by pennyurquhart | Apr 25, 2018 | climate change, climate conversations, Uncategorized
Everybody’s talking about it – climate change, that is. Fortuitously for Conversations on Climate, there are a host of related dialogues taking place in formal and informal avenues this year. One that needs to get pretty concrete, pretty soon is the Suva Expert...
by pennyurquhart | Mar 7, 2018 | climate change, climate conversations, Uncategorized
Standing on the deck of the RMS St Helena, miles of Atlantic Ocean all around, I felt loathe to connect with the downside of this dreamy way of travelling. Five nights on the ship, sadly now decommissioned, from Cape Town to the island of St Helena and the stress of...
by pennyurquhart | Dec 21, 2017 | climate change, climate conversations, food security and climate change
My last ‘conversation on climate’ for the year is with Dr. Morgan Wairiu from the Solomon Islands. Morgan is Deputy Director of the Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (PACE-SD) at the University of the South Pacific. We sat down over a...
by pennyurquhart | Aug 31, 2017 | climate change, climate conversations
Day 1 of the Botho/Ubuntu Dialogue on Spirituality, Science and Humanity and already the connections between Ubuntu and climate change were emerging. Held at Botho University, Gaborone, from 17-19 August 2017, the event was not framed as a conversation on climate...
by pennyurquhart | Aug 1, 2017 | climate conversations, climate justice, Uncategorized
Ibrahim Ceesay is a Gambian social justice activist and Chairperson of the Board of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change, a continent-wide youth platform with 45 country chapters and over 20,000 members. Ceesay, who is 31 years old, already has an impressive...
by pennyurquhart | Jun 22, 2017 | climate change, climate conversations, Uncategorized
It’s been a busy time and my next Conversations on Climate post is overdue – but in the meantime, have a look at this conversation Sam Mowe has with the New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert and the Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard on emotional responses to...
