It's Possible
It’s Possible is a UN Climate Change´s podcast that inspires positive change, unpacks the climate emergency, and connects science and action. In each episode, our host Sarah Marchildon will sit down to speak to climate leaders. We believe that meaningful and honest conversations can help us build a climate-positive future.
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It's Possible Podcast: Episode 5 | The Future of Food
03/17/2023
It's Possible Podcast: Episode 5 | The Future of Food
What’s for dinner? On a planet wracked by rising seas, disappearing biodiversity, and hotter temperatures, that’s a tough question to answer. The way we produce, eat and waste food is one of the largest drivers of climate change globally, with food production responsible for a whopping one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s also the primary driver of biodiversity loss, with agriculture alone threatening 86% of species at risk of extinction. At the same time, rising temperatures, heatwaves, droughts and floods, changes in rainfall patterns and other extreme events affect agriculture more than any other sector. Scientists have found that limiting climate change will be impossible without big changes to how the world eats. But this does not have to be a downward spiral. We can reverse the negative relationship between food systems and climate change and turn it into a positive one. That’s why the future of food is on the menu in this episode of our podcast. We sat down with three experts to get a taste of what transforming the food system looks like: Peter McGuinness, CEO, Esnath Divasoni, Agriculture Trainer, Earlene Cruz, Founder and Executive Director of
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It’s Possible Podcast: Unpacking the Climate Emergency
11/03/2022
It’s Possible Podcast: Unpacking the Climate Emergency
With the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 set to begin in just a few days, this episode of our podcast sets out to answer three key questions about the climate emergency: how did we get here, what does it mean and what can we do to change course? The first half of the podcast explores the latest science and explains why the world is in a climate emergency. The second half of the podcast focuses on what needs to happen to avert this crisis and limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. We sat down with two of the world’s leading experts on climate science and policy: , Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research , Dean, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
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It's Possible Podcast: Episode 3
06/20/2022
It's Possible Podcast: Episode 3
Thirty years ago last month, the text of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted. This was a significant milestone because it solidified a collective commitment from countries around the world to tackle climate change, together. It was a recognition that climate change was a global problem that required a global solution. In this episode of our It’s Possible podcast, we reflect on the past, present and future of global efforts to address climate change. We sat down with three guests: , Founding Executive Director of Force of Nature , Former Deputy Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change , Current Deputy Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change Together, we look back at 30 years of intergovernmental negotiations on climate change. The conversation is wide-ranging and touches on various topics ranging from what the public understanding of – and concern about – climate change was like in 1992 to the dramatic rise of young people calling for climate action today. The conversation also centres around where we stand in global efforts to tackle climate change and what needs to happen next to ensure we can limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Listen to the episode below or on your favourite podcast platform. Help us share these stories of climate action on social media using the hashtag #ItsPossible.
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It’s Possible: Episode 2 With Patricia Espinosa
02/25/2022
It’s Possible: Episode 2 With Patricia Espinosa
Patricia Espinosa is the Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, with perhaps one of the toughest jobs in the world. She is responsible for steering 197 countries toward tackling the greatest challenge facing humanity. No small task. In this episode, we sat down with Ms. Espinosa to look back at what the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) accomplished and look ahead at the key climate change priorities in 2022. She speaks about her career journey from ambassador of her home country of Mexico to the head of UN Climate Change, and why multilateralism is so important to her. She explains where we stand in global efforts to tackle climate change and what needs to happen next to ensure we can limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Also in this episode, we spoke to one of the musicians behind Antropoceno, as part of our #Art4Climate campaign. Christoph Müller and Eduardo Makaroff from Gotan Project are fighting climate change with the strongest weapon they have: their music. We called Christoph to learn more.
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Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison
11/06/2021
Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison
We talk to American astronaut Dr Mae Jemison, the first woman of colour to travel to space.
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