Be Loud: Climate

We are back after a short hiatus, ready for 2022! Keran and Rux discuss where they've been, including the post-COP26 burnout. Then Keran and Rux will discuss how much of climate change should you feel responsible for - should you be swopping out all plastics, stopping your international travel and going vegan? You might be surprised by the answer... 

Rux is traveling again for the Erasmus+ youth exchange and is coming to you live from Latvia! Meanwhile Keran meets Karen Rossell again to discuss all things carbon! We discuss what we mean by 'carbon' and the relationship to CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We also discuss common carbon terminology such as carbon capture, sequestration, offsetting, insetting and direct air capture, featuring the brand new Climeworks ORCA direct air capture project in Iceland. IT'S A CARBON BONANZA! Don't forget to follow us on twitter and instagram @beloudclimate. 

This week’s episode will blow your mind. Rux and Keran look at climate education in the UK speaking with Friends of the Earth, Teach the Future, Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum and SOS UK about where we stand with the current curriculum, as well as resources for educators looking to start including climate change in their classrooms. This is a must listen, and listeners can expect more content on this topic in the future! A full list of resources is available online. Follow us on IG and Twitter @ beloudclimate

In the inaugural episode of the season 2, Keran and Rux discuss the concept at the very heart of Be Loud: Climate: Climate literacy. They discuss the role of education and the news media, the responsibility of journalism to educate citizens and the huge challenges that exist in building a climate literate global population. You'll also hear from exciting new launches from Be Loud, some of the upcoming plans and more about Rux's awesome summer of fun.

Rux speaks to Wesley Maraire (Founder of Tiritose Sustainable Travel Agency, and Doctor of Philosophy in Law from the University of Cape Town) and Caroline Wangechi (tours and travel consultant, Kenya) about community interactions when we travel. While the episode doesn't have a focus on climate change, we discuss ideas such as "othering" and Orientalism and briefly dive into the idea of volunteer tourism (voluntourism). 

On this week's episode, we continue our discussion with ActionAid NL policy advisor, Nils Mollema. Keran and Nils discuss fossil fuels in the developing countries, what people can do to make small changes and Nils answers the question "do you consider yourself to be a climate activist?" 

This week's episode of the Be Loud: Climate podcast is the first part of our interview with ActionAid NL policy advisor, Nils Mollema. At the time of the interview, a Dutch court had just ordered Royal Dutch Shell (the fossil fuel company) to cut their emissions by 45% by 2030 to bring it in line with Paris Agreement obligations. Nils and Keran discussed the importance of this judgment and how these sorts of cases will bring accountability in a just transition.

On this episode of the Be Loud Climate podcast, we interview Anna Watson, a former event producer, turned phd candidate and sustainability consultant. Anna talks about how her career in conference production led her to her PhD topic in clean energy systems, a reflection on how we should be reconnecting with the natural world in our daily lives and how the UK energy system is transitioning towards renewable energy.

On this episode of the #beloudclimate podcast, we speak with Karen Rossell of the Applied Negative Emissions Centre on all things related to emissions, net zero and carbon capture. We discuss the ways in which organisations define net zero and the types of questions that you can ask to find out more about how robust their net zero goals actually are. 

On this week’s episode of the Be Loud: Climate podcast, Keran interviews Anna Lungley, the chief sustainability officer of Dentsu International - one of the worlds largest advertising networks. They talk about the role of CSO, the pervasiveness of ESG goals within a truly sustainable organisation, Dentsu’s goals around net zero and how they influence their clients to do better for the planet.

On this episode of the Be Loud: Climate podcast, Rux and Keran interview climate icon, Dr Sarah Burch, who is an associate professor at the University of Waterloo and IPCC author. We speak to Sarah about embedding sustainability into SMEs (small and medium sized enterprise), the intersectionality of climate change as a social issue and how businesses can transform their communities through their own climate friendly practices. Sarah is also one of the speakers on Climate Literacy, a youtube series about the broader context of climate change.

In this week’s episode of the Be Loud: Climate podcast, Rux interviews Alex Ray who is a former UNDP communications lead and was based in Timor Leste during the tropical cyclone which caused mass devastation and loss of human life in April 2021. Alex relays the conditions in Timor Leste on topics such as basic education, healthcare and disaster preparedness prior to the cyclone, as well as the potential outlook for future climate related disasters on the island. Although shocking, this account of the impacts of climate related natural disasters is a reality for developing countries as the climate worsens and provides valuable perspective on the vast disparity between developed and developing countries as far as the impact of climate change.

This Earth Day we are discussing climate justice and things that you can do as an individual to mitigate your own carbon footprint whilst being mindful of the issue of climate justice. We feature clips from interviews with climate activists Kelo Uchendu and Godiya Zambwa who discuss climate justice in terms of their experience in their local communities. We will give you some helpful tips to live a greener life and the disproportionate impact of climate change on developing countries and rural communities. This episode will give you some serious food for thought.

In this episode, Keran and Rux discuss nature-based solutions and some of the commonplace examples that are currently being used, including plastic made out of fish waste and kelp farming to help restore our oceans. Rux tells us about the book written by Bren Smith ‘Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer’ and Keran interviews ICRIER research assistant Tarun Singh on the application of nature-based solutions in urban areas.

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This week on the Be Loud: Climate podcast, we spoke with Joe Hill of One Planet Pizza. If this name sounds familiar to you, you may have seen their product in your weekly Ocado shop. Joe is one half of the father-son duo on a mission to save the world one slice of pizza at a time.

Saving the planet with pizza? Now that’s activism we can all get behind.

Keran and Rux also debate the term activism, what it means and what counts as activism. 

In this very special first episode, Keran and Rux chat about the difficulty of balancing the needs to bring diversity to industry conferences whilst not using those leaders are token diversity speakers, whether it is appropriate to use cutesy names for female leaders and their top picks for sustainability leaders who have influenced them. 

For a full description of the leaders mentioned in this podcast, head over to our website http://be-loud.com.