12 Days of COP
Every day of #COP26 in #Glasgow, award winning journalist & presenter and #climate campaigner Peg Alexander chats with people from all over the world about different aspects of the issues that #COP needs to get to grips with if the world is to meet the #ParisClimateAgreement. No more business as usual. In partnership with academic thinktank The Green Economics Institute. @TVRadioPeg
Episodes
13 episodes
Bonus episode : Coping with Climate Anxiety
In another bonus episode of the podcast, Peg Alexander is joined by Youth Advocate of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Rhiannon Hawkins to discuss climate anxiety and eco distress. Rhiannon believes that taking what action we can in our own ...
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Episode 14
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12:35
Bonus : How did it go? Good COP or Cop Out with Natalie Bennett
Now its over, the deal is done. But was it a good cop, or a total copout? Peg Alexander chats with member of the UK House of Lords, Natalie Bennett.
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Episode 13
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Day 11 : Transport - communities in control
Today Peg Alexander talks transport with Richard Walker of Leeds University and decarboN8. Can a place based carbon calculator help individuals and communities to make better decisions about their local carbon footprint? We also get a bit Leeds...
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Episode 11
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Day 10 : The missing $100bn. Social & climate justice
Todays episode, *12 Days of #COP26* Peg Alexander chats with ex MEP Jean Lambert. Jean has spent many years developing and negotiating international initiatives and been a key European campaigner on issues of #socialjustice and #climatejistice....
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Episode 10
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15:42
Day 9 : Cool, trendy & sustainable? Fashion & the Paris Agreement.
Today Peg talks with Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas, expert in sustainable and ethical fashion at the British School of Fashion. We talk about how the fashion and clothing industry is one of the biggest contributors to climate change and pollut...
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12:36
Day 8 : Interconnectedness - agriculture, social justice & going vegan
Today Peg Alexander chats with young Polish activist, Morgan Janowicz. We talk about how everything is connected - climate change, social justice and animal rights. Morgan feels agriculture isn’t being discussed enough at #COP26 and wants more ...
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Episode 8
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12:56
Day 7 : The biggest polluters - military spending v environment
Today Peg Alexander chats with Dr Lionel Ehtesham in #India about the amounts of money that the top polluting countries spend on the environment v what they spend on #arms and #defence. We also talk specifically about India.#COP26 #COP2...
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Episode 7
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12:43
Day 6 : Individual activism v system and government change
Today Peg Alexander chats with one of her heroes, Adam Smith, founder of the #junkfood #payasyoufeel movement. From a small local project in the #UK, Adam create a movement that went worldwide in not much more than a year. So on the day that th...
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Episode 6
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14:07
Day 5: Renewable energy, electricity, tech & Brazil
Today Peg Alexander chats with Brazilian engineer Gabrielle Sousa e Silva Hiltmann. Gabrielle works in the solar industry and we talk renewables, the rush to electricity, the discussion at #COP26 so far about coal. Can we tech our way out of th...
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Episode 5
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12:16
Day 4 : Africa bearing the brunt of climate change
Today Peg Alexander talks with Krystel Sil Sikana @Kryshsil about how Africa is being impacted now by #climatechange. Currently in #Glasgow at #COP26 #COP26Glasgow, Krystel argues it is bearing the brunt, with real challenges around both #clima...
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Episode 4
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12:18
Day 3 : Plastics and 1.5 degrees. Connected or not?
Today Peg Alexander chats with Rasa Tumaševičiūtė, #circulareconomy expert from #Lithuania about #plastic and the Paris agreement. How and why does plastic impact on whether or not we can hit the Paris agreement target of 1.5 degrees. It does a...
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13:51
Day 2 : The youth voice at the heart of the climate issue
Today Peg Alexander chats with 20 year old sustainable development expert Ana Diaz Vidal @aanndv from Spain about #COP26 from the perspective of a young person. Where does individual activism fit in with #COP26Glasgow and a key element of...
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Episode 2
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Day 1 : What's possible at COP with Natalie Bennett
Journalist, commentator and presenter Peg Alexander kicks off the #COPCast #Podcast by chatting with #UK #Peer Baroness Natalie Bennett @NatalieBen, a #COP veteran. We talk how COP works, what's the best that can be achieved, how we can all inf...
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Episode 1
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