Climate Decoded

Ahead of COP29 kicking off on November 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan, we're dropping an old favourite episode into the Climate Decoded feed. Attracting tens of thousands of delegates, the Climate COP is the world's biggest climate conference, held annually with the aim of advancing collective decision-making on climate change.

In this two-part episode, producers Greg and Izzie offer an exclusive glimpse behind the scenes of COP. They delve into the inherent challenges embedded in its structure, engage in conversations with a diverse range of COP participants, from former prime ministers to youth activists, and unravel this year’s big talking points - and all of this will be viewed through the prism of that stormy formative period in one's life: high school.

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Welcome to Season 3 of Climate Decoded, the podcast that deciphers climate change communication. We untangle how different narratives illuminate or obscure pathways to climate justice.

This season, we have an abundance of climate comms content coming your way!

Moving forward there will be three types of episodes:

In our Climate Chats, we speak to experts, authors, and activists from around the world. These are more unscripted and casual.

In our Climate Reviews, we review contemporary and classic pieces of creative and critical climate work, from books to films and beyond. Kind of like a climate change book club.

And in our Deep Dive Episodes, we really dig into the biggest climate topics of today, from misinformation to eco-anxiety to climate litigation. We spend months researching, interviewing, and considering nuanced perspectives to bring thoughtful, approachable analyses of big climate topics.

And occasionally, we do Episode Swaps with other climate change podcasts, to spread awareness about all the great conversations happening in the climate comms space.

Our mission with Climate Decoded is to improve climate media literacy, foster meaningful climate conversations and spur informed, just action on climate change. We hope you’ll share this episode with a friend, in an effort to do just that.

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Environmental defenders — who work on the frontlines of climate change — face multiple dangers, legal and lethal. In this episode, we investigate the role of communication in their frontline work and how it can both amplify and counter the dangers they face.

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Dr. Jane Lubchenco is an eminent environmental scientist and marine ecologist who was formerly the Administrator of NOAA, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She is a Distinguished Professor and the Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology at Oregon State University, and in 2021 was loaned to the White House to serve as Deputy Director for Climate and the Environment in the Office of Science and Technology Policy under the Biden administration. She previously co-founded three organizations that train scientists to be better communicators and engage more effectively with the public, policy makers, media and industry: COMPASS, the Leopold Leadership Program (now the Earth Leadership Program), and Climate Central. She believes we can harness science and creativity and work with nature to achieve a healthy and resilient oceans, productive landscapes, vibrant communities and people.

This interview was done before Dr. Lubchenco gave a public talk at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon on April 16, 2025. We discuss a new narrative for thinking about the ocean - from “Too Big to Fail” to “Too Big to Fix” to “Too Central to Ignore." She also shares some reactions to the current administration in relation to NOAA. You can listen to the recording of her public talk at hmsc.oregonstate.edu.

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Vajra Chandrasekera is a writer from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) won Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards, and was nominated for the Le Guin, Lammy, and Hugo, among others. His second novel Rakesfall (2024) won the Otherwise Award and is a Nebula and Locus award finalist, and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, NPR, and Esquire. His short stories, poems, and articles have appeared in many publications including Clarkesworld, West Branch, and The Los Angeles Times. In this chat, Vajra discusses the value of art in exploring different aspects of humanity, climate fiction as a theme in writing alongside capitalism and empire, and the writing pleasure in subverting literary tropes.

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