Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 10: The problem with tree planting and insure our future

This time, Clare and Charlie discuss the problem with tree planting as a climate solution and why we should be targetting insurance companies and their role in the fossil economy.

Albedo effect: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg6196
Climate choir: https://twitter.com/climatechoirs/status/1765856822932472179

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EPISODE 9: Finance + Physics = Climate Repair? Ft. Delton Chen

In this episode Clare and Delton Chen explore Delton's work on a concept of a global carbon reward, an economic concept which could provide a carrot and not just a stick in the field of international economic interventions. As with all these conversations with experts on solutions, Extinction Rebellion isn’t advocating for this above and beyond any other approaches. Hopefully looking at different options with the experts who propose them can help us to get a rounded view on what’s being proposed and what might be possible. We hope it sparks interesting thinking and reflections.

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Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. Their aim, to make sure that the latest science news and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in an easy to understand way.

EPISODE 8: £500,000 damage and not guilty! The HSBC 9 trial | XR UK

This time, Charlie talks to Clare about the action she was involved with which broke the windows of Europe’s second largest investor in fossil fuels, HSBC and her subsequent not guilty verdict.
This episode was recorded in Dec 2023.

Find out more about the vital work of Defend our Juries:
https://defendourjuries.org/
https://twitter.com/DefendourJuries

Press release: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2023/11/16/jury-finds-women-who-broke-hsbc-windows-not-guilty/

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Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 7: COP28: What happened!?

This time, Clare and Charlie break down what happened at this year's COP28 in Dubai and where it leaves us now.

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Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 6: Everything you need to know about the COP process ft. Paddy Loughman

In this episode Clare chats to climate communications strategist Paddy Loughman about the COP process and the time he spent as working with the High-Level Champions at COP 26 in Glasgow. They explore how the COP process functions and what it is and isn’t capable of achieving.

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Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 5: The carbon death footprint and conservative science

This time, Clare and Charlie discuss the recently released academic paper by Richard Parncutt and others, helping to frame carbon emissions as deadly by giving an estimated methodology for deaths caused per tonne of carbon emitted. Then, having listened to a recent interview between Rockstrom and Anderson, they dig into the details of scientific reticence, flaws in climate projections and processes, and what that means for global justice and how it encourages inaction.

3 founders of xr, Clare, Gail and Roger, issued this statement reflecting on the immediate moment we find ourselves in regarding the climate science, and in particular reflecting on the work of Leon Simons and James Hansen.
https://rebellion.global/blog/2023/10/19/reflections-5-years-on/

NB This video was recorded back in September but couldn't be realeased until now due to Clare's trial. Look out for the forthcoming episode diving into that!

Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 4: The shadowy companies holding back progress on climate

This episode Clare and Charlie dig deeper into the Atlas global network of think tanks, grateful for the journalism of Amy Westervelt and Geoff Dembicki for the long read in New Republic that helped sketch out the true reach and influence. The are not only shaping the discourse on the climate crisis, its causes and policy responses but increasingly influencing public conversation about activists, and even having a hand in legislating them out of their rights to protest. Relatedly, the leader of the UAE based COP this year (yes, the oil boss guy), has been working in partnership with mega PR and comms firm Edelman for well over a decade to greenwash his personal image and that of his country.

References:

Atlas group think tanks
https://newrepublic.com/article/175488/meet-shadowy-global-network-vilifying-climate-protesters?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR

EDELMAN supporting UAE PR
https://www.desmog.com/2023/09/13/edelman-pr-enabled-adnoc-al-jaber-to-lead-cop28-climate-conference/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/27/big-oil-public-relations-defectors-climate-crisis

NGOs and Policy Exchange
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/08/rspb-ministers-wildlife-charity-power-britain

Dutch actor on sedition charges
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/19/highway-to-hell-dutch-climate-activist-fights-sedition-charge

32 european countries taken to court by young people
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/23/uk-one-of-32-countries-facing-european-court-human-rights-action-over-climate-stance?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 3: Rishi backtracks, California vs. big oil, and the Dutch rebel!

Clare and Charlie discuss ultra-rich Rishi’s green about turn, the reaction from his own party and business and the culture war effect on politics in the UK. Comparing that with the governor of california who is bringing charges against fossil fuel companies for what he describes as over 70 years of deceit. If you need cheering up just look across to those Dutch rebels who have been blockading the interstate A12 road with thousands of peaceful people week in and week out. There have been some surprising reactions from the police (also in the mix with water cannons and pain grip techniques). Please follow Charlie on his walk: https://www.walkinginwater.com

@Walkinginwater1 On Instagram and X

References: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/09/20/tory-mps-net-zero-backtrack-rishi-sunak-greatest-mistake/

Even the investment and pensions sector is not impressed - https://www.ipe.com/news/investors-call-on-rishi-sunak-to-not-backtrack-on-climate-change/10069211.article

Gov of california https://x.com/climatescibreak/status/1703662937947115655?s=46&t=qZu5HRsiMlhXtArIiI8HhQ

Dutch Rebels https://x.com/vanderaanet/status/1702995732456714680?s=20

Letter to gov from Dutch police https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR0fbkUMEaeQfA_prVt_0XyOrLn9vKGtHRBNSd0Mx9N_JZ6mauSgwOChHtO9LIIdnNSfSo5i51J7pfn/pub?link_id=0&can_id=4f3ef80caa9b5788f643913f9f315110&source=email-netherlands-a12&email_referrer=email_2041934&email_subject=the-police-are-cracking

Later this started happening - police using pain grips on innocent young people - https://x.com/DoctorAnanas/status/1708521711786762623?s=20

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/23/uk-one-of-32-countries-facing-european-court-human-rights-action-over-climate-stance?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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