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Global Yaadie
by Global Yaadie
The Global Yaadie podcast is captures colourful and powerful voices on climate change and sustainable development. We amplify the experiences Caribbean and international guests, connecting audiences across the globe.
Episodes
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Moving Forward: Advocacy and Ratification of the Escazú Agreement
In the final episode of Defending Our Rights: Environmental Justice in Jamaica, Nicole Leotaud, Elected Representative to the Public for the Escazú Agreement, reflects on what’s next for Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. The conversation unpacks why ratification of the treaty is critical, the gaps...
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Voice of Youth Environmental Defenders
What does it take to be a young advocate for the environment in Jamaica? Eleanor Terrelonge knows firsthand. In this episode, she shares her journey as a youth environmental defender, from navigating tokenism and limited access to information, to challenging the fear of speaking out. The...
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Voices of Environmental Defenders | The Fight for Beach Rights
Beaches in Jamaica aren’t just pretty spots, they are part of childhood memories, family outings and local culture. But what happens when those same beaches are suddenly fenced off? In this episode, Dr. Devon Taylor of the Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement(JABBEM) talks about why...
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Community Engagement and Public Participation in Environmental Justice
Environmental defenders face steep challenges, from limited access to information and justice to being excluded from decisions that affect their communities. Filmmaker and activist Dr. Esther Figueroa shares how storytelling can cut through these barriers, inspiring action and building awareness...
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Media’s Role in Amplifying Environmental Justice
In this episode of Defending Our Rights: Environmental Justice in Jamaica, award-winning journalist and attorney Dionne Jackson Miller explores how the media can help drive environmental awareness and accountability. From challenges in accessing information to the importance of investigative...
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The Threats Facing Environmental Defenders in Jamaica
Diana McCaulay, founder of the Jamaica Environment Trust, shares how she went from knowing little about environmental issues to leading one of Jamaica’s most recognized advocacy groups for over 30 years. Drawing on her decades of experience, she reflects on the risks faced by environmental...
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Introduction to the Escazú Agreement
Environment lawyer Danielle Andrade-Goffe takes us beyond the basics of the Escazú Agreement to explore the legal and cultural realities shaping environmental justice in Jamaica. From the gaps in meaningful public consultation to the limited legal safeguards for environmental defenders, Danielle...
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Escazú Matters for Jamaica
In this opening episode of Defending Our Rights: Environmental Justice in Jamaica, Dr. Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie, CEO of the Jamaica Environment Trust, talks about the Escazú Agreement and what it means for Jamaica. She breaks down why environmental defenders need stronger protection, how public...
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‘Defending Our Rights’ : A Podcast on Environmental Justice in Jamaica
This special podcast series explores what it means to stand up for the environment in Jamaica and why it should matter to us all. ‘Defending Our Rights’ breaks down the Escazú Agreement, a regional treaty designed to protect environmental defenders and ensure public access to environmental...
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Caribbean Women for Climate Justice: Sowing Seeds of Sustainable Solutions
The Caribbean Women for Climate Justice (CW4CJ) Virtual Conference is back for its third edition. The voices behind TheClimate Conscious and The Global Yaadie podcasts take the mic to share what’s in store. In this crossover episode, CW4CJ organizers, Dervaland Dainalyn break down the 2025 theme...
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Keatlegile Mnguni | Women Farming Change in the Global South - CW4CJ 2025 Spotlight
"Women are not only producers and caretakers - we are educators, innovators, and changemakers." Meet Keatlegile Mnguni, founder of AgriNouri in South Africa, who’s working on the ground to reduce post-harvest losses and empower women through agro-processing education. From unpredictable weather…
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Reducing the Mosquito Population in Jamaica
Dr. Gavin Campbell shares fascinating insights into his research on back swimmers, aquatic insects with the potential to help control mosquito populations in Jamaica. The conversation explores the delicate ecological balance between mosquitoes and their natural predators, the impact of climate...
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Exploring the High Seas : The Economic and Environmental Impacts
Marine scientist Dr. Dayne Buddo discusses the significance of the high seas and the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Treaty. This episode explores the environmental and economic implications of the high seasfor the Caribbean, the importance of biodiversity, the challenges posed…
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Voices Behind the Lens - Climate Stories from Jamaica
PART 2 Part Two of the "Envisioning Resilience in Jamaica" series, bringing you deeper into the immersive atmosphere of this dynamic photo exhibit. This episode captures heartfelt reflections from event coordinators, training participants, andattendees as they explore the photo exhibit, sharing...
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Climate Photo Stories from Young Women in Jamaica
PART 1 Global Yaadie Podcast dives into the "EnvisioningResilience in Jamaica" event—a vibrant showcase where photography, climate change, and community engagement intersect. This exhibit follows a six-month climate photography training program, where candid conversations in a live, pulsating...
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From Crisis to Clarity: Communicating in Natural Disasters
In this episode of the Global Yaadie podcast, Communication Consultant Khrystal Walcott sheds light on the vital role of clear and timely communication in preparing communities for the realities of climate change and natural disasters. She discusses how recent hurricanes in the Caribbean…
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Rebuilding Caribbean agriculture and communities after Hurricane Beryl
In this episode of the Global Yaadie Podcast, Jamaica's Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Mining, Honorable Floyd Green, provides an insightful look into the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl and its impact on the agriculture and fisheries sectors in Jamaica and the Caribbean. With an estimated...
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Reducing Risk: Natural Disaster Planning in the Caribbean
Managing environmental risks requires proactive strategies and a commitment to both individual and collective action. As part of a World Environment Week reflection and the start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season, host Dainalyn Swaby discusses environmental risk management with Eleanor Jones, CEO…
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Eco Echoes: Changes in Jamaica's Wildlife
Terrestrial Biologist and Wildlife Expert, Damion 'Rooster' Whyte, explains the impact of climate change Jamaica's wildlife. Damion's social media has grown into a huge citizen science platform and its changing local attitude towards animals and nature. The episode explores the effects of climate...
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Healthy Environment-Friendly Youth
In this episode Naomi Cambridge, Community Engagement Coordinator for the Ashley Lashley Foundation, shares their impactful work to build a movement of Healthy Environment-Friendly Youth – HEY, the flagship campaign active in over 50 countries worldwide and other engagement & empowerment...
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Reimagining Sustainability - Art of Systems Change with Khandiz Joni
Creative Sustainableist and Systems Navigator, Khandiz Joni delves into the intersection of sustainability and creativity. She introduces her innovative Regenasyst methodology, which reframes sustainability through a lens of creativity and imagination. Khandiz shares her career journey, blending...
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Seaweed Farming in Jamaica
CEO and Co-Founder of Kee Farms, Nicholas Kee discusses his transition from running a tech non-profit to diving into seaweed farming in Jamaica. From sea moss to sargassum, explore the diverse uses of seaweed in food, beverages, biotech and its larger role in the Caribbean blue economy. Nicholas...
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Truth Be Told about Caribbean Climate Justice
In this 3-peat pod to pod, Derval Barzey, founder of The Climate Conscious Podcast, joins Global Yaadie to discuss her journey and pivotal work in sustainability. They explore the evolution of The Climate Conscious Podcast and the advocacy campaigns launched through the platform. Derval delves…
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Elevating Environment Action with Esirom Foundation
In Global Yaadie's first in-person recording, we sit down with Esirom Foundation's Sustainability Coordinator, Khalia Hall inside Esirom Studios, Jamaica. We explore how Esirom is redefining sustainability efforts making environment action sexy, do-able and impactful for all Jamaicans. Khalia...
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Gender Justice as a pathway for Climate Justice Pt. 2
In the second part of our conversation with Ayesha Constable, co-founder GirlsCARE, Young People for Climate Action and our partner in this climate justice series, we continue to explore the powerful link between gender justice and climate justice in the Caribbean. In this thought provoking...
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Gender Justice as a pathway for Climate Justice Pt. 1
In our season finale we end with the one who started it. Ayesha Constable, founder of GirlsCARE, Young People for Climate Action and our partner in this climate justice series tackles issues of gender justice. In this hard hitting two-part series, we peel back the layers and intersectionalities...
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Beyond Accessibility - Climate Justice and Disability
For Disability Advocates Ginnel Peart and Richelle Henry, physical disabilities pose no barriers in being bold for their community. This episode spotlights conversations with the two fearless females championing the differently abled community, especially those with physical challenges. The...
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Climate Justice for the Differently Abled: Seeing the vision for the visually impaired
Being blind doesn’t mean you should be left behind, in conversations on climate justice and certainly not in cases of natural disasters. In this stirring interview, Radio station Manager, Patrick Layafette and Executive Director for Jamaica Society for the Blind, Conrad Harris challenge how we…
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Climate Justice and Indigenous Communities in the Caribbean - Part Two | The Garifuna in Belize
Part two of this episode explores the lived experience of the Garifuna in Belize. President of the National Garifuna Council Sheena Zuniga, captures the impact of climate change and culture loss on Garifuna communities. In addition to supporting climate adaptation projects, the NGC plays an...
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Caribbean Women for Climate Justice
After a successful inaugural staging in 2022, the Caribbean Women for Climate Justice conference is back! Conference leads, The Climate Conscious Podcast and The Breadfruit Collective team, join forces with Global Yaadie podcast for a second pod-to-pod episode. In a healthy dose of Caribbean girl...
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Climate Justice and Indigenous Communities in the Caribbean - The Kaliña in Suriname
Indigenous peoples are the world’s first eco-warriors, through their way of life, they are protectors and preservers of our natural environment. In the Caribbean, indigenous groups are fighting for land rights, the protection of natural resources, the continuity of their culture and resilience to...
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The Climate Fight for Human Rights
Malene Alleyene, Human Rights Lawyer and Founder of Freedom Imaginaries, enlightens us about human rights law as a tool for transformation. Through a social imaginary lens, she advocates that the protection and preservation of communities are connected to opportunities for marginalized people to...
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Forging the Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance
Dr. Ainka Granderson from the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) introduces the Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance (CCJA) which aims to transform policy and practice for climate action. This episode makes us appreciate that: 1) Governments are important but the groundwork even more…
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Can the Caribbean Just Transition?
“We are all facing the same seas but we aren’t in the same boat”. Climate justice concerns face us all but look differently beyond the surface. In this episode, climate change expert Steve Maximay breaks down the concept of climate justice and more importantly, stimulates a deep and different way...
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Queery-ing Climate Justice
LGBTQ+ and climate change is no side panel conversation. If we are exploring historically marginalized groups, this community among others needs to be front and centre. Traditionally, Caribbean-based mobilizations for LGBTQ+ support are limited in scope for climate action – that is an imbalance…
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Global Yaadie - The Climate Justice Series (Trailer)
Young People for Climate Action Jamaica - YPACC in collaboration with the Global Yaadie podcast and funded by Open Society Foundations is happy to announce our #climatejustice podcast series where regional voices address the meaning of climate justice in the Caribbean context and give...
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Episode 9 – Forecasting Disasters
As Tropical Storm Elsa rages across the Caribbean we revisit a conversation with climate change and disaster risk expert Kelli Armstrong. Start with the global pandemic, throw in a volcanic eruption and then add the Atlantic hurricane season – It’s near impossible to depart from the Caribbean’s...
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Episode 8 – Injecting Vaccine Truth
It’s our second pod to pod who knew it would be this fun when 2 Nerds Start a Podcast? Science podcasters and Molecular Biology PhD students, Eleanor Terrelonge and Derrick Horsham inject us with the truth about vaccines. Science class is in full session as we understand the process behind the...
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Episode 7 - Youth Speak Their Climate Truth
We are travelling back in time to December 2019 in Madrid, Spain. It was COP 25 Climate Change Conference and Global Yaadie’s first recording debut. The whole world knows Greta Thunberg. However, let’s introduce you to youth from the Americas who are changemakers in their own countries. Following…
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Episode 6 – Tackling Climate Change on Campus
How are universities coping through covid? Encouraging people to focus on climate and sustainability in the midst of a pandemic is a task and a half. Sustainability Manager at the University of London, Matt Wilkinson has a full plate even with an empty campus. He shares how his team keeps the...
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Episode 5 – Water difference he makes!
He was cruising through his chemical engineering career until some serious water worries dried up his interest. Be the change you want to see defines Ajani Jacobs’ experience. He swapped engineering titles for the sake for his country’s water woes. The land of wood and water like many other…
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Episode 4 – Hard Facts and Hard Wax
International Women’s Day calls for the acknowledgment of the glitz as well as the glum of being a woman. Here’s an adventurous conversation with one unapologetic attorney/ wax aesthetician who came into an early awareness of the power of being female. Tatiana Answer champions women’s rights and...
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Episode 3 - The Verdict on Climate Justice
Climate change impacts are felt all across the world but it’s not just an environment challenge. It’s no secret that the global threat isn’t always black and white. How does climate change become an issue of racial and social justice? Environment activist Simmone Ahiaku helps us to see through…
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Episode 2 : Two Girls 'a loan in China' - Part II
Back in China after vacationing in Bali, the reality deepens. Our guests continue their story of going through the motions under five months of quarantine and staying calm amidst the chaos. Fending off discrimination and managing their mental health. We all can attest life is not what we signed…
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Episode 2: Two girls 'a loan' in China
How far would you go to be financially free? Learning comes with a price and these girls are paying it forward with the same route they took to their destination – education. The determination to be debt free led Cristine and Orsha from the sunny isle of Jamaica to the most populous place on the...
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Global Yaadie Gets 'Climate Conscious'
In this Season Two Premiere and first ever pod to pod episode, island girls with identical passions reflect on their role in the climate change space. Podcast hosts from separate platforms Dainalyn and Derval, exchange experiences and offload the challenges in promoting climate action and...
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Season Two : Episode 1 Global Yaadie Gets Climate Conscious (Trailer)
We have a guest podcaster in the house! Environment Management Professional and host of the Climate Conscious Podcast, Derval Barzey joins Global Yaadie to speak on sustainability from a Caribbean perspective
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Episode 8 – Beauty with a purpose: Miss New York Earth 2020
We bedazzled our guest seat into a throne fitting for the reigning Miss New York Earth as she shared her experience competing in a pageant celebrating our environment. How do you compete without knowing your competitors? We learn what it is like navigating the covid-19 reality to compete…
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Episode 7– From 1 to 100,000: The Nigerian vision for global climate action
Being the change, you want to see epitomizes this episode and even moreso, our guest, Daniel Gbujie Chidumem. Like a full plate of steaming jollof rice, the Nigerian dishes in full detail his experiences as a family man, a young medical doctor, climate youth leader and now tech expert as he uses...
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Episode 6 – Culture, identity and the Jamaican legacy: Global Jamaica Diaspora Youth Council
It was three the hard way in the guest seat for this episode! Young, vibrant and passionate Jamaican women – Tijienene Gordon, Kashane Denton and Elecia Bethune located in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom share their experiences of embracing identity, promoting culture and…
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