Climate Successes and Setbacks: Preparing For COP27

Insightful, moving – and an urgent call to action In the latest in our Climate Conversation series, activist Mitzi Jonelle Tan speaks to Professors Lorraine Whitmarsh and Saleemul Huq about how we can strengthen vital human structures and processes, from cities to food systems, to manage climate change. What can we do to increase climate resilience? Is climate resilience something that is always possible? Does it solve the problem or only buy us time? And what will a more climate-resilient future look like, as opposed to one in which resilience remains limited?

Antarctica currently has very little sea ice – the lowest ever recorded. What are the causes and likely consequences of this reduction? Host Ade Adepitan speaks to CCAG experts including Professor Nerile Abram, Sir David King and Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, as well as our guests senior research scientist Ted Scambos and and sea ice expert Dr Petra Heil.

In the latest episode in our Climate Conversations series, climate activisti Mitzi Jonelle Tan speaks to Henry Dimbleby MBE and CCAG's Sir David King about the critical need to develop ways of producing food which do not cost the earth.

As the countdown to COP27 begins, CCAG looks back at the significant events and moments that have happened since COP26 whether environmental or political.  In this special edition, celebrating the first anniversary of CCAG's founding, we also take questions from the public on their concerns around the climate crisis. Join us as we gather to have crucial discussions on how countries are performing against their climate promises and other topics surrounding the climate emergency facing our planet. The overall hope is that we can provide the public, government, and decision makers with the most comprehensive science, guiding us all towards a better, greener, and more environmentally friendly future for humanity.

Ade Adepitan hosts the CCAG panel with former BBC science editor David Shukman, New Scientist journalist and podcast host Rowan Hooper, the Brazilian climate journalist Meghie Rodrigues and Jon Burke, UK decarbonisation expert.  We also have contributions from Daffa Praditya, activist from Fridays for Future and postdoctoral research associate Jooeun Yoon.

Climate activist Mitzi Jonelle Tan speaks to Professor Johan Rockström and journalist George Monbiot. 

The CCAG panel is joined by special guests Jayashree Nandi (journalist at the Hindustan Times), Daffa Praditya (activist from Fridays for Future Indonesia), Tanmay Tackle (Special Advisor to the Minister for Environment & Climate Change in the Government of Maharashtra), and Devi Lockwood (Author and Ideas editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer). 

Ugandan climate activist Rose Kobusinge speaks to CCAG's Professor Mark Maslin, alongside Anthony Costello, Professor of Global Health and Sustainable Development at UCL, and Dr Marina Romanellon, Research Director at Lancet Countdown.

Welcome to our new Climate Conversations series. In this insightful and moving conversation climate activist Mitzi Jonelle Tan speaks to CCAG's Dr Tero Mustonen and TV presenter and paralympic medallist Ade Adepitan. Let us know what you think of this new format and look out for new epsidoes coming soon! 

What must be achieved this year to keep hopes of a manageable future alive?  Hosted by Ade Adepitan, join the CCAG panel hosted and our guests: author Kim Stanley Robinson, journalist and campaigner George Monbiot, Forbes senior writer David Vetter, and campaigners Ng'endo Machua and Tolmeia Gregory.