Climate Justice Central Podcast

As the world turns to renewable energy, Senegal is poised to become an exporter of fossil fuels. This move has been met with high expectations, but also with considerable scepticism and criticism. Ibrahima Thiam, project manager at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Dakar, has been following Senegal's oil and gas boom for years. While he is very critical of the enthusiasm for fossil fuels, he se...

In recent years, Cabo Delgado, a coastal province in northern Mozambique, has become synonymous with vast natural gas reserves and the promise of economic prosperity. At the same time, the extraction of these resources has been accompanied by violent conflict and environmental concerns. We talk to Alexandre Nhampossa, an environmental journalist from Mozambique, about false hopes and the hypocrisy...

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline was supposed to transport oil from Uganda to Tanzania. Even before the project has reached financial close, it has turned sour. Communities and ecosystems around the pipeline are expecting a trail of destruction and environmental degradation. In this episode, journalist Onke Ngcuka talks about how women and children are already being negatively affected, and how...

Oil and gas companies, mostly from the global north, have set their sights on the African continent in the hopes of striking liquid gold, and Namibia has not been spared. Seismic surveys and drilling for oil and gas have already begun in the Okavango Delta, one of Africa's last great natural sanctuaries, a pristine and rich wilderness home to vast concentrations of wildlife. Teneal Koorts, a N...

As the science-backed calls for the end of fossil fuel grow louder, energy companies are scrambling for raw materials across the African continent, and South Africa’s coastlines haven’t been spared. Social justice reporter and RLS climate justice fellow Lerato Mutsila speaks to me, Onke Ngcuka, about the activity that Total has been conducting on the shores of the country. Mutsila not only touches...

"We are currently on track to extract and burn more than twice the amount of fossil fuels that we're allowed to extract and burn by 2030. And as you know, 2030 on the climate clock, that's the day after tomorrow." Our guest on this episode is Fadhel Kaboub , an economist from Tunisia, professor at Denison University, Ohio (on leave), and currently working with Power Shift Africa to...

In this series, we're diving into how countries on the African continent are getting more involved in oil and gas projects. "Dismantling the Fossil Fuel Industry: Fossil Fuel Expansion in Africa," The main reason for this? The desire for economic growth. African leaders see fossil fuels as a key way to make their economies stronger. But this argument is very questionable and it comes w...

What is your role in the face of the climate crises?  As journalists from the global south meet with one in the global north it makes room for a controversial discussion on how reporting is done by those who face the brunt of the climate crisis in Southern Africa versus those in a high emissions country like Germany.  Southern African journalists' Teneal Koorts and Lemuel Chekai discuss the ro...

Climate change affects us all. On this episode,African journalists Tumelo from Botswana and Florence from Malawi tag team to get an insight on the work of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in their combat against climate change and their fight for climate justice. The expert on the matter is Katja Voigt. Head of Department for International Politics and North America also Advisor for Climate Policy at t...

What comes to your mind when you think of images? Arguably the most likely answer would be photographs taken on a smartphone. But what happens when art history, climate change and cartography come together? We speak to Professor Birgit Schneider from the University of Potsdam about the history and importance of maps in communicating climate change as well as climate change politics and denialism i...

Tafadzwa Ufumeli, a visual storyteller from Zimbabwe, and Lerato Mutsila, a journalist from South Africa sat down with Nina Treu, co-founder and coordinator of the Laboratory for New Economic Ideas in Leipzig, Germany to unpack the concept of Degrowth and uncover what place such a movement has in an increasingly globalised world. Can shrinking the economy save the planet or will it only benefit a...

Professor Markus Wissen, who co-authored a book with Ulrich Brand, titled, “The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism”, visits the CJC podcast studio to speak with Southern African journalists Onke Ngcuka and Alexandre Nhampossa. In the discussion, Professor Wissen explains to the audience that the lifestyles of the global north have had a significant impac...

Climate change impacts men and women differently because of differences in their traditional roles, societal expectations, and livelihoods. While this is the case, the vulnerability of women from the global south and women from the global north is also different due to different factors such as education levels, levels of income and access to credit and decision making.  In this episode, journalis...

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