Climate Conversations

What if they fixed it?

In this episode of Climate Conversations, former and current Operations Officers of Irish Doctors for the Environment, Dr Ola Løkken Nordrum and Orlagh Gaynor, come together to discuss the power of storytelling in shaping climate action. Orlagh shares a climate fiction story she wrote for a live storytelling event, offering a glimpse of a hopeful future that could be realised if our leaders took bold, brave action today. We reflect on the inspiration behind the story and the need for a shared vision of hope to aim towards, alongside the uncomfortable lifestyle changes and ambitious action required to break the status quo. Because when it comes to safeguarding our future, business as usual cannot continue.

Dr John Bonning Healthcare Sustainability

In this episode of Climate Conversations we discuss all things sustainability in healthcare with three international leaders in the field: Dr John Bonning, past president of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, Dr Rosa McNamara - Clinical Lead for the National Clinical Programme for Emergency Medicine in Ireland and Dr Ola Nordrum, HSE Healthcare sustainability fellow and past Operations Officer for Irish Doctors for the Environment charity. We discuss how sustainable healthcare can deliver the triple wins of improved patient care, lower costs and lower emissions. Which, in an era of rising demand, shrinking budgets and worsening climate chaos, is no longer optional, but essential. A must listen for all healthcare workers looking for a viable path forward in these tumultuous times.

The Economics of Climate Change and Climate Adaptation with Professor Karyn Morrissey

Professor Karyn Morrissey, Co-author of the Lancet Commissions Countdown on Climate Change and Human Health since 2016, sits down with IDE's Dr Lisa McNamee to talk about why an economist is interested in climate change. Karyn is Professor in Environment and Marine, at the University of Galway. She is an economist and econometrician by training who uses her skillset to study the economic drivers of, and socioeconomic and health impacts of climate change, particularly in our oceans and coastal environments. Here Karyn has linked her work on public health and marine and coastal economics to understand the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on the marine environment on society, and the changes needed to make human-marine interactions more sustainable.Edited by Dr Jan SteinerInterviewer Dr Lisa McNamee

Dr Niamh Shaw - Space for Sustainability

Dr Niamh Shaw is an explorer, scientist, performer and European Space Agency education champion. She talks to IDE's Dr Lisa McNamee about how the lessons from spaceflight and Antarctica can teach us about sustainability on Earth and about her inspiring, squiggly career to date.

The Climate and Health Emergency

This month on Climate Conversations we have a special episode: emergency medicine doctors Callum and Johnny work on resuscitating not just one patient, but the entire planetary ecosystem.Planet Earth has come to the Emergency Department in a critical condition and there's no time to waste. With dangerous levels of air pollution, rising global temperatures, escalating extreme weather events, threats to global food and water security and a rapidly closing window to act - this is a health emergency, beyond any doubt. The episode features a special guest , the outstanding Professor Hugh Montgomery. Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London and co-chair of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, Hugh is leading the healthcare world on climate action.And for those listeners who don't have a healthcare background, fear not, because although we are using the analogy of a sick patient to frame this episode the subject matter is all climate related. Enjoy!