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Just Us and the Climate - Climate Justice Coalition

Just Us and the Climate - Climate Justice Coalition

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Welcome to Just Us and the Climate – a podcast by South Africa’s Climate Justice Coalition

Join us as we bring climate change back down to earth and show how it’s not only a crisis, but an opportunity to build a better, more just world.

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  • #017 How climate change impacts our health

    #017 How climate change impacts our health
    Feb 16 2023
    Defining climate change as a health issue.

    Health, as we understand it, should be considered central to climate change. Climate change will have profound impacts on people and public health.

    In this episode, we speak to guests who work at the intersection between coal, climate, energy, and health. We reflect on the outcomes of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, specifically about discussions relating to the health sector and climate change. Our guests weigh in on whether or not we are making meaningful progress towards defining climate change as a health issue.

    We've long advocated that the health sector should be vested in climate change and all the associated ways of tackling climate change. Listen to this episode to understand why.
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    29 mins
  • #016 Climate friendly budgeting: where do we start?

    #016 Climate friendly budgeting: where do we start?
    Sep 7 2022
    Can the national budget advance adaptation efforts and climate justice?

    The need to mitigate and adapt to the realities of the climate crisis in these and other sectors has become increasingly apparent. This episode will focus on the adaptation pillar of climate action. Climate change adaptation means anticipating the adverse effects of climate change and taking appropriate action to prevent or minimise the damage it can cause.

    Government will have to develop and strengthen national and sectoral climate adaptation policies and ensure they are implemented. This will require significant resources and climate finance is thus a critical issue for successful adaptation efforts. This includes the need for a just transition away from investments in fossil fuels and other climate-damaging expenditures toward climate adaptation policies.

    This episode will offer a robust and nuanced conversation, as it seeks to interrogate the role of the national budget in advancing climate justice and adaptation efforts - looking specifically at frontline sectors, such as health and education. Section 27 website · Adaptation Network · 350 Africa
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    47 mins
  • #015 The Climate Change Bill: A breakthrough for climate justice?

    #015 The Climate Change Bill: A breakthrough for climate justice?
    Aug 3 2022
    An analysis of the Climate Change Bill for activists.

    The tabling of the Climate Change Bill before parliament represents an important moment in tackling climate change, the most severe crisis facing the future of humanity and the planet. As impacts of the climate crisis are especially keenly felt by the Black working class, and marginalised groups (women, youth and persons living with disabilities etc), it is vital that the legal framework is developed in a manner that facilitates the broadest involvement and which contains mechanisms to ensure that prevention and adaptation measures advance gender, class and racial justice.

    This podcast is designed to be part of broader education and capacitation drives to ensure as broad-based participation in the public hearings for the Bill as possible and to promote a public dialogue on what should be included in climate legislation.

    To help us understand the Bill, its strengths, weaknesses and what changes we should be pushing for, we have four guests representing different perspectives and sectors in the climate justice movement.
    To provide a legal synopsis of the Bill we have Brandon Abdinor, the Climate Advocacy Lawyer at the Centre for Environmental Rights.
    To provide the perspective of women in working-class communities we have Francina Nkosi from Waterberg Women Advocacy Organisation (WWAO).
    To provide a labour perspective we have Matthew Grant, the Research and Policy Co-ordinator at the South African Federation of Trade Union (SAFTU).
    And to provide a youth perspective we have Gabriel Klaasens representing the African Climate Alliance.
    The discussion is moderated by Robert Krause, a researcher at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies.
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    1 hr
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