New Research on Climate Discourses

Promoting Inclusion and New Voices in the Climate Movement

In the final episode of Discussing Apocalypse, host Kristian Noll has a conversation with two leaders in the climate field: Skw’akw’as (Sunshine) Dunstan-Moore, indigenous & human rights advocate from Canada, and Shomy Chowdhury, co-founder of Awareness 360 and a WASH activist from Bangladesh. In this wide-ranging conversation, Sunshine and Shomy reflect on their personal experiences of climate change, their journeys as leaders in the climate policy space, and the importance of including youth, women, and marginalised communities in global climate discussions.

New Locales and Impacts of Climate Action Within Peace and Security Efforts

Episode three of Discussing Apocalypse features host Kristian Noll's conversations with climate policy experts Iyad Abumoghli, Founder and Director of UNEP's Faith for Earth Coalition; Dicky Sofjan, VP of Globethics; Martha Jarvis, Permanent Anglican Representative to the UN; Maja Groff, Convenor of the Climate Governance Commission; and Nushrat Chowdhury, Climate Justice Policy Advisor at Christian Aid Bangladesh. This episode focuses on local responses to the climate emergency, and the role of faith communities in responding to these challenges.

New Narratives of Climate Resilience

In the second episode of Discussing Apocalypse, host Kristian Noll speaks with international climate experts about how individuals around the world are making sense of the climate crisis, focusing on the role of faith and religious narratives. Featuring Iyad Abumoghli, Founder and Director of UNEP's Faith for Earth Coalition; Dicky Sofjan, VP of Globethics; Martha Jarvis, Permanent Anglican Representative to the UN; and Maja Groff, Convenor of the Climate Governance Commission. This episode focuses on the ways new faith-rooted narratives about the climate crisis are influencing global policymaking.

New Research on Climate Discourses

In this introductory episode, host Kristian Noll speaks with three academics who have been researching the global political narrative surrounding the climate crisis. Through their conversations, we learn about the evolution of a global narrative on the climate, the role of faith and religious discourses in 'new' ways of thinking about environmental catastrophe, and are introduced to the work of the LSE Religion and Global Society unit developing a methodology for engaging religious communities in climate policy discussions.