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‍Welcome to our Broadcast Hub during London Climate Action Week. We Don’t Have Time, and partners will broadcast live from London Climate Action Week from June 24 to 29, 2025.

Join us as we explore pressing climate issues with leading experts, scientists, policymakers, NGOs, business leaders, youth and more.

Read the full program: https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/londonclimateactionweek2025

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Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is more potent than carbon dioxide at heating our atmosphere. Reducing methane emissions – with methods including plugging abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells, improving agricultural practices, reducing food waste, capturing methane from landfills and coal mines, and repairing leaks in oil and gas infrastructure – is critical, but these efforts alone may not be enough. As a result, scientists have begun exploring ways to remove methane directly from the air.

Gabrielle Dreyfus (Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development) will moderate a conversation between Deborah Gordon (RMI) and Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz (Arizona State University) on why methane removal is being considered as part of the portfolio of strategies to manage methane, the different mitigation and methane removal approaches being explored, and challenges associated with advancing these solutions.

Climate Conversations: Pathways to Action is a monthly webinar series from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that aims to convene high-level, cross-cutting, nonpartisan conversations about issues relevant to policy action on climate change.

Participant Bios

Gabrielle Dreyfus is a Chief Scientist at the Institute of Governance & Sustainable Development working at the interface of science and policy to advance knowledge and action to slow warming in the near and long-term. She chaired the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Atmospheric Methane Removal: Development of a Research Agenda and is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.

Deborah Gordon is a Senior Principal at RMI and a methane emissions expert who began her career as a chemical engineer in the oil industry and has worked in the public and nonprofit sectors as an energy and climate policy analyst. In addition to leading RMI’s oil and gas climate initiative, she serves as a senior fellow at the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Gordon’s research spearheaded the development of the Oil Climate Index plus Gas (OCI+)- a first-of-its-kind analytic tool that compares the life-cycle climate impact of global oil and gas resources- which is the topic of her book, No Standard Oil (Oxford University Press, 2022 and due out in paperback, 2025).

Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University with a dual appointment in the School of Life Sciences and Biodesign Institute and leads the Ecology of Microorganisms and Ecosystems laboratory. His expertise spans the microbial physiology of methanogens and methanotrophs, ecosystem studies of methane emissions, as well as collaborations on landscape-level assessments of atmospheric methane. Cadillo-Quiroz’s current research focuses on methane production, consumption, and possible management questions including microbial interaction tests with pure cultures, small to medium scale bioreactors, as well as environmental studies of landfills, northern forest, and tropical peatlands in the Amazon Basin. He has been recognized with a Fulbright Scholarship, a Presidential Scholarship at Cornell University, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and an Honorific Doctorate in Forestry by the National University of the Peruvian Amazon. Cadillo-Quiroz received a B.S. in biology and microbiology from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru and a Ph.D. in microbiology with a minor in ecology from Cornell University.

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Established climate metrics such as Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) are frequently used to relate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to globally averaged temperature change or to define emissions reduction targets. However, this single-basket approach of combining GHGs that have different lifetimes (e.g., methane and CO2) into CO2-equivalents results in ambiguous warming impacts because it obscures the distinct time-dependent effects of each GHG. Here we develop an alternative approach that separates short- and long-lived pollutants, aka a multi-basket approach, and investigate its ability to meet climate goals. We show that this multi-basket always outperforms single-basket approaches (e.g., GWP100, GWP20, GWP*), reducing overshoot of a near-term temperature goal by a factor of seven. Out of this work, we also developed an alternative to GWP for methane that more accurately indicates its temperature change. This metric, termed Sum44, is the 44-year cumulative sum of methane emissions, and is comparable to GWP* in projecting temperature change, but with fewer of its implementation challenges. We finally propose how to use Sum44 when considering policy controls to meet near-term climate change targets.

Dr. Julie Miller is a Research Associate at the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD). She supports their work on short-lived climate pollutants, particularly methane, and has focused on policy-relevant metric science. Prior to IGSD, Julie was a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA focused on ant colony behavior. She obtained a PhD in Behavioral Ecology from Cornell University and has a BA in Biochemistry.

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When the law watches silently as the forest falls... who do we turn to?

In Hyderabad, a forest breathes its last. Kancha Gachibowli—400 acres of urban biodiversity—auctioned for IT parks. Students took to the streets. The state responded with barricades. The Supreme Court had to step in, calling out the government’s "alarming deforestation." But will it stop for good? Or just pause till the headlines fade?

Thousands of kilometres away, Great Nicobar’s ancient rainforest—home to vulnerable tribal communities and rare species—faces an irreversible blow. An ₹81,800 crore megaproject threatens to wipe out over 10 lakh trees, displace indigenous people, and shatter one of India’s most fragile ecosystems. No tribal mapping. No meaningful consultation. No ecological sanity. A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Reduced to a business pitch.

And the list goes on: Mumbai’s Aarey, Goa’s Mollem National Park, Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo—forests felled for coal, concrete, and convenience.

These aren't anomalies. They are symptoms of a deeper crisis:

- Laws that exist, but are circumvented.
- Development that builds, but erases centuries of coexistence with nature.
- Citizens who care, but are cornered.
- Justice that arrives, but often too late.

In Episode 9 of @shetalksgreen, I sit down with Zerin Osho Bamezai Raina, Director - India Program at Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD), to unpack:

- The strange paradoxes in India’s green laws
- The loopholes and silences in our environmental legal framework
- Why enforcement continues to fail the forests and the people
- What you and I can do when it feels like nature is being bulldozed for profit

Because asking people to “raise their voice” is not enough. We need to be legally informed, emotionally grounded, and collectively strategic.

If you’ve ever felt helpless hearing about yet another forest being cleared, this conversation is for you. This episode isn’t just an analysis—it’s a call to action.

📢 Listen. Share. Mobilize. Because protecting nature starts with knowing how. https://youtu.be/UbCkr9ldlgI

Key Milestones:
0:00 - Introduction
1:17 – Can Our Laws Handle Climate Inequality?
15:33 – Should Nature Have Legal Rights?
26:32 – Legal Rights for Rivers: Why is it still dying?
33:26 – When Faith Trumps Science: The Mahakumbh Debate
36:22 – India’s Arctic Policy: Why It Matters
53:02 – Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Have We Learned Anything?
1:02:01 – Criminalizing Dissent: Protests & the Environment
1:12:23 – Understanding The Methane Puzzle
1:28:09 – Why Can’t We Tackle Plastic?
1:34:22 – Power to the People: Local Climate Action
1:38:12 – Delhi’s Toxic Air: Band-aids on a gaping wound—where’s the urgency?
1:44:20 – Where Do You Report Environmental Violations?

Spotify: https://www.youtube.com/@shetalksgreen/videos
New to She Talks Green? Catch up on previous episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/@shetalksgreen/videos

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Radical position adopted by the President of the United States on global warming as being of human origin which he qualifies as a "hoax" is having a major impact, when the 1.5°C threshold seems to have been attained.

This event organised by the Task Force on Carbon Pricing in Europe, International Finance Forum (IFF), and Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD), with the contribution of high-level personalities, will peruse the current situation in the fight against climate change and start to examine the various tracks to be followed in order to keep momentum.

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We Don’t Have Time and UNEP's Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) are proud to present “Accelerating Action on Super Pollutants: The Road to COP30”.

It is a new three-part series shot in Brasilia in late March, in advance of the next, critical UN climate conference to be held in Belem, Brazil in November 2025.

This latest three-part series, filmed against the backdrop of Brazil’s most famous architect Oscar Niemeyer’s iconic post war buildings, involves interviews, debates and a field trip to an inspiring waste pickers project filmed during the CCAC’s annual conference of governments, UN officials, scientists, experts and grassroots organizations.

Short-lived climate pollutants, also known as super pollutants, are the “other half” of global warming. But because most of them last for a relatively short time in the atmosphere, urgent action to cut them could be an “emergency brake” at a time when the 1.5 C safety limit is under threat.

The thread running through this series is the inordinate opportunity for action in 2025 if, as nations revise their climate plans or NDCs in advance of a September deadline, short lived pollutants are woven into these plans. Stepped up action on these pollutants, which include methane, black carbon or soot, hydrofluorocarbons, tropospheric ozone or smog and nitrous oxides, could not only help the world to halve climate emissions by 2030 and meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement in its 10th anniversary year. It could also provide a big boost against health-hazardous air pollution, crop losses and the poisoning of natural systems.

What is not to like about this? So, settle back, enjoy, urge your elected officials to get engaged and take action yourself.

Go to the UNEP CCAC website to learn more.

And why not sign up to We Don’t Have Time’s campaign #BuyMoreTime

In this first episode, we look at the latest science and get a status report on the NDCs that have published, whether they are including super pollutants or not.

Speakers:

Martina Otto, Head of CCAC Secretariat, UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition
Drew Shindell , Distinguished Professor, Duke University
Kenza Khomsi, Climate and Air Quality Researcher, CCAC SAP
Gabrielle Dreyfus, Chief Scientist, IGSD
Orlando Cabrera-Rivera, Head of Unit, Environmental Quality, Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Leonardo Bichara Rocha, Senior Economist in the Agricultural and Food Unit, Latin America and Caribbean region, World Bank
Piotr Barczak, Circular Economy Program Manager, ACEN Foundation

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