Why can’t the UN fix climate change? Or can it?

30 Sep 2026 · 41 min · S3 E6

Episode Why can’t the UN fix climate change? Or can it?

0:00 41:27

Janaline, Luke and Glenn look at the history of international climate negotiations and ask why has it all been so hard? Maybe we are asking for the wrong thing - instead of asking countries to give something up (fossil fuel use), what if we asked them to build something new instead, in the form of decarbonised heavy industry supply chains? Something less vulnerable to other people’s wars…

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Music: "Insurrection"

Written by Pierre Chrétien

Performed by the Soul Jazz Orchestra

Courtesy of Do Right Music Inc

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