Podcasts about carteret islands

Climate change has seen entire coastal communities relocate, from Cateret Islands in Bougainville to the village of Vunidogoloa on Vanua Levu, Fiji.

Sea level rise is already destroying people's homes across the Pacific. How do you move a whole island community?

Ursula Rakova's home in the Carteret Islands of Papua New Guinea is in danger of being washed away. The Catholic community organizer reflects on the challenges of relocating the Islanders, and the role faith plays in her life. And, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad on Europe's first eco-mosque, combining Islamic ideas of nature with green technologies.

Ursula Rakova's home in the Carteret Islands of Papua New Guinea is in danger of being washed away. The Catholic community organizer reflects on the challenges of relocating the Islanders, and the role faith plays in her life. And, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad on Europe's first eco-mosque, combining Islamic ideas of nature with green technologies.

This late into the climate crisis, it’s now time for us to embrace adaptation as a solution, as communities reconsider the fight for their ancestral homes. We welcome Mary’s friend, Ursula Rakova, executive director of Tulele Peisa on the Carteret Islands, who is helping almost its entire population migrate to safe land. And Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, Colette Pichon-Battle of Louisiana, USA who unpacks her work amongst local communities in the Bayou.

Celebrating 45 years of Friends of the Earth - Climate action to climate justice. In the 80s, FoE campaigned around "global warming", carbon debt and had a focus on the emissions of wealthy countries. We worked with people in the Carteret Islands impacted by climate change and ran speaking tours for speakers from India and Latin America to speak on the impacts of climate change in their regions. FoE focused on consumption as a global north issue as opposed to population control in global south, which was controversial at the time. Worked on climate refugee intake and when this failed, reducing emissions locally and our social justice model around Just Transitions. Presenters: Em Gayfer and Megan Williams. Guests: Stephanie Long, Wendy Flannery, Tristy Fairfield, Anna Langford, Emma Sanford.

The situation of the Carteret Islanders, often characterised as the first ‘climate change refugees’, has attracted much research interest. What is the impact of such interest? And are standard ethics compliance processes appropriate?

A conversation with Ursula Rakova of Tulele Peisa, a nonprofit formed by the elders of the Carteret Islands to direct the relocation of their communities from their low-lying island chain to the “big island” of Bougainville in Papau New Guinea. While the Paris framework considered 1.5 Celsius an aspirational target, increasingly cities are declaring 1.5 their goal right out of the gate, as has San Antonio. This movement from 'less-than-two' to 1.5 or less is hardly incidental but rather life or death for many of the world's low-lying island states, representatives of which pushed back hard on the 2-degree Paris proposal, insisting they needed “1.5 to stay alive.”

Between May 4- 15, a global wave of mass actions will target the world's most dangerous fossil fuel projects in order to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground.We hear about war refugees forced to abandon thier homes and way of life. If fossil fuels are not kept in the ground, climate refugees will be a common reality in the near future.This week on Dirt Radio, we hear from Ursula Rakova, director of a community relocation program in the Carteret Islands, a group of low lying atolls near Bougainville in PNG already experiencing the impact of climate change. Then we talk to Phil Evans, activist and community organizer from FoE Melbourne, about Australia's participation in the world-wide mass civil disobedience planned over the next few weeks to address the cause of the very conditions Ursula Rakova is currently dealing with - the continued reliance on fossil fuels.

The people of the Carteret Islands, a coral atoll off the coast of Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea, have been called the world's first climate refugees.Like many low-lying islands in the Pacific, the Carterets have been experiencing the effects of climate change first-hand. They have watched as their shorelines have been eroded by the sea, king-tides have swept right across their small islands, and salt water has literally bubbled-up through the ground. We hear from Ursula Rakova, director of Tulele Peisa, which is coordinating the migration of Carteret islanders to Bougainville."We need to act, and we need to act now... Australia needs to act immediately... we cannot wait anymore" -Ursula Rakova.Guests: Ursula Rakova (Tulele Peisa); Wendy Flannery (Climate Frontlines, FoE Brisbane)Links and more information:Make a tax dudctable donation to Tulele PeisaClimate Frontlines collective - Friends of the Earth Brisbane'“The Sea Walls Are Out In The Sea”: World's First Climate Refugees Ask For Australia's Help' - New Matilda'Rising Waters: How Fast and How Far Will Sea Levels Rise?' - Environment 360 

This week Kulja and Dylan talk to Richard Frankland about the 25th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.Then Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth talks about the communities of Carteret Islands and their decision to relocate due to global warming and rising sea levels destroying their home.Finally Mel Cranenburgh stops in for the Reading Room and talks to Jo Case the program manager at the Melbourne Writers Festival about short story collections.

This episode of Women on the Line will focus on the recent Paris climate talks, also known as COP21. We speak with two women who went to Paris for COP21, Maori activist Sina Brown-Davis, and Ursula Rakova from the Carteret Islands, an atoll north east of Bougainville in the Pacific which is in the process of relocating its population due to the encroaching of the sea.If listeners want to support Carteret Islanders in their relocation by donating to Tulele Peisa [http://www.tulele-peisa.org/] they can do so using the following account details. Donations will help the organisation to buy local materials such as timber to build housing.Carterets Trust Fund Bank of South Pacific (PNG)Branch - BUKAACCOUNT NUMBER: 1001202728 (8336) Swift Code: BOSPPGPM 

Climate change has already claimed its first victims. Displaced people from the Carteret Islands, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and the Niger delta have already become climate refugees but from whom can they seek refuge or even compensation? Environmental Justice Foundation is calling for legally binding agreements to protect those displaced and there are various legal cases in action that could set a precedent for compensation. 400 Alaskan residents are suing energy companies for creating a public nuisance and for conspiracy (in funding research to 'prove' there is no link between climate change and human activity). Tuvalu, the low lying nation in the pacific, has threatened to sue Australia and the United States for their contributions to climate change and in the latest and most high profile case Katrina victims are taking the big oil companies BP, Shell, Chevron Exxonmobile, to court. So far displaced people have not been defined as refugees so they have no legal rights but countries could be expected to take a number of migrants equivalent to their contribution or compensate victims for their loss. Myles Allan of Oxford University has set up models to predict how much climate change attributable to man has caused extreme weather conditions like the flooding here in the UK in 2000. Sophisticated modelling could make it easier to attribute blame and a recent ruling in the European Court means that victims of environmental crime should find it a lot easier to take their cases to court. Big insurance companies are already warning their clients to expect compensation suits but there is still some way to go before precedent has been set in the case of climate change and nobody knows what will happen once these floodgates have opened. Tom Heap talks to victims of Katrina who are already taking lawsuits and flood victims in the UK on the anniversary of the 2000 flooding to find out whether the courts can really offer compensation where international governments have failed to act.