Climate News: Vanessa Nakate - climate justice advocate; Asia's record-setting heat wave; 'Catastrophic' Congo flooding; New climate zones by 2100; Alleged green fraud at Chinese resort episode artwork

EPISODE · May 10, 2023 · 15 MIN

Climate News: Vanessa Nakate - climate justice advocate; Asia's record-setting heat wave; 'Catastrophic' Congo flooding; New climate zones by 2100; Alleged green fraud at Chinese resort

from Climate Conversations · host Robert McLean

The Ugandian climate justice advocate, Vanessa Nakate (pictured) responds to winning an award on this Time magazine story: "There Needs to Be a Climate Tax for Frequent Fliers"; "Where We'll End Up Living as the Planet Burns"; "Why Extreme Heat Is So Bad for the Human Body"; "How to Build Up Your Heat Tolerance to Prepare for a Hotter World"; "Asia’s Record-Setting Heat Wave Demonstrates Dangers of Warming World"; "Extreme heat, well into triple digits, smashes records in Asia"; "Italian firm pushes ‘carbon bomb’ gas export project in the Territory"; "‘Catastrophic’ Congo Flooding Kills More Than 400 People"; "Congo flood survivors mourn lost relatives as death toll rises above 400"; "How Alone Australia can help us understand and appreciate our place in nature"; "‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage - but it’s not going to fix our food system"; "HECS for farmers? Nature repair loans could help biodiversity recover – and boost farm productivity"; "Coal-to-hydrogen project could create new operation"; "Big batteries charge on to centre stage with new tricks for the grid"; "Labor creates $2bn renewable hydrogen fund as part of $4bn green energy package"; "Households offered $1bn help in budget to install energy saving measures"; "Tax shake-up for gas producers, $4 billion for Australia to 'power the world'"; "West Australian government reveals massive scale of going green — but who’s going to pay is yet to be worked out"; "Almost Half The Planet Predicted to Enter New Climate Zones by 2100"; "Met Office issues Scotland heatwave update as hot temperatures forecast across UK"; "Scottish energy could power Canary Wharf Group green power deal"; "Chinese Resort Island at Center of Alleged Green Fuel Fraud".

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