Season 4 | Episode 12

The Ants Go Marching

Transcript

The UN climate talks, or COPs, are attempting the biggest, most complicated, highest-stakes group project humanity has ever known. They are, in a sense, an attempt to design a revolution—to help guide a massive societal transformation that needs to happen all around the world, all at once, to curb climate chaos.

But design and planning are rarely how paradigm shifts actually happen. So how do we actually make it happen? And can we do it fast enough? 

This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5.” In this episode, we continue our journey at COP26 in Glasgow to see what the process for organizing a social and economic revolution really looks like and explore what kind of collaboration this kind of climate transformation asks of all of us. 

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Original illustration by Sally Deng © 2021.

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COP26: The Negotiations Explained
COP26: The Negotiations Explained

Resource provided by the UN Climate Change Conference

COP26 – what happened, and where next?
COP26 – what happened, and where next?

Article published in The Bartlett at University College London

 

Guests

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Dr. Saleemul Huq
Dr. Saleemul Huq

Saleemul Huq OBE is a Bangladeshi-British scientist and is the Director of the International Centre for Climate Change & Development based in Bangladesh, and Professor at Independent University, Bangladesh. He is an expert in the field of climate change, environment and development.

Dr. Adelle Thomas
Dr. Adelle Thomas

Adelle is Senior Caribbean Research Associate for the IMPACT project and part of the Science team at Climate Analytics. She is also a Senior Fellow at The University of The Bahamas. Her focus is on aspects of social vulnerability, adaptation strategies and loss and damage.

Time to 1.5

The Ants Go Marching is episode twelve in Threshold Season 4, Time to 1.5

Credits

This episode of Threshold was produced and reported by Nick Mott and Amy Martin, with help from managing editor Erika Janik and Sam Moore. The music is by Todd Sickafoose. The rest of the Threshold team is Caysi Simpson, Deneen Wiske, Eva Kalea and Shola Lawal. Our intern is Emery Veilleux. Thanks to Sally Deng, Maggy Contreras, Hana Carey, Dan Carreno, Luca Borghese, Julia Barry, Kara Cromwell, Katie deFusco, Caroline Kurtz, and Gabby Piamonte. Special thanks to Dan Nagler, Christopher Preston, Leslie Scott, Katy Scott, Joseph Harvey, and Taliah Farnsworth.

 

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