Radio Dadaab

This report tells the stories of those on the frontlines of the climate crisis in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya. These stories highlight the devastating impacts of the drought in the Horn of Africa and the link between global heating and forced displacement.

Burning paradise: how the EU is fuelling the Pantanal's demise

EU supply chains are directly driving the destruction of the Pantanal, one of the world's largest wetlands. Expanding anti-deforestation legislation could protect it.

The risk of sleepwalking into deep-sea disaster is at hand, say government officials

More and more states are coming forward and calling for a stop to the rush towards deep-sea mining, including France and Germany. Sebastian Unger, Germany’s Federal Government Commissioner for the Ocean, and Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, the French Ambassador for the Poles and Maritime Issues, tell us why deep-sea mining poses a grave threat to this pristine marine ecosystem.

Towards the abyss: How the rush to deep-sea mining threatens people and our planet

The deep sea remains a pristine ecosystem, largely untouched by human activity. But deep-sea mining, which could be allowed to start as early as July 2023 threatens to significantly disturb the delicate environment of the deep sea, with devastating consequences for life on earth.

Webinar: "Deep-sea mining: A new industry threatens our ocean"

A new industry is threatening our ocean: Deep-sea mining risks destroying fragile marine ecosystems, precious habitats and undiscovered species, with potentially devastating consequences for our planet’s health, local and indigenous communities, and future generations.

Hidden by murky governance and conflicts of interest, we cannot let companies strip mine the seabed against the opposition of people, scientists, governments and many of the companies they claim they would be providing for. We urgently need to stop deep-sea mining before it has even started.

Recording of the 147th episode of Europe Calling in cooperation with the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) with:

• Steffi Lemke, German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
• Steven Trent, Executive Director and Founder of the Environmental Justice Foundation
• Dr Lisa Levin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, USA, one of the world's leading experts on the deep seafloor
• Claudia Becker, Senior Expert Sustainable Supply Chain Management at the car manufacturer BMW
• Franziska Brantner, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection

Deadly bargain: Western markets and violence against Indigenous people

Pantanal on offer: Global markets and the destruction of the largest tropical wetland on the planet

We Cannot Go to the Moon: Climate Collapse and the Sámi People

The impacts of the climate crisis are keenly felt by the Sámi people, whose traditional ways of life are under threat despite their negligible contribution to global emissions. The nations, companies and people responsible for the bulk of global heating must act to end this environmental injustice.