaries

About a good life for all that is possible within planetary boundaries, and the adjustments we need to make.

Read about the need to delink growth from wellbeing in ‘Whose growth in whose planetary boundaries? Decolonising planetary justice in the Anthropocene”, by Farhana Sultana GEO: Geography and Environment – Wiley Online Library

A recent study suggests that if warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C this century, by the end of the century mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming, which is comparable with involuntary or negligent manslaughter Quantifying Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide Energy Policy

Read about how to navigate loss and value trade-offs in  changing climate (Australia)

Read about the Politics of the Anthropocene

A decolonial critique on the Anthropocene concept “Environmental Justice And The Anthropocene Meme” by Giovanna Di Chiro

On Knowledge and Wisdom  access to Slides