Attributions
Attributions is a podcast from Climate Impacts Tracker Asia. Join us on journeying through some of the most pressing climate-related issues seen through the eyes of experts in the fields and their commentary on the challenges that the globe faces as it attempts to tackle climate change.
Episodes
16 episodes
COP29 Unpacked: Did We Move the Needle on Climate Action?
In this episode, we take you through the key highlights of COP29. From climate finance debates to the inclusion of indigenous voices and the urgent need for sustainable tourism and agriculture practices, we examine the outcomes and what they...
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Episode 16
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4:02
Asia's Real Estate Assets Risks and Climate Change's Impacts
Attributions speaks to Philip Taspall, the Group Lead in Corporate and Finance Sector Engagement at XDI--the Cross Dependency Initiative--and part of the Climate Risk Group, about a new report from XDI on climate change impacts and their risks ...
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Episode 15
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24:26
Can Offshore Wind in S. Korea Coexist with Fishing Communities?
Attributions speaks with Mark Hutchinson, the director and chair of the Southeast Asia Task Force at the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).We speak to Mark about a recent report published by GWEC about the offshore wind industry attempti...
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Episode 14
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22:20
Heatwaves, Public Health and the Paris Olympic Games
Attributions speaks to Hannah Mason about all things heatwaves and public health at sporting events.Hannah is a lecturer and researcher at the College of Public Health, Medical, and Veterinary Sciences at James Cook University. She's worked...
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Episode 13
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31:48
The Indian Election, Public Policy and Climate Impacts
Attributions speaks with Anjal Prakash about the Indian elections in the context of climate change and public policy.Anjal is an Associate Professor and Research Director at the Bharti Institute of Public Policy at the Indian School of B...
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Episode 12
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39:49
The Climate Impacts of Heatwaves on Central Asia's Winter
Attributions speaks with Davide Faranda about a recent study he and other scientists conducted on the attribution of climate change on the heatwaves that affected Central As...
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Episode 11
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34:08
Women's Climate Crisis: Insights and Impacts
Attributions speaks with Gaia Zanaboni about the impacts of climate change on women for International Women's Day.Gaia works with Women Engaged for a Common Future (WECF), a non-profit organisation. H...
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Episode 10
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29:20
Extreme Flooding and Changing Climate Systems
Attributions speaks with Steve Turton about all things extreme flooding, climate and weather systems, and recent climate change impacts in Australia and the globe.Steve is an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography at Central Queen...
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Episode 9
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45:30
Climate Change's Impacts on Himalayan Glaciers
Attributions speaks with Finu Shrestha about climate change's impacts on the Himalayan and Hindu Kush mountain ranges ice pack and glaciers. We talked about what kind of effects are being felt in the mountains, how the glaciers are responding t...
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Episode 8
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30:58
COP28: A Summary of What Happened in Dubai
In this episode of Attributions, Climate Impacts Tracker summarizes the main events, announcements and agreements at the COP28 climate change conference that wrapped up in Dubai in December 2023. While the COP did not provide transf...
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Episode 7
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9:32
Indonesian Palm Oil, Deforestation, Biofuels and Carbon Offsets
Today we speak with Hans Nicholas Jong. Hans is a journalist in Indonesia and a staff writer at Mongabay, where he has been writing for six years about environmental issues surrounding palm oil, indigenous land rights, carbon trading, deforesta...
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Episode 6
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45:22
The Science Behind Heat Waves and Extreme Weather in Asia
Attributions speaks with Dr Roxy Mathew Koll. Roxy is a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Metrology. He's made breakthrough contributions to observing and predicting the Indo-Pacific climate related to the region's food, wat...
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Episode 5
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1:14:48
How Wildlife Conservation Can Capture Carbon Emissions
In this episode we speak with Oswald Schmitz about a recent scientific paper he co-authored and published in the journal of Nature Climate Change related to how wildlife and rewilding can expand natural climate solutions, or in other words abso...
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Episode 4
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50:17
Indian Agricultural Policy and Climate Change
We speak with Devinder Sharma about all things India, agriculture, climate change and importantly agricultural policy in India. We visit topics like the recent heatwaves and their impacts on Ind...
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Episode 3
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48:31
The Cost of Climate Change on Coral Reefs
We speak with Dr Katharina Fabricius about climate change's impacts on the oceans and coral reef ecosystems. We also talk about how little the ocean has been explored, that it is the worlds largest carbon sink, the effects of coral bleaching, o...
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Episode 2
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44:30
Malaysia’s Palm Oil Deforestation the Indigenous Batek
In this episode, host Ashley Crowther, speaks with James Whitlow Delano about his time documenting the plight of one of Malaysia's last indigenous peoples, the Batek. We speak about what drew James to this particular story, who the Batek are, t...
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Episode 1
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47:52