Living Planet: Pledges, pollution and protests
We dissect US President Joe Biden s pledge to cut his country s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. Protesters in Serbia sound off on big polluters, while a city in the UK takes the initiative to clean up its dirty air. And we discuss how international travel to picturesque destinations really impacts the environment in the Global South.
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Gina De Ferrari has been at WWF for 25 years, currently working part time as an advisor to the US government partnerships team. She has held several positions at WWF: focusing on conservation efforts in the Mesoamerican Reef and the Northern Great Plains of the United States; serving as director of government donor relations, senior advisor to the president, and director of TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, and coordinating the Living Planet campaign.
She worked for 13 years in the US House of Representatives on wildlife conservation legislation and oversight of the US Coast Guard. She’s a native of Aliquippa, Pa., and has a bachelor of science in geology and a master’s in marine science from the University of Washington. She currently serves on the board of the Mesoamerican Reef Fund, supporting the management of marine protected areas in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.
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Living Planet: Earth Day, eco activists on TikTok and nuclear energy post-Chernobyl
In this episode of Living Planet, we hear about some of the different ways ordinary people relate to environmental issues in different parts of the world. Climate activists talk about using TikTok to reach Generation Z. And 35 years after the Chernobyl disaster, we ll hear how people in Russia and China view the future of nuclear energy.
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Living Planet: Climate activists using EcoTok to reach Gen Z
Generation Z is going viral on TikTok not only with dances and cat memes, but with videos about caring for the environment. One collective of young climate influencers called EcoTok is making fun, fast-paced videos about everything from foraging to biodiverse grass. They re gaining hundreds of millions of views on the popular video sharing app. But do they make a dent in the offline world?
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