Welcome back to Your Planet from AFP brought to you in association with The Conversation. Throughout this series we've endeavoured to explore solutions that offer hope for a more sustainable future on planet earth, but some of them, as we’ve discovered, are a bit more complicated than offering straightforward solutions.  In this final episode we’re putting the climate itself directly in the dock as we investigate the role of litigation. Can it possibly act as a viable solution...

Welcome back to Your Planet from AFP brought to you in association with The Conversation. Now so far in this series we’ve been exploring the potential solutions to take us forward to a more sustainable future and away from those planetary boundaries that tip us in the wrong direction. But we have done so from dry land - so it’s about time we take a deep dive into one major element of our planet - our oceans.  What impact do human activities and the climate crisis have on the oceans and how do...

Welcome back to Your Planet a podcast series from AFP brought to you in association with The Conversation, that delves into solutions for addressing climate change. We’ve been examining those planetary boundaries, the red lines that scientists say must not be crossed or else we are in big trouble. This time our focus is on water. We all rely on it, from humans to animals to plants, nothing can survive without water. Around 70 percent of Earth’s surface is made up of water, but the problem for...

Welcome back to Your Planet a podcast series from AFP brought to you in association with The Conversation, that delves into solutions for addressing climate change. In previous episodes we’ve delved deep into the earth’s epoch to uncover what it tells us about where our earth is now, we’ve stepped back in time to the 1980s to understand what lessons can be learned from the crisis of the ozone layer… and we’ve examined carbon capture and the nuclear dilemma…  This episode looks into the future...

Welcome back to Your Planet from AFP in association with The Conversation. Nuclear power has been one of the hot topics at the United Nations climate change conference, COP28 in Dubai, the focus being on accelerating various aspects of nuclear energy. More than 20 nations ranging from the US to Ghana, Japan and several European countries including France called for the tripling of nuclear energy capacity by 2050 from 2020 levels. Is nuclear power really good for the climate? Is it truly an...

Welcome back to Your Planet, a podcast series brought to you in association with The Conversation, that delves into solutions for addressing climate change.  We explore and analyse some of the solutions that are being proposed to make out planet's future more sustainable. Do they all work? Or are some offering false hope? In this episode we take a look at carbon capture and storage (CCS), a big focus of the UN's COP28 climate talks. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...

Welcome back to Your Planet, a podcast series brought to you in association with The Conversation that delves into solutions for addressing climate change and the ecological crisis.  In the first episode of Your Planet we took a deep dive into the Anthropocene -- the name given to a new epoch that many scientists believe Planet Earth has already entered, and which those experts say is marked by humanity’s unprecedented footprint on the earth.   This time we go back to the 1980's, when we had...

The climate crisis raises many questions but we go looking for solutions. In the first episode of a new AFP podcast series we start in Canada at "ground zero" for a possible new geological era for planet earth. But what are the implications and what solutions can be found?  Swedish professor in environmental science Johan Rockstrom head of the Stockholm resilience centre at Stokholm University, has worked on a guide to assess Earth's imbalances and set targets for overcoming them. To learn...

Welcome to Your Planet, a new podcast series from the international news agency AFP, brought to you in association with The Conversation.  As world leaders are about to meet for the United Nations annual climate change conference, COP28, in Dubai, join us for this 8 part series. We’ll delve into solutions debated at the COP at a critical time for our planet. From the global south to the global north we’ll examine their potential and analyse how they aim to lead us into a more sustainable...