Dirk Nemitz, Team Lead Agriculture, Forestry and Land-Use at the UNFCCC, Margaret Young, Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor at the Melbourne Law School and Brendan Wintle, Professor in Conservation Ecology and Director, Melbourne Biodiversity Institute at the University of Melbourne, join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the fifth episode of Season 5 of Climate Talks to talk about the role of forests, oceans and biodiversity in the COPs. The clip at the...
Jul 08, 2025•32 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Graeme Reed, Post-Doctoral Associate at the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages at York University, Alexei Trundle, Associate Director (International) at the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne and Belle Workman, Research Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures at the University of Melbourne, join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the fourth episode of Season 5 of Climate Talks to talk about the connecting COPs to communities. The clip at the begi...
Jun 03, 2025•30 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and Founder and Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School, and Neil Carter, Professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York join hosts Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the third episode of Season 5 of Climate Talks to talk about politics and climate ...
Apr 30, 2025•34 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Andrea Vecchi, Research Fellow in Clean Energy at the University of Melbourne, John Wiseman, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures and Adjunct Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne, and Fergus Green, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy, University College London join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the second episode of Season 5 of Climate Talks to talk about...
Apr 09, 2025•33 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Janine Felson, Enterprise Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, Arthur Wyns, Research Fellow at Melbourne Climate Futures at the University of Melbourne and Asif Saleh, Executive Director of BRAC in Bangladesh join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the first episode of Season 5 of Climate Talks to talk about expectations for COP30. The clip at the beginning of th...
Mar 13, 2025•39 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Kate Coleman, Associate Professor in Visual Arts and Design Education at the Faculty of Education, and Arthur Wyns, Research Fellow at Melbourne Climate Futures at the University of Melbourne join hosts Jackie Peel and Bek Markey-Towler, in the final episode of Season 4 of Climate Talks to talk about the outcomes from COP29. The clip at the beginning of the episode is from COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev and Chandni Raina, Indian delegation representative speaking at the end of COP29. You can he...
Dec 19, 2024•30 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Janine Felson, Enterprise Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, Don Henry, Professor, University of Melbourne and at the Climate Reality Project, and Kris Ebi, Professor in the University of Washington Center for Health and the Global Environment join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the eight episode of Season 4 of Climate Talks to talk about expectations for C...
Nov 12, 2024•35 min•Season 4Ep. 8
In this final episode of City Climate Innovation , special episodes of the ClimateTalks Podcast produced by GCoM, Melbourne Centre for Cities and Melbourne Climate Futures, we bring a “fire side chat” with the co-chairs of the Innovate4Cities 2024 Conference - Ben Jance, Head of Research and Innovation at GCoM; and Lea Ranalder Associate Programme Management Officer at UN Habitat; and two other key members of the event organising team and lead authors of the Outcomes Report. We have the mastermi...
Nov 05, 2024•33 min
Linh Do, lead of the Wattle Fellowship, University of Melbourne and chair of Climate Action Network Australia, Gregor Robertson Special Envoy for Cities in CHAMP and Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy Global Ambassador, Longest Serving Mayor of Vancouver, and Steve Davison, Deputy Director, Cambridge Zero at the University of Cambridge and international lead, UK Universities Climate Network, join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the seventh episode of Season 4...
Oct 10, 2024•29 min•Season 4Ep. 7
In this fourth episode we kick things off with the Executive Director of the International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure, Ms. Savina Carluccio and Ms. Joanna Masic, Lead Urban Specialist and Global Lead, Urban, Disaster Risk Management and Land Global Practice at the World Bank. We also have Mr. Georges Youssef, Mayor of Menjez, Lebanon discussing the finance of urban sustainability at the local government level. These guests join hosts Ben Jance, and Cathy Oke in the latest episode o...
Sep 11, 2024•32 min
In this third episode we’d like to turn our focus to the role of nature in building resilient cities in consideration of the nature in which they are embedded. We welcome today Engineer Rigoberto Guerrero of the Municipality of Cuenca, Ecuador, alongside expert perspectives from Distinguished Professor Xuemei Bai of the Australian National University Fenner School of Environment and Society and Chief Heat Officer Eleni Myrivili of UN-Habitat. They’ll join hosts Ben Jance and Cathy Oke in our thi...
Sep 10, 2024•35 min
We return in our second episode with an examination of a research & innovation trend touching not only local level governance but all aspects of how we process information and make decisions; digitalisation. We are pleased to announce we’re joined by Martin Wainstein, Executive Director of the Open Earth Foundation, and Pooja Mahapatra, Global Lead of the Climate & Nature program at Fugro. Today’s guests join hosts Ben Jance and Cathy Oke in episode two of City Climate Innovation , speci...
Sep 10, 2024•30 min
In this first episode we kick things off with the Special Envoy for Cities in CHAMP (the Coalition For High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships), Global Ambassador for the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, and former three-term mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Gregor Robertson. We also have Professor Nicola Tollin, Chairholder and Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Urban Resilience at the University of Southern Denmark - perhaps more recently known for spearheading the research...
Sep 10, 2024•27 min
Wes Morgan, Research Associate at UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response, Fellow at the Climate Council, and Research Fellow Griffith Asia Institute, Professor Tom Daly, Director, Democratic Decay and Renewal at the University of Melbourne and Erwin Jackson, Managing Director, Policy, at the Investor Group on Climate Change join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the sixth episode of Season 4 of Climate Talks to talk about the impact of politics and elections on COP29. ...
Sep 04, 2024•28 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Max Van Deursen, PhD researcher international climate policy, Wageningen University & Research, Emilie Beauchamp, Lead, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Adaptation to Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development and Joana Setzer, Associate Professor, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the fifth episode of Season 4 o...
Aug 08, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Janine Coye-Felson, senior level diplomat of the Government of Belize and Enterprise Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, Dr Arj Dibley, Head of the Sustainable Finance Hub, Melbourne Climate Futures and Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School, and Dr Pia Treichel, senior researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development join hosts Jackie Peel and Bek Markey-Towler, in the fourth episode of Season 4 of Climate Talks to talk about climate finance. The clip at the beginning of the ep...
Jul 10, 2024•27 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Produced by Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne Centre for Cities Show notes for Ep 3: Professor Kathryn Bowen, Deputy Director, Melbourne Climate Futures and Professor Environment, Climate and Global Health in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne, Dr Vili Lese, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director, Drought, Resilience and Climate in the School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and Janet Hallows...
Jun 09, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Professor Mark Howden, Director of the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions and Vice Chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Dr Linden Ashcroft, lecturer, climate scientist and science communicator in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne, join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the second episode of Season 4 of Climate Talks to talk about bringing climate science back ...
May 13, 2024•24 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Stephen Minas, Professor at the School of Transnational Law, Peking University, and Senior Research Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London and Janine Felson, Enterprise Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures at the University of Melbourne, join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the first episode of Season 4 of Climate Talks to talk about bridging the gap between COP28 and the road ahead to COP29 and COP30. The clip at the beginning of the episode is from...
Apr 12, 2024•28 min•Season 4Ep. 1
In this episode we speak with Abigail Binay, Mayor of Makati, Philippines. Since 1975, the City of Makati has been part of the National Capital Region comprising the greater Manila area, incorporated as the seventh city in Metro Manila in 1995. With a population of over 629,000 within an area of 21.57 square kilometres, Makati is one of the most densely inhabited urban environments on the planet, which gives rise to a range of governance considerations. Seeing an average temperature during summe...
Mar 13, 2024•32 min
Australia's second-oldest capital is jumping into the future climate-first with its new Climate Futures Strategy, which involves modelling potential climate impacts across Tasmania with the support of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre. Fostering the development of Local Government Area Climate Profiles, a range of climate variables were factored into the decision-making process to examine potential challenges Hobart and the rest of Tasmania may face in the decades ...
Feb 08, 2024•31 min
In this episode, we speak with the mayor of the municipality of Kloto I in Togo, Monsieur Winny Yawo Dogbatsè. Mayor Dogbatse also serves as GCoM Board Member and the Chair of the Regional Mayors Forum of the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA). He is joined by Monsieur Koffi Alowonou, Director of Community Technical Services for Kloto I. They have taken time to outline some of the details involved in rolling out the Sustainable Energy Access and Climate Action Plan (SEACAP) acros...
Jan 24, 2024•31 min
Join hosts Jackie Peel, Cathy Oke and Bek Markey-Towler in the tenth and final episode of Season 3 of Climate Talks to discuss their reflections on COP28. We will back for another series in 2024 to follow the journey to COP29. You can hear the clip of UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell from the start of the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?lv=366vDJk14_s Other recordings played include Antonio Gueterras UN Secretary General and Vanessa Nakate Ugandan climate justice activist. You...
Dec 22, 2023•26 min
In this special episode we speak with Carolina Basualdo, Mayor of Despeñaderos, Argentina. We also have Jorge Rodríguez, Coordinator, Permanent Technical Secretariat, Mercociudades, and Valentina De Marco, Coordinadora, Alianzas y Proyectos Internacionales, RAMCC. These guests join hosts Ben Jance and Cathy Oke in the fifth episode of City Climate Innovation , special episodes of the ClimateTalks Podcast produced by GCoM, a series of special episodes of the ClimateTalks Podcast series, to discus...
Dec 04, 2023•57 min
Dr Janine Felson, senior level diplomat of the Government of Belize and Enterprise Fellow of Melbourne Climate Futures and Professor Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in Political Science at the University of Melbourne and Professor Kathryn Bowen Deputy Director of Melbourne Climate Futures, join hosts Jackie Peel, Bek Markey-Towler and Cathy Oke, in the ninth episode of Season 3 of Climate Talks to talk about their best predictions for COP28. The clip at the beginning of th...
Nov 19, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Professor Kathryn Bowen, Deputy Director, Melbourne Climate Futures and Professor, Climate, Environment and Global Health at the University of Melbourne and Professor Don Henry, Director, Climate Reality Project, Asia-Pacific Branch, join hosts Bek Markey-Towler, Associate Professor Cathy Oke, Deputy Director of Melbourne Centre for Cities, and Professor Jackie Peel, Director, Melbourne Climate Futures and Professor, Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne in the seven episode of Sea...
Oct 18, 2023•27 min•Season 3Ep. 7
In this episode we speak with Cam Guthrie, Mayor of Guelph, Canada. We also have David Messer, Executive Director Smart Cities Office, City of Guelph and Carole Saab, Chief Executive Officer, Federation of Canadian Municipalities. These guests join hosts Ben Jance and Cathy Oke in the first episode of the second season of the City Climate Innovation special series. Situated in Southern Ontario between Lake Erie, Lake Huron, and Lake Ontario, Guelph contains over half the population of Wellington...
Oct 08, 2023•35 min
Dr Arj Dibley, Head of the Sustainable Finance Hub, Melbourne Climate Futures and Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School, Purdie Bowden, Program Lead – Policy and Sustainable Finance Solutions at the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute, and Erwin Jackson, Director, Policy at the Investor Group on Climate Change join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke in the fifth episode of Season 3 of Climate Talks to talk about the role of finance in climate action. The clip at the beginning of the episode is...
Sep 13, 2023•27 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Elly Harrould-Kolieb and Yvette Kerslake, join hosts Jackie Peel and Cathy Oke in the fifth episode of Season 3 of Climate Talks to talk about oceans and climate governance. The clip at the beginning of the episode is from UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell speaking at the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue held during the Bonn Climate Conference in June 2023. You can hear the clip in full here: https://unfccc-events.azureedge.net/SB58_91950/agenda Read an article by Elly Harrould-Kolieb on ...
Aug 13, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Anthony Stark, Manager at Melbourne Climate Futures, Daniel Sherrell, Senior Advisor on Climate and Energy at the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Daniel Miller, CEO of the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation join hosts Jackie Peel and Bek Markey-Towler in the fourth episode of Season 3 of Climate Talks to talk about the need for equity and a just transition in the face of a changing climate. The clip at the beginning of the episode is from youth activists at the Climate St...
Jul 12, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 4
