Climate Action Show

• Payed for Lies

  Rosie provides an update on the current demolition of the Flemington Public Housing Tower and the small rallies and communities still fighting agaisnt Homes Victoria as well as sits down with Christian Downie to discuss his part in co-authoring new book: "Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment", all about exploring Big Tech, Big Ag, Big Business and Big Oil's place in slowing and sabotaging meaningul action to address the climate crises. Shae continues our deep dive in climate misinformation and disinformation by sitting down and talking with Philip Newell, chairperson from Climate Action Against Disinformation, about their work in holding Big Tech responsible for their part in disseminating climate mis/disinformation. Lastly, Shae and Bella discuss their thoughts on Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee's opinion article "A Ghost's Life" on alternative ways to interact and receive climate information outside of news and science in wake of a sea of mis/disinformation online. If you're interested in attending GMA's Music Meetup this Sunday, 14.12.2025, this is the link to RSVP.A huge thank you to our guests on today's program, Christian Downie, Philip Newell as well as Duff, Captain Kangaroo (Jim), Sandra & newly recent 3CR subscriber Charlotte.

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• RUNA KHAN. "FRIENDSHIP" and MANGROVE RESTORATION

  CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWDECEMBER 1ST 2025PRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORD RUNA KHAN WINS EARTHSHOT PRIZE THE HOLISTIC WORK OF "FRIENDSHIP" AND ITS MANGROVE RESTORATION IS RECOGNISED IN RIO This show is dedicated to the memory of the late Dr Saleemul Huq, Bangladeshi climate scientist, friend of this radio show and determined participant in every COP. Guests:Runa Khan Founder of Friendship NGOShamikh Badra - Palestinian Filmaker and speaker at a Rising Tide event in Sydney https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/28/palestinian-australian-assaulted-abused-sydney-train-not-hate-speech-ntwnfbRising Tide Speakers and audience at the Green Left Office. This show follows on our reporting from the Belem COP. Runa Khan attended that meeting in Brazil after receiving her one million pound prize from Earthshot in Rio. We hope that the methods demonstrated by Friendship in Bangladesh will be a model for other communities on flood prone deltas. "From its beginnings as a single floating hospital, Friendship has grown into a dedicated social purpose organisation. Today, it reaches more than 7.5 million people annually with healthcare services, provides over 8.3 million days of emergency food support, and gives more than 80,000 people access to safe drinking water in coastal areas." Now they are restoring mangroves which help fix the climate. Runa's values shine through in her description of restoring dignity to  refugees from Myanmar.Meanwhile, the UN has described  the violent displacement of Rohyngya people who are still fleeing to Bagladesh as genocide. Is there is a connection between the ample fossil fuels in Rakhine state and the genocide occuring there?It's not  a great leap to our second guest , Mr Shamikh Badra who describes the suffering of his Palestinian relatives in Gaza. As winter comes on their tents are awash with sewerage. He sees ecocide as well as genocide and like the Rohyngya  they are being displaced from a territory whose offshore oil and gas are coveted.The Gaza Marine Story -  by Michael Barron shows how  " recognition of Palestine, particularly by states with large oil firms registered in their jurisdiction, would effectively end the legal ambiguity, and provide the PA with not only a new secure source of income, but regular supplies of energy independent of Israel."The Guardian article by Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor  20th July 2025https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/20/recognised-palestinian-state-could-develop-disputed-gas-resources-expert-says The Earthshot PrizeFor over two decades, Friendship has worked in some of the most climate-vulnerable regions of Bangladesh — from the shifting river islands in the north to the cyclone-prone coastal belt and the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans. Our mission has always been guided by an integrated, human-centred approach that links the environment with social and economic development, through scalable, replicable, nature-based and locally-led development solutions.From dismantlable, relocatable schools, to solar villages, to floating hospitals, raised plinths, each of Friendship’s many interventions works in congruence with the other. Friendship’s mangrove afforestation programme — recognised under the Earthshot Prize — is the largest privately led initiative of its kind in Bangladesh. It combines nature-based and locally led adaptation to create climate and livelihood resilience. To date, the programme has planted over 650,000 trees across more than 200 hectares of mangroves, prepared an additional 120 hectares for future planting, and safeguarded 62 kilometres of vulnerable shoreline. Beyond environmental restoration, the initiative supports community livelihoods, strengthens coastal protection, and builds lasting ownership through participatory management.The mangrove forests shield villages from the worst impacts of deadly cyclones.  The Sundarbans on Bangladesh’s southern coast are sunject to terrible cyclones. In 2007 Cyclone Sidr killed over 3400people. By 2020 when Cyclone Amphan hit, with wind speeds of similar velocity (240km per hour!) only 109 lives were lost. This is due to the excellent early warning systems and community organisation.Now by restoring the mangrove forests they are protecting over 125,000 people to date. These mangrove forests also act as a major carbon sink, storing vast amounts of carbon and enabling communities to benefit from a “blue economy” future.

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• BELEM : NAVIGATING AGAINST THE END OF THE WORLD

  CLIMATE ACTION SHOW17th December 2025Produced by Vivien Langford and Antimony DeorBELEM : NAVIGATING AGAINST THE END OF THE WORLD Guests:Claudia Antunes - Journalist with Sumauma from the heart of the Amazon. She explains the innovative TROPICAL FORESTS FOREVER FACILITY launched by President Lula at COP30. Her excellent article below is TFFF, banking on capitalism to save the planet.https://sumauma.com/en/fundo-florestas-tropicais-para-sempre-uma-aposta-de-que-o-capitalismo-pode-salvar-o-planeta/ https://sumauma.com/en/amazonario/autor/claudia-antunes/ Liesa Clague - reading Yanomami womens manifesto "Navigating against the end of the world". She describes the birthright of Yanomami children to be born in the forest and our responsibility to protect it.https://sumauma.com/en/por-que-os-garimpeiros-comem-as-vaginas-das-mulheres-yanomami/ Jacinda Ardern and Christiana Figueres at COP30 in Belem. The talk about indigenous leadership and how this is front and centre in this Brazilian Conference in the heart of the Amazon Forest. Dr Antimony Deor in an interview with Jane Morton, explores how the Biotic Pump  theoretically cools the climate. Forests like the Amazon, if left intact, drive atmospheric moisture inland. This is achived by tree evaporating and condensing of large amounts of water vapour.   Jane argues that we could achieve 1 degree of climate cooling by protecting the worlds tropical forests. PROTECTING THE FOREST PROTECTORSMeanwhile, this message from Survival International shows us how hard it is going to be for Brazil and other countries to enforce the law and protect the guardians of the forest.November 17th 2025"While Indigenous land rights are under scrutiny at the COP 30 in Brazil, in the Sunday morning darkness on November 16, attackers descended on an Indigenous community far to the south of the country, opening fire — killing a Guarani Kaiowá leader and injuring four others.Guns blazing, 20 attackers descended on Pyelito Kue, a community of Guarani Kaiowá people who recently reoccupied part of their ancestral land. They shot Vicente Fernandes Vilhalva, 36, in the head, killing him. Four more Guarani people were injured as the gunmen opened fire and burned down the community’s shelters and belongings.......Almost all their land has been occupied by agribusiness and cattle ranches. Their resistance and attempts to reclaim the land have been met with brutal and often deadly attacks.Guarani families of Pyelito Kue have been forced to live in a cramped 97-hectare area, with little room to grow crops, for more than 10 years. With people going hungry, they reclaimed another part of their land in Iguatemipeguá I Indigenous Territory at the beginning of November. This patch of land, where Vicente was killed, is occupied by Fazenda Cachoeira, a massive cattle ranch leased by Agropecuária Santa Cruz and Agropecuária Guaxuma – cattle export companies.""Caroline Pearce, Executive Director of Survival International, said: “A week ago in Belém, President Lula recognized that Indigenous lands are key to combating climate change. He said “perhaps” not enough of their land has been properly recognized. Vicente’s death is the stark reality of that lack of recognition: Indigenous people being evicted, dispossessed, denied their land, their rights, their livelihoods – their very lives........ The government of Brazil must complete land recognition, protect their territories, and prosecute those who evicted them and continue to terrorize them.”https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQhez_zAVAF/You can contact President Lula :Presidência da República Federativa do BrasilPalácio do PlanaltoPraça dos 3 PoderesBrasília - DF / 70150-900 You can support Indigenous climate guardians through SURVIVAL INTERNATIONALhttps://survivalinternational.org/getinvolved

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• Climate Change VS Community Spaces

  With summer up and coming, there are heaps of festivals and live music events coming up too. These live music events help to make up Australia’s very rich and diverse arts and music culture, and bring communities together. Like every community centered spaces, festivals and live music are at risk from the increasing extreme and unpredictable weather, like flash flooding, fires, heat waves resulting in increasing insurance costs for festivals, possible cancelling or rescheduling of said festivals and higher ticket costs, all resulting in the possible extinction of these events, which are so important for community and culture building and bonding. Bella talks with Tim Shiel, Green Music Australia’s community organiser, about GMA’s recent report from earlier this year, "Rain, Heat, Repeat", and how its findings on consumer behaviour within festivals informs us how extreme weather can and will further effect live music events as well as solutions we need to action in order to save festivals from extinction, amongst many other things. Later, Bella and Shae discuss further the detriment of losing community-based spaces to climate change effects, as well as how communities can be more central in creating eco-friendly live events and festivals.

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• SOLACE IN KNOWING WHAT TO DO.

  CLIMATE ACTION SHOWOCTOBER 20THProduced by Vivien Langford THE  SOLACE  OF   KNOWING   WHAT  TO   DO DISASTERWISE CONFERENCE WITH SURVIVORS OF CLIMATE CHAOS Guests:Dr Jean Renouf - PLAN C -  Trains communities to be prepared for emergencies. The time is now. He spoke to the Disasterwise conference about  mentoring programmes PlanC provides  free to communities. They create networks of Community Carers and Responders. One group is among High School Students who learn how to care for each other during and after a crisis. One whole day is spent on learning about how dangerous disinformation and mis information can be for a community in an emergency.As Jean says " There is a solace in knowing what to do"  Bernadette Trench Thiedeman - Artist and film maker  "Disaster Conversations"  She speaks about connecting up people who have experienced disaster like her friend Natalie, whose house and whole community was innundated  by the flooding Fitroy River and an artist she met in Brazil whose community had been devastated by a killer landslide.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-04/brazil-fitzroy-crossing-remote-natural-disasters/104061642  Natalie Davey - Co Producer of Disaster Conversations   andBroadcaster at Fitzroy Crossing's Wangki Radio . Winner of Community Broadcasting Award Best Indigenous Broadcaster She speaks about the comfort of talking to people who have experienced the same huge loss of community as she has. She also describes how in COVID Times she and her father were helpful to their communities by broadcasting health messages in many different langauges. During the flood, their morning radio show tried to cheer the community and give useful information. They were a trusted voice and able to pass on messages   in contrast to the outside services who were often not so well connected. Listen to their podcasts here : https://www.wangki.org.au/shows/danggujarra/

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