218. October Mailbag

This week it is over to you, our listeners as the hosts strive to answer all of your challenging and wonderful questions:  Should we be having children? How long have we got? How do international conflicts impact climate? And so many more… Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to send through a question to our hosts, you made this a very special episode. Apologies if we weren’t able to get to yours, please do go and engage with us on social media and share your thoughts.  We also have an edited interview between our friend and colleague Sue Reid and the incredible Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, a Tanzanian biodiversity leader and lawyer, speaking in her capacity as Co-Chair of The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) on the incredible launch of TNFD’s final framework/recommendations at Climate Week NYC on 18 Sept and the urgent need to shake up current paradigms that still pervasively treat nature as disposable and limitless. Music this week comes from Passiflora and their wonderful track ‘Bosque’.  NOTES AND RESOURCES   Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week Links to the report mentioned by the hosts at the top of the episode called: Latin American successes in the energy transition can be found here   Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme and Co-Chair of The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) LinkedIn | Twitter   Here is the link to the published TNFD framework.    MUSIC GUEST   Passiflora Facebook | Instagram | Bandcamp | Spotify | Soundcloud Check out Passiflora’s Live Album ‘Noches en vela’ on Bandcamp Learn more about the Paris Agreement.   It’s official, we’re a TED Audio Collective Podcast - Proof! Check out more podcasts from The TED Audio Collective   Please follow us on social media! Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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