Welcome to Your Planet, a new podcast series from the international news agency AFP, brought to you in association with The Conversation. 

As world leaders are about to meet for the United Nations annual climate change conference, COP28, in Dubai, join us for this 8 part series. We’ll delve into solutions debated at the COP at a critical time for our planet. From the global south to the global north we’ll examine their potential and analyse how they aim to lead us into a more sustainable future. 

We’ll also keep a close eye on how some of those solutions relate to the nine crucial environmental planetary boundaries that scientists say must not be crossed. Six out of the nine boundaries have already been breached according to the Stockholm University’s Resilience Centre. So, how do we reduce pressure and reinforce the stability and resilience of earth’s system?

We’ll also examine some ideas that are not viable solutions and debunk why they aren’t the fix they promise to offer us.

Your Planet will explore these initiatives every Wednesday starting on November 22.

Whether you’re an environmental enthusiast, a concerned citizen, or just curious about the future of our planet subscribe now and join us for Your Planet from AFP, coming soon.

Host: Anna Cunningham. Executive producer : Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer. Editing: Camille Kauffmann. Sound design: Nicolas Vair with Irma Cabrero-Abanto and Sebastian Villanueva.

This project is funded by the European Journalism Centre, through the Solutions Journalism Accelerator. This fund is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AFP and The Conversation maintained their editorial independence throughout this project.

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The climate crisis raises many questions but we go looking for solutions.

In the first episode of a new AFP podcast series we start in Canada at "ground zero" for a possible new geological era for planet earth.

But what are the implications and what solutions can be found? 

Swedish professor in environmental science Johan Rockstrom head of the Stockholm resilience centre at Stokholm University,

has worked on a guide to assess Earth's imbalances and set targets for overcoming them.

To learn more about the proposed anthropocene era, how this era started and what we can do about it, we recommend this article by French economist Victor Court in The Conversation.

Host: Anna Cunningham

Executive producer: Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer

Edition: Camille Kauffmann

Newsgathering: Marion Thibaut, Matthew Leiser, Marlowe Hood

Music design: Nicolas Vair with Irma Cabrero-Abanto and Sebastian Villanueva

Share your thoughts at podcasts@afp.com. Send us your voice notes +33 6 79 77 38 45

Your Planet from AFP is brought to you in association with The Conversation. 

This project is funded by the European Journalism Centre, through the Solutions Journalism Accelerator. 

 This fund is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

AFP and The Conversation have retained their editorial independence at every stage of the project. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to Your Planet, a podcast series brought to you in association with The Conversation that delves into solutions for addressing climate change and the ecological crisis. 

In the first episode of Your Planet we took a deep dive into the Anthropocene -- the name given to a new epoch that many scientists believe Planet Earth has already entered, and which those experts say is marked by humanity’s unprecedented footprint on the earth.

This time we go back to the 1980's, when we had one big problem -- a giant hole in the Earth's ozone layer, which was ultimately reduced because of the actions taken worldwide. So how did we do it? What we learned in the process still inspires climate activists today.

In 1987, the global community signed the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer by phasing out man-made ozone-depleting substances. Today, many are calling for a new phase-out; this time targeting the production of fossil fuels, by far the largest contributors to global climate change.

This will be a key debate at COP28, the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference held from 30 November until 12 December in Dubai.

To learn more about the ozone layer, we recommend this article by Cathy Clerbaux is a physicist at the Free University of Brussels and Senior scientist at Laboratoire Atmosphères & Observations Spatiales (LATMOS) at Sorbonne University

Host: Anna Cunningham.

Executive producer: Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer

Edition: Camille Kauffmann

Newsgathering: Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer

Music design: Nicolas Vair with Irma Cabrero-Abanto and Sebastian Villanueva.

Share your thoughts at podcasts@afp.com. Send us your voice notes +33 6 79 77 38 45

This project is funded by the European Journalism Centre, through the Solutions Journalism Accelerator. This fund is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

AFP and The Conversation have retained their editorial independence at every stage of the project. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.