Vicious wildfires in parts of Greece, the United States, and Canada. Deadly floods devasting Germany, India and Nigeria. Violent tropical storms in the Philippines and the Caribbean Islands. Climate impact undoubtedly rocked the world in 2021, no less during a deadly pandemic.
In the fourth episode of Global ISSues, the podcast by the International Institute of Social Studies, co-hosts Surabhi Srivastava and Natalia Abrill Bonilla explore how climate change influenced the ISS community in 2021 and their resolutions to diminish their climate impact in 2022.
Episode background
The momentum of last year's extreme weather incidents set the tone at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, referred to as COP 26, that took place in October 2021. The conference proposed ideas to unite governments, businesses and civil society actors to prevent the irreversible. In sum, urgent action and solidarity was, and is still, needed to lessen climate change’s affects.
In this episode, get to know more about the ISS Environment Committee, in addition to faculty group KISS (Klimaat at ISS), (represented by Associate Professor Oane Visser) who are working on putting climate impact on the agenda within our institute.
ISS students and faculty offer their reflections on how climate change influenced their communities at home, citing disasters and COP 26, and what they intend to do differently in 2022. They also share their resolutions for addressing climate change in 2022.
About the podcast
Global ISSues is the first official podcast of ISS and a platform for sharing our collective stories and first-hand experiences related to international development and social change. This medium amplifies voices that are a part of ISS to explore the changing global landscape in current affairs and shifting paradigms through insightful and eye-opening conversations.
Episodes are dropped periodically on the Global ISSues Soundcloud page.
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