Renew Our World Podcast

"Climate Negotiation is filled with deceit, hypocrisy and lies" says Dr Lesmore the Director of Programmes for All Africa Conference of Churches. In this Episode, Dr Gibson Ezekiel Lesmore talks about; Climate Justice, Abundant Africa, Climate Injustice, Corruption, Political and Religious leaders, Climate Activism, the Church and more!!!  Dr Lesmore dives deep in this conversation as he shares his unfiltered opinions on the Church's responsibility in the fight against Climate Injustice.

As we count down to the third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastics pollution coming up in a few days, listen to this Bilingual Episode that features Tearfund's Campaigner, Hannah Llyod as co-host who talks to two activists from Latin America who attended the second session of the plastics Negotiations in Paris.  Languages spoken in this episode are; English, Spanish and Portuguese.  Here are some of the links to follow up on what Hannah shared in this episode; Stunt image: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs3w0D5olIe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==   BFFP March: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/plastics-treaty-march-2023/ Join the Youth coalition: youthenvironment.org/gycpp   Engage with the negotiations online Zero Draft Document: https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/43239/ZERODRAFT.pdf INC3 landing page: https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution/session-3 Watch the plenary sessions on the webcast: https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution/webcast#INC3   

"Real change starts from the bottom to the top, don't stop doing good as God sees it all even when man doesn't" says Paul Cook the head of Advocacy for Tearfund in this episode as he shares his story and Journey in line with the works he does.   Have a listen and be Blessed!  

In this episode, Jessica Bwali talks to Tearfund Senior Policy Advisor, Lucy Tanner and Tearfund UK Campaigns Associate Hannah Lloyd who attended the second session of the Plastics negotiations that took place in Paris from 29th May to 2nd June 2023. Lucy and Hannah share about their experience and their hopes for the forth coming plastic negotiations. Have a listen! If you are interested in being part of the forthcoming 3rd Session of the plastic negotiations that will take place in Nairobi Kenya in November 2023, you can send an email to campaigns@tearfund.org. For more on Plastics treaty negotiations, visit  https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution

In this episode, Anne Mumbi (Tearfund Influencing Lead for Southern and East Africa) and Martin Uswege (Tearfund CCT Southern and East Africa regional Lead) talks about Church and Community Transformation CCT in Southern and East Africa Region. They share about the journey and impact of CCT in the region and their hopes for the future.  

As the second Session of the intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution (INC-2) kicks off today, May 29th 2023 in Paris. Jessica Bwali had a discussion with Jack Wakefield, Senior Campaigner - Plastic Pollution for Tearfund who shared about the Rubbish Campaign Tearfund is currently running and he shared  about what he hopes the outcomes will be at the INC-2. The INC-2 is working towards developing an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including the marine environment with the ambition to complete the negotiations by end of 2024.      

In this new Episode, Jessica Bwali talks to Jennipher Sakala the Regional Director for Southern and East Africa Tearfund about Church and Community Transformation CCT and its impact on many lives.

Jessica Bwali in Lusaka hears what climate change looks like in different countries, from  Collins Lungu  @Lungucollins02 from Zambia Youth Environment Network https://www.facebook.com/zyenmain/,  Ewi Stephanie Lamma @ewi_lamma from Cameroon and the Africa Climate Reality Project https://climatereality.africa/getting-to-know-ewi-stephanie-lamma/  Matthias Boehning @mkboehning from Germany and the World Evangelical Alliance Sustainability Centre https://wea-sc.org/en/home  Cyprian Kiteng'e from Kenya and Climate YES https://climateyes.org/ Promise Salawu from Renew Our World Nigeria and Tearfund Nigeria

Jessica Bwali talks to an amazing group of Renew Our World COP veterans reflecting together on COP27 in Egypt and looking forward to COP28 in Dubai. Cyprian Kiteng'e from Kenya, coordinator of Climate YES, Ewi Lamma from the Africa Climate Reality Project, based in Cameroon, Lungu Collins from Zambia Youth Environment Network, Matthias Boehning from the World Evangelical Alliance Sustainability Centre in Germany, and Promise Salawu from Renew Our World Nigeria. 

Dr Tinashe Gumbo from Zimbabwe talks to Jessica Bwali about how Economic and  Ecological Justice can be achieved. Dr Tinashe is the All Africa Conference of Churches Executive Secretary for Economic and Ecological Justice. 

Juan Rachael Michael from South Sudan Council of Churches talks to Jessica Bwali about how oil spills and climate change are hitting people in South Sudan, especially women - and what they're doing about it.

David chats to Megan Rowland regarding the climate policies of the new UK government. 

In this episode of the Renew Our World podcast, we chat with climate activist and journalist Jessica Bwali from Zambia. Jessica fills us in on her experiences at the recent Commonwealth Heads of State meetings.

We chat to Emma Wyndham Chalmers from tearfund Australia who gives us the low down on the Australian 'climate election'.

In this episode David chats to Tom Swaffield-Bray about how to decarbonise your life. 

Sinan and Gee from Eco Brixs join David to chat about the UN Environment Assembly. 

As the dust settles on COP26, David chats to Sue Willsher, Julia Kendal, Ben Niblett and Megan Hermes about the outcomes of the conference. We put the outcomes through a policy and campaigns microscope and try and offer some thoughts on where to next for the climate movement.

In this episode, David chats to Promise from Tearfund Nigeria and Kuki from EFICOR live from COP26!

As COP26 draws closer, we chat to Sue Willsher from Tearfund's policy team about what to expect from this years UN climate conference.

Kuki Rokhum from EFICOR in India encourages us that while the time to act was yesterday, we still have today.

On this episode David chatted to Marcus Matos and José Muniz of RECAP, a Brazilian Christian lawyers network.

Welcome back to the Renew Our World podcast! We kick off the second series chatting to Julia Kendal about why COP26 is so important.     

On this week's episode of the podcast, David chats to Kevin Hargaden, Social Theologian at the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Action in Dublin, Ireland.  

On this week's episode of the podcast, Elise and David chat about the upcoming US election and discuss the Trump vs Biden climate action plans.

On this week's episode of the podcast David sits down with Dr. Rachel Mash to chat all things Season of Creation. 

Elise and David catch up and share their season 1 highlights and discuss whether or not people care or not about climate change. 

On this week's episode of the podcast, David catches up with Seth from A Rocha Ghana who are campaigning against the Ghanian governments plans to destroy the Atewa Forest – a globally important ecosystem that harbours extraordinary wildlife and provides water for 5 million people.

This week we are joined by Paul and Anna from Cassinia where we talk about conservation, environmental business and the christian call to care for creation.

On this week's episode of the podcast we catch up with Andy Bownds, founder of our newest partners, Eco Brixs in Uganda. Eco Brixs is a Closed-loop Recycling Programme that are helping to tackle the issue of plastic waste and high unemployment in Uganda.     

This week we interview Ulan Garba Matta, team leader at the Jos Green Centre in Nigeria. This is a centre for young people in eco-entrepreneurship – that is, businesses based on eco issues, renewable energy or anything that is environmentally friendly. Join us as we hear Ulan's incredible story and about the work they are doing in Nigeria. 

Today we are joined by Ben Niblett, Renew Our World Campaign Director to hear a little bit about some of the climate advocacy campaign wins and building back stronger after COVID-19

Welcome to the official Renew Our World podcast! Join us for episode one where we discuss what Renew Our World is all about, who we are, and what we can expect from the podcast!