ClimateGenn hosted by Nick Breeze

In this episode Nick Breeze speaks with a range of producers hearing how critical it is to invest in communities, building house, schools, offering scholarships to children and transport links.Download the FREE ebook: https://sustentabilidade.vinhosdoalentejo.pt/uploads/ebook/into-the-heat.pdfWithout communities in this scarcely populated region, there would be no development of regenerative agriculture. Without the economic structure of business the land, degraded from decades past, would turn to desert and spread north. Supporting communities in Alentejo is literally holding back the Sahara.

Southern Portugal’s alentejo region is the location setting for our tour of sustainability practices but Portugal is facing a range of different environmental challenges that will become more pronounced in coming years. In this episode with guest prof. Francisco Ferreira, we delve into the water, heat and other climate issues.Francisco Ferreira is a professor of Environmental Engineering at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and president of the environmental NGO ZERO, recognized for his extensive work on air quality, climate change, and sustainable development in Lisbon and across Portugal.Download the FREE ‘Into The Heat’ ebook:

Jason Box accepted the invitation to come Into The Heat with Nick Breeze and here he gives insights into what he saw. At the outset, Jason thought the efforts to survive in these conditions were ‘fighting gravity’. After 2 days, that view changed. Jason also offers great insights into the potential for using data rich landscapes to create digital twins that can help produce greater quality products resilience in anticipating future climate.Download the FREE ebook: https://sustentabilidade.vinhosdoalentejo.pt/uploads/ebook/into-the-heat.pdfProfessor Jason Box is an American glaciologist renowned for his pioneering research on the Greenland ice sheet, having participated in over 30 expeditions since 1994 and leading projects such as the Dark Snow Project and the Extreme Ice Survey to study ice-climate interactions and glacier dynamics. He is a professor at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and is prominently featured in the documentary film Into the Ice, which follows his fieldwork investigating the mass balance and melt processes of Greenland’s ice sheet. Box is among the most cited scientists in his field, has contributed to major climate reports including the IPCC, and is recognized for his impactful science communication and advocacy on climate change. Jason has also featured in many Climate.Genn podcast episodes on this channel in the last ten years.

In this episode, Nick Breeze discusses with author and broadcaster Janet Wang, how interventions in landscapes and agriculture can have a positive impact, and how what may appear out of control, might just be a very happy ecosystem.Janet Z. Wang is a British-Chinese wine journalist, author, and TV pundit renowned for her expertise on Chinese wine and culture. She is the author of The Chinese Wine Renaissance: A Wine Lover’s Companion (Ebury Press, 2020), a comprehensive guide exploring the history, varieties, and cultural significance of wine in China, with a foreword by Oz Clarke OBE. Wang is a principal Chinese-speaking member of the prestigious Circle of Wine Writers and the Association of Wine Educators.The video podcasts can be viewed here or on Youtube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.Download the Into The Heat ebook: https://sustentabilidade.vinhosdoalentejo.pt/uploads/ebook/into-the-heat.pdf

Diving into what regenerative really means and how it both increases resilience to climate extremes and rebuilds soil climate sinks. The soils currently hold roughly twice as much carbon than the atmosphere.Download the FREE ebook: ⁠https://sustentabilidade.vinhosdoalentejo.pt/uploads/ebook/into-the-heat.pdf⁠Kimberly Nicholas is a sustainability scientist and full professor at Lund University in Sweden, renowned for her research on climate change, sustainable food systems, and the connections between people, land, and climate. She is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE: How to be Human in a Warming World, has published over 65 peer-reviewed articles, and communicates climate solutions through her widely read newsletter and frequent international lectures.

João Barroso is the Sustainability and R&D Director at Wines of Alentejo, where he developed and leads the award-winning Wines of Alentejo Sustainability Programme, coordinating and monitoring sustainability performance across Portugal’s largest wine region.Download the FREE ‘Into The Heat’ ebook:https://sustentabilidade.vinhosdoalentejo.pt/uploads/ebook/into-the-heat.pdfA closer look behind the #sustainability certification in Alentejo Portugal. #wine #climatechange #drought

Welcome to ‘Into The Heat’. Join me on a two week road trip across Alentejo in Southern Portugal, visiting the Wines of Alentejo Sustainability Programme (WASP) certified wine producers. In this series we are going to discover:We are going to learn about how Europe’s most climate vulnerable wine region is learning, not just to cope with a hotter climate, but how to thrive in it– boosting biodiversity, creating job security, improving viticulture techniques that defy expectations and meet consumer expectations of elegance and incredible more-ish-ness.The video podcasts can be viewed here or on Youtube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.Download free ebook: https://sustentabilidade.vinhosdoalentejo.pt/uploads/ebook/into-the-heat.pdfJoin Nick Breeze, Jason Box, Janet wang and João Barroso on a 2 week road-trip across Alentejo in S Portugal.

In this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with professor Jennifer Francis from the Woodwell Climate Research Center. Jennifer is a leading expert on the changes going on in the Arctic region and as she says– these changes will impact everyone on Earth.The Arctic is a gigantic ecosystem worthy of our protection– and yet at this time, world powers talk of domination and resource extraction– demonstrating hubris and reckless ambition, when what we need is a unified plan for restoration and preservation.

"I call international environmental law a '30% solution'—it's not the most important factor in addressing problems like climate change. Politics, science, economics, and social attitudes all play crucial roles. Law can contribute, but it's just one piece."Order here: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Craft-International-Environmental-Law/dp/019767237XIn this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with the Regent’s Professor at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Dan Bodansky, about the second edition of his book ‘The Art and Craft of International Law’.Dan is a recognised expert having worked on a range of negotiations across the decades including being part of the US negotiating team at the UNFCCC in the 1990’s. Dan’s talks through how International Environmental Law has evolved with state and non-state actors–including how civil society plays a role in creating momentum that can translate into societal norms that lead to international agreements.All of this is set against the rogue nature of the current US administration and the drastically reduced operating space in which we have to preserve a liveable climate.In the next episode I am speaking with Professor Jennifer Francis from the Woods Hole Research Centre, for an update on record Sea Ice loss in the Arctic and the myriad impacts this has on so many other parts of the global climate system.Forthcoming episodes also include my speaking with Zita Sebesvari, Deputy director of the United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security –who is the lead author on a new Interconnected Disaster Risks report. And also an in-depth discussion with professor Mike McCracken about the role of solar radiation management geoengineering, offering a nuanced response to my recent interview with professor Raymond Pierrehumbert.Thanks to all subscribers. Please do send feedback or like and share, or become a member on Youtube or Patreon to support the channel. Thank you.

In this Climategenn episode I am speaking with Mike Berners-Lee about his new book ‘Climate Of Truth’. Mike gives us his spiralling definition of the poly crisis that we are faced with today.Order here: https://amzn.to/3G59RlPHe cites examples of deceit in our society that have not just created the dire problems we face today but are actually doubling down as we accelerate into the crosshairs of nightmare consequences.Despite the seriousness of the threats, ‘Climate of Truth’ is a pragmatic book helping to find ways to tap into personal agency, switching off malignant media, while calling out the lies and delusion that have gripped western society.In the next episode I will be speaking with esteemed legal expert, Professor Dan Bodansky from Arizona State University, about the 2nd Edition of ‘The Art And Craft of International Environmental Law’. We’ll be discussing the complexities of how International Environmental Law has emerged, how it is effective and whether it is even going to survive what some are calling the ‘post-rules’ era – which sounds to me like an age of total chaos.Subscribers help keep the interview series going and we have many more episodes in the pipeline in this period of environmental-socio-political flux. Thank you to all who subscribe - please do send feedback or add comments. I do try to read and respond. You can also order my cook COPOUT that is available worldwide from many online retailers.