MIGRISE PODCAST SERIES · SEASON 01
The MigRise Podcast Series aims to raise awareness of climate justice among migrant, Black, and People of Colour youth (MBPY). It is a space where MBPY lead the conversation, voice their concerns, and challenge the status quo around climate belonging. The series also seeks to dismantle the myth that migrants are not interested in climate justice.
Through this series, we hope to create and strengthen spaces for diverse climate justice activists and enhance the participation of migrants in the climate justice movement in Germany and across Europe.
10 episodes5 hr 21 min of conversationsEnglish
A podcast by BreachBuilders e.V.
YOUR NEXT PERSPECTIVE STARTS HERE
The podcast sets the tone of the MigRise podcast series. This introduction will help our listeners understand the context of the MigRise Climate Academy and the importance of our work.
Togo is responsible for only 0.02% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, yet it is one of the most affected countries on earth. Dr. Kofi Kauffmann Mawuse Nsougan talks with Assem Ekué Darius of Les Amis de la Terre Togo about how colonial history made Togo vulnerable, and what justice looks like today.
Climate change is no longer just about rising temperatures and melting glaciers: it is about fairness, responsibility and who pays the price of progress. Nuzhat talks with climate researcher Dr. Birgit Breuer about how the conversation moved from climate science to climate justice.
Climate justice in the Amazon isn't about “saving trees”: it is about protecting the human rights of the people who keep those trees standing. Peggy Kere Osman speaks with Ana Rosa de Lima, founder of the Meli Bees Network, from the “arc of deforestation” to European climate policy.
Who holds the pen when climate decisions are written? Priscilla and Tamara of the MigRise Climate Academy talk with Dr. Fathiaya Zakari, Ghanaian youth advocate and COP29 African Youth Negotiator, about entering closed rooms and what migrant and diaspora youth can do as allies.
Sustainable conservation cannot be achieved without climate justice. Wiysahnyuy Stephanie Nfor and Deborah Chidimma speak with conservationist Tochukwu ThankGod Okafor about local communities as leaders, knowledge holders and rights-holders at the frontline of conservation.
Film is a powerful tool that can propel the climate justice movement. Grace Matu talks with Catriona Fadke, Programme Coordinator at the Human Rights Film Festival, about film curation, climate justice films and engaging audiences beyond the cinema.
Climate change is breaking the food systems that keep billions of people alive, and the health consequences are already here. Dr. Dennis Munene and Fabiola Dontsi Tonleu speak with Dr. Mukumbuta Nawa Talama about malnutrition, access to medicine and accountability.
Iran's environmental crisis is not only about drought: it is also about what happens when a country loses its scientists and silences its experts. In this solo episode, Sajedeh Zavareh explores brain drain, silenced expertise and environmental collapse.
Sengly speaks with Daniel Belalcazar, advisor on decolonial education, about research from his master's thesis on the connection between environmental degradation and international drug policy.
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THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PERSPECTIVES
Researchers. Advocates. Community builders.
Dr. Birgit BreuerClimate researcher (glacier and ice-sheet modelling)
Ana Rosa de LimaFounder, Meli Bees Network
Tochukwu ThankGod OkaforConservationist and environmental researcher
Catriona FadkeProgramme Coordinator & Curatorial Assistant; freelance film curatorABOUT THE SEASON
The MigRise Podcast Series, “Young Voices, Real Talk”, is produced by BreachBuilders e.V. as part of the MigRise Climate Academy. Each episode is a conversation about climate justice between a young host from the Academy community and a guest from research, activism, health, conservation, film or policy.
Season 1 moves from the legacy of colonialism in Togo and the fight for rights in the Amazon, to youth negotiators at COP29, climate-driven malnutrition, community-led conservation and the story of Iran’s brain drain.
The question stays the same throughout: who pays the price of the climate crisis, and who is responsible for fixing it?
