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2019-01-06 The Paris Agreement at Three
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In its infancy, the Paris Agreement carried the promise of a truly global climate solution. Supporters still say the Agreement is the first step in...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
2018-12-23 The Big Climate Stories of 2018
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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We’re making a list (and checking it twice) of 2018’s biggest climate stories, with the help of Vox reporter David Roberts. Roberts noted that whil...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
The Earth Law Center
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss The Earth Law Center, a New York-based environmental non-profit organization that is dedicated to t...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 05:19
2018-12-09 Fire and Water: A Year of Climate Conversations
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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From fires and floods to hurricanes and hot temperatures, 2018 put climate on the front page in ways it hadn’t been before. Yet amidst the disrupti...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
Understanding the Value of the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Biodiversity in the Maldives , Credit: Husian, Flikr
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss publications, reports, and projects integral to the evolution of ocean policy and science, includin...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 05:17
2018-11-25 Holiday Films on Corn, Coal, Lights, and Flights
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It’s a holiday movie special as Climate One talks to the directors/producers of four recent documentaries that bring human drama to the climate sto...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Polar Silk Road in 2018
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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On the heels of the Arctic Circle Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland in October, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill offers some additional thoughts o...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2018
  • Length: 05:08
Arctic Circle Update
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Arctic Circle Conference, an annual gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland
This week on World Ocean Radio we provide our annual observations on the Arctic Circle Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. This year's report highlig...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2018
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 3
Three Arctic Roads and a Melting Sea Highway
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: From "The Sea Ice is Our Highway: An Inuit Perspective on Transportation in the Arctic" a contribution to the Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment, Credit: Inuit Circumpolar Council, CANADA
The first Arctic highway was the sea: a moving, shifting, frozen system that allowed its inhabitants to be sustained for generations. Since 1974, t...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:57
Climate Refugees: Reaping the Whirlwind
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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2018 was a summer of extremes: hurricanes, wildfires, drought, floods, heat, earthquakes, tsunami. It's increasingly evident that human interventio...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2018
  • Length: 05:19
2018-10-14 Climate Press Pool: Robert Gibbs and Jeff Nesbit
From: Climate One
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Climate used to have bipartisan support. Now that the Republican party is skeptical about fighting climate, companies are moving into a leadership ...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
C1 Fundraiser
From: Climate One
Caption: L-R: Bill Nye, Jane Goodall, Al Gore
Former Vice-President Al Gore, famed primatologist Jane Goodall, and TV scientist-turned-activist Bill Nye are three climate veterans who have lost...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 40:55
  • Purchases: 2
2018-09-30 Let's Talk Climate Solutions
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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On the eve of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS), we started the conversation about how solutions could be led by states, cities, businesses a...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
2018-09-16 Farm to Table 2.0: Chefs Cutting Carbon
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Can a menu at a fancy restaurant be a map for solving the climate challenge? A handful of high-end chefs are using their restaurants to show how in...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Climate Insurance in a Changing World
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: March 11, 2011 In Otsuchi, Japan following the 9.0 earthquake and devastating Tsunami, Credit: Tarah Millen/Marine Photobank
As climate change is continually felt everywhere on the planet, how might we protect against the impacts of extreme weather, sea level rise, and mo...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2018
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 3
2018-07-29 We’re Doomed – Now What?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Dr. Matthew Fox
Can changing our consciousness hold off the climate apocalypse? When we think about the enormity of climate change and what it’s doing to our plane...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
2018-07-22 Conversations with Climate Storytellers
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: L-R: Andrew Revkin, Elizabeth Kolbert, David Roberts
Science and environmental reporter Andrew Revkin has been writing about climate change since the 1980s, including 21 years for The New York Times. ...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Farmers and Fishers
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Humankind has for centuries been connected to the cycles of the year for sustenance from land and sea. We have built our communities and our spirit...

  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 05:41
2018-05-20 Paris Progress Report
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In June 2017, President Trump announced his plan to withdraw the country from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, claiming it disadvantaged the United S...

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  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
Earth Day
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Earth from the International Space Station, Credit: NASA Johnson
On April 22nd we celebrated Earth Day, a day set aside each year to celebrate the environmental movement of the 70s to demand action for the health...

  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 04:49
2018-05-06 Selling the Science of Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: David Fenton, Founder and Chairman, Fenton Communications
The scientific consensus is that human activity is cooking the planet and disrupting our economies. Yet many people still don’t believe that climat...

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  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Modern Day Waste: Solutions for Repurposing, Recycling and Profiting
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: https://www.hindustantimes.com/photos/world-news/photos-spotlight-on-reducing-plastic-waste-clogging-oceans/photo-OFMThFTnYNAAL9foFlgwcN.html, Credit: Andres Stapff/REUTERS
Waste and waste management are new and increasing challenges in recent decades. How do we dispose of toxic waste, plastic packaging, electronics, a...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 04:55
Nature and the Rule of Law, part two
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part 2 of a two-part series on environmental law, host Peter Neill provides a series of examples of systems w...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 05:14
Nature and the Rule of Law, part one
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill outlines laws that are intended to protect Nature and its resources--water, fresh air, food,...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 05:17
2018-04-08 Exposed: Dieselgate's Impact on the Auto Industry
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Volkswagen’s brazen cheating on air pollution rules rocked an industry with a history of skulduggery. The scandal has now cost the company $30 bill...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4