Climate Africa Now Podcast

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This report conversation highlights the diverse livelihood strategies of young people living in Uganda, the impacts of climate change on their lives, and the adaptation and mitigation strategies that they have employed to address the crisis so far. By foregrounding views of young people, our conversations presents a vivid picture of how climate disruptions are already impacting young people. These impacts are set to intensify in the coming decades.

Miss Earth is a major international beauty pageant that advocates for environmental awareness, conservation and social responsibility.  It is the third-largest beauty pageant in the world in terms of the  number of national-level competitions to participate in the world  finals. We catch up with Uganda's miss earth reclaiming mother earth.

Education is crucial to promote climate action. It helps people understand and address the impacts of the climate crisis, empowering them with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes needed to act as agents of change. In this episode, we are joined by Climate Operation Founder, Heizal Nagginda to explore the work that their organization does in mainstreaming climate education in rural and urban communities in Africa. 

Presented by KQ Hub Africa with Support from the Africa Europe Foundation New Partners Initiative, the Climate Africa Now Podcast is a weekly audio-visual podcast series highlighting, engaging young climate advocates, influencers and policymakers in empowering conversations that connect all aspects of the climate emergency in Africa. The podcast seeks to explore in dialogue issues around - the individual and the systemic, the scary and the exciting – to deepen communities understanding of the most critical issue of our time as told by African Climate Champions and Activists. This Podcast is hosted by Uwera Portia and Wabwire Joseph Ian ( Our Executive Creative Director)

Young people’s unprecedented mobilization around the world shows the  massive power they possess to hold decision-makers accountable. Their  message is clear: the older generation has failed, and it is the young  who will pay in full — with their very futures.Young people are not only victims of climate change. They are also  valuable contributors to climate action. They are agents of change,  entrepreneurs and innovators. Whether through education, science or  technology, young people are scaling up their efforts and using their  skills to accelerate climate action.

The media is an important player in cli­mate change com­mu­nic­a­tion –  the general population does not read sci­entific reports, spe­cialist  web­sites and blogs, or the reports of the IPCC. Although in theory, the  ‘facts’ of cli­mate change sci­ence should be reported in a  straight­for­ward way by news­pa­pers and tele­vi­sion net­works,  con­sid­er­able dif­fer­ences exist between the edit­orial lines taken  by dif­ferent media organizations about the reality and ser­i­ous­ness  of cli­mate change. Perhaps unsur­pris­ingly, there is a strong  rela­tion­ship between the polit­ical per­spective of a media  organization and its pos­i­tion on cli­mate change.