Attributions speaks with Mark Hutchinson, the director and chair of the Southeast Asia Task Force at the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). We speak to Mark about a recent report published by GWEC about the offshore wind industry attempting to coexist with South Korean fishing communities. Other topics include what kind of challenges offshore wind …

Attributions speaks to Hannah Mason about all things heatwaves and public health at sporting events. Hannah is a lecturer and researcher at the College of Public Health, Medical, and Veterinary Sciences at James Cook University. She's worked on a wide range of public health and safety research projects, including exploring the impact of heatwaves o…

Attributions speaks with Anjal Prakash about the Indian elections in the context of climate change and public policy. Anjal is an Associate Professor and Research Director at the Bharti Institute of Public Policy at the Indian School of Business, whose work focuses on climate change, water, gender issues and urban resilience in South Asia. Anjal ha…

Attributions speaks with Davide Faranda about a recent study he and other scientists conducted on the attribution of climate change on the heatwaves that affected Central Asia last year, along with a recap on some of the science behind heat waves, the impacts that heatwaves are having in the region and many other topics. Davide is senior scientist …

Attributions speaks with Gaia Zanaboni about the impacts of climate change on women for International Women's Day. Gaia works with Women Engaged for a Common Future (WECF), a non-profit organisation. Her work primarily revolves around exploring the connections between international climate policies and their effects on women and girls. During our d…

Attributions speaks with Steve Turton about all things extreme flooding, climate and weather systems, and recent climate change impacts in Australia and the globe. Steve is an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography at Central Queensland University. Steve has had a distinguished career across academia where he's held senior research and counse…

Attributions speaks with Finu Shrestha about climate change's impacts on the Himalayan and Hindu Kush mountain ranges ice pack and glaciers. We talked about what kind of effects are being felt in the mountains, how the glaciers are responding to warming, weather pattern changes and water security for billions of people across Asia that rely on Hima…

In this episode of Attributions, Climate Impacts Tracker summarizes the main events, announcements and agreements at the COP28 climate change conference that wrapped up in Dubai in December 2023. While the COP did not provide transformative change, many agreed that it was a successful conference with several key climate-related initiatives being li…

Today we speak with Hans Nicholas Jong. Hans is a journalist in Indonesia and a staff writer at Mongabay, where he has been writing for six years about environmental issues surrounding palm oil, indigenous land rights, carbon trading, deforestation, energy transition and much more. Previously, he was a journalist at the Jakarta Post for five years.…

Attributions speaks with Dr Roxy Mathew Koll. Roxy is a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Metrology. He's made breakthrough contributions to observing and predicting the Indo-Pacific climate related to the region's food, water and economic security. Roxy is also a leader author on the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change re…

In this episode we speak with Oswald Schmitz about a recent scientific paper he co-authored and published in the journal of Nature Climate Change related to how wildlife and rewilding can expand natural climate solutions, or in other words absorb more carbon - the study is called Trophic Rewilding Can Expand Natural Climate Solutions Oswald is a Pr…

We speak with Devinder Sharma about all things India, agriculture, climate change and importantly agricultural policy in India. We visit topics like the recent heatwaves and their impacts on Indian agriculture, how important the monsoon is to Indian crops, the farmer protests that shook the country, agricultural policy related to giving farmers a l…

We speak with Dr Katharina Fabricius about climate change's impacts on the oceans and coral reef ecosystems. We also talk about how little the ocean has been explored, that it is the worlds largest carbon sink, the effects of coral bleaching, ocean acidification, if there is any potential for corals to adapt to warmer ocean surface waters, and othe…

In this episode, host Ashley Crowther, speaks with James Whitlow Delano about his time documenting the plight of one of Malaysia's last indigenous peoples, the Batek. We speak about what drew James to this particular story, who the Batek are, the attitudes from Malaysian government towards indigenous people, palm oil deforestation affecting their t…