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Climate Talk Uganda With Josephine Karungi

Climate Talk Uganda With Josephine Karungi

By: Josephine Karungi
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 Climate Talk Uganda aims to explore all aspects of climate change in Uganda. Every two weeks we aim to feature a wide range of people who offer their perspectives on the challenges they - and Uganda - face as climate change continues to play out.© 2025 Climate Smart Jobs Biological Sciences Earth Sciences Science Social Sciences
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  • Episode 31: 'Everything stopped where it was.' The Closure of USAID and its Consequences for Uganda.

    Episode 31: 'Everything stopped where it was.' The Closure of USAID and its Consequences for Uganda.
    Aug 21 2025
    On July 1st 2025 USAID officially shut down. For many countries around the world it represents a massive blow to a range of development programmes covering everything from health, agriculture and education to governance and climate change mitigation. In today's compelling episode, Robert Bagyenda joins us to share his insights into the likely consequences of this change. At the time of USAID's closure Robert was the team leader for the Environment Climate and Engineering Unit. Here you can fiind a report published in The Lancet in 2025 forecasting that the closure of USAID could lead to the deaths of as many as 14,000,000 people. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext And you can find the shuttered USAID website here - https://www.usaid.gov/
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    49 mins
  • Episode 30: Why Wetlands Matter - with Asadhu Ssebyoto

    Episode 30: Why Wetlands Matter - with Asadhu Ssebyoto
    Aug 7 2025
    The 23rd to the 31st July 2025 saw the 15th meeting of the Conference on Wetlands in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The Wetlands COP15's theme was "Protecting Wetlands for our Common Future," and today's guest was one of Uganda's representatives. Asadhu Ssebyoto is a Senior Wetlands Officer in the Ugandan Ministry of Water and Environment. And to say he's a man with a passion for wetland preservation would be an understatement: to use his own words, it's a subject he eats, drinks and sleeps. In this episode he talks us through the common types of wetlands found in Uganda, how we should understand their importance, and why long term preservation is only possible when the livelihoods of local communities are taken into account. You can find out more about the Wetlands COP15 here: https://www.wetlandscop15.gov.zw/ Thanks as always to our guest, Asadhu Ssebyoto, and thanks to you for listening.
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    28 mins
  • Episode 29: Making Climate Resilient Communities A Reality

    Episode 29: Making Climate Resilient Communities A Reality
    Jul 24 2025
    In this in-depth interview, Pauline Nantongo Kalunda talks to us about her own personal and professional growth. She has moved from being a scientist with a specialist interest in insects to entreprenurial activism and passionate advocacy for smallholding communities. She details the workings of the ECOTRUST model of incentivising environmentally sustainable practices, and offers many other fascinating insights along the way. Pauline is the Executive Director of the Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda: ECOTRUST. You can find out more about their work here: https://ecotrust.or.ug/about-us/ This interview was recorded in August 2024.
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    46 mins
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