Janine O’Keeffe and Stefan Gsänger present the Empower4Climate Podcast focussing on how mankind’s biggest challenge, the climate crisis, can be tackled based on bottom-up approaches. Millions of people around the globe are ready to act for the climate but often they are hindered by political, mental and economic barriers. Janine and Stefan discuss in 45 minutes how to overcome these hurdles and how people can be empowered. For this purpose, they will talk about the latest developments in the ongoing climate catastrophe and energy with climate and renewable energy experts from around the world, both from industrialised as well from the developing countries.
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Janine O’Keeffe and Stefan Gsänger present the Empower4Climate Podcast focussing on how mankind’s biggest challenge, the climate crisis, can be tackled based on bottom-up approaches. Millions of people around the globe are ready to act for the climate but often they are hindered by political, mental and economic barriers. Janine and Stefan discuss in 45 minutes how to overcome these hurdles and how people can be empowered. For this purpose, they will talk about the latest developments in the ongoing climate catastrophe and energy with climate and renewable energy experts from around the world, both from industrialised as well from the developing countries.
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June 2, 2023
Sabotage for the climate? A court case from Sweden | Stefan Gsänger interviews Janine O’Keeffe
As the climate crisis is more and more escalating without appropriate reactions from governments, climate activists have started new forms of protest, including civil disobedience. Many of those cases have landed at courts and some public prosecutors have recently started action against climate groups which aim at criminalising whole organisations. Consequently, even the United Nations warned against one-sided, undemocratic action against climate groups. Janine O’Keeffe is not only co-host of this podcast empower4climate, but also one of the founders of the new climate movement, starting in Sweden in 2018 and spreading across the globe. She has been involved in civil disobedience protest, by stopping traffic on a freeway in May 2022, and she will soon face her case to be processed at a Swedish court. Stefan talks with Janine about why she sees the need to use such forms of protest, how she will justify her activities and how she expects the courts to decide. Which ways of action and protest promise to bring the necessary results, the effective mitigation of the climate crisis?
May 26, 2023
How the Renewable Energy Movement started in Denmark and spread around the World | with Jane Kruse, Nordic Folkecenter, Denmark
Already in the 1970s and 1980s, triggered by the oil crises, growing environmental concerns and nuclear accidents with devastating consequences, there was a growing movement of people who saw renewable energy - wind power, solar energy, bioenergy, geothermal energy and hydropower - as the perfect answer. The movement started from the bottom up in many countries, and Denmark in particular played an important role. One of the most important organisations was the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, which was founded 40 years ago. The centre disseminated information about how renewable energy worked in practice, using the technologies on the ground and educating and training hundreds and thousands of people from Denmark, all over Europe and the world. We talk to Jane Kruse, co-founder and director of the Folkecenter, about the historical developments, but also about the importance of such bottom-up movements today. Jane has not only led the work of the Folkecenter together with her late husband Preben Maegaard, but has also been involved in various renewable energy cooperatives that have become a mainstream model in Denmark and spread throughout Europe. How can our societies be mobilised for the great energy transformation and what role does the climate movement play in this process?
May 11, 2023
What are key messages from the IPCC report? With Muhammad Irfan Tariq (IPCC), Pakistan
The 6th Assessment Report AR6 published recently by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC has conveyed a very clear message: The climate crisis is already a reality, many of the predictions climate scientists made in the past are coming decades before predicted. And AR6 has become even more precise as it focuses for the first time not only on global, but also on regional changes, thus giving an even more precise outlook to what the world expects if mankind doesnt act fast enough. One reason why there is now a stronger focus on regional aspects is that the IPCC has become more inclusive, with more and more experts contributing also the perspective of the so-called developing world. A very prominent example is our guest Muhammad Irfan Tariq who joined the Government of Pakistan in 1991 and has been involved in the climate negotiations since the Rio Summit in 1992. Subsequently, he served in important positions, including as Director General at the Ministry for Climate Change. In that role, he was also the National Focal Point for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Vice Chair of the IPCC Working Group-II. Stefan and Janine will discuss the AR6 report with Muhammaed Tariq aiming at getting a better understanding of the IPCC’s work and how it has evolved in the light of the escalating climate crisis. What does AR6 tell us with regard to how different parts of the earth are affected in very different ways and what does this mean for the need not only to combat climate change effectively but also to show international solidarity with the most vulnerable countries?
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