FM4 Reality Check Podcast

COP28 is as controversial as it is crucial. A key meeting to ween the world off fossil-fuels taking place in a fossil fuel state. We hear of oil deal scandal engulfing the presidency, but also why the COP process remains vital, we hear about a "global stocktake" and how climate scientists exerience COPs. A special show from Fm4 Klimanews' Chris Cummins. Sendungshinweis: OKFM4, 29.11.2023, 17 Uhr

The Brazilian Cerrado savannah is vital to the planet. It's stores as much carbon as a rainforest, it hosts 5% of the world's biodiversity and it is the source of most of Brazil's water, making it a lifeline for the Amazon. But it is being destroyed at a dizzying rate to grow the soybeans used as animal feed for the global meat and dairy industry. Chris Cummins has been to this threatened jewel. Sendungshinweis: OKfm4 18.10.23 18uhr

Two years in Glasgow, world leaders pledged to end global deforestation by 2030. But the latest figures show that actually deforestation rates are not decreasing but are increasing! The new Global Forest Watch An area of tropical forest the size of Switzerland was lost last year. That's 11 football pitches a minute. Brazil is the worst area and there a battle is waging between forest defenders and organized crime. With Chris Cummins Sendungshinweis Mo Show 30.07.23 8.15

A European plan to restore degraded ecosystems is under threat from right-wing lawmakers. Conservationists say it’s our last chance to avoid a catastrophic ecosystem collapse. Sendungshinweis: OK Fm4 13.06.23 um 17.20

At least a third of global greenhouse emissions are linked to food production. At the same time we have depleted our soil so badly the UN is warning farming may be impossible in the future. Something has to radically change. Ecological economist Marc Buckley has an idea: Regenerative farming: Sendungshinweis: FM4 Morning Show, 17.04.2023, 6 Uhr

Chloe Combi is author, Podcaster, Film-Director and researcher who has interviewed over 10,000 members of Gen Z + Gen A. She says listening to young people is a window to the future, but you have to do it with respect and an open mind. Sendungshinweis: 16.05.23 OKfm4 17uhr

Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk has campaigned for the release of illegally detained people has documented war crimes comitted in Ukraine, mostly by Russia troops. She tells Chris Cummins how an “accountability gap” means Russian forces believe they are beyond international law. Sendungshinweis: Ok Fm4, 09.05.23 17.10

Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk has campaigned for the release of illegally detained people has documented war crimes comitted in Ukraine, mostly by Russia troops. She tells Chris Cummins how an “accountability gap” means Russian forces believe they are beyond international law. Sendungshinweis: Ok Fm4, 09.05.23 17.10

They say to solve the climate crisis we will have to think “out of the box”. Well what about thinking beyond the planet? China, Japan, the US and Europe are racing to be the first to put giant solar farms in space and then to beam the renewable energy back down to Earth. It sounds like science fiction; but it could be science fact within a decade: Chris Cummins chats to Sanjay Vijendran, who leads space-based solar project SOLARIS at the European Space Agency. Sendungshinweis: OKfm4 28.04.2023 17.15

Thousands of people are out on the streets of Israel every week, protesting judicial reforms that veteran journalist and historian Tom Segev describes as a “right-wing putsch”. He tells fm4's Chris Cummins that Israeli democracy is in “unprecedented danger” and the new far-right security minister is a “ very dangerous” man who will make life much worse for Palestinians. Sendungshinweis: OK Fm4 21.04.2023 17uhr

Venice, La Serenissima, is one of the most celebrated and glorious cities in the world. But mass tourism has damaged its charm and ecology. Chris Cummins travels by train, bike and boat to see if there is more sustainable was to enjoy the Veneto region and understand its water-side culture? Sendungshinweis: OKFM4, 14.04.2023, 17 Uhr

Venice, La Serenissima, is one of the most celebrated and glorious cities in the world. But mass tourism has damaged its charm and ecology. Chris Cummins travels by train, bike and boat to see if there is more sustainable was to enjoy the Veneto region and understand its water-side culture? Sendungshinweis: OKFm4 14.04.2023 18.40

96-year old Erika Freeman grew up in Vienna in the 1930s and as a young Jewish girl was persecuted by the Nazis who put her father in a concentration camp. She fled to New York at the age of twelve and, eventually, became a renowned psychoanalyst to the stars and friend and adviser to Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe. Now back in Austria she told fm4's Chris Cummins out about her childhood experiences under the Nazis.

It’s World Water Day today. an opportunity to talk about rivers, which are generally in a poor state of health in Europe. But Last week Europe’s first wild river national park was announced in Albania. The Vjosa River will remain free for its entire length of 270kms. Ulrich Eichelmann, founder of Riverwatch, tells Chris Cummins about this important and magnficent river. Sendungshinweiss 22.03.23 OKfm4 17.40

Nina Krushcheva is a political scientist at New York’s New School university and also the great-grand daughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Kruschchev. she has her head in the Russian and western ways of thinking and she has spent 6 months of the past year in Moscow. She tells Chris Cummins how the war in Ukraine is impacting Russian society. Sendungshinweis 15.03.23 OK Fm4 17.40

Austrian doctor Daniel Uy has spent the past three months in Ukraine running two mobile clinics for Doctors Without Borders in a area recaptured only by the Ukrainians. He was helping people cut off for months from medical help, but working conditions were very difficult. He told Chris Cummins about it: Sendungshinweis 09.02.23 16.20

With the end of the Bolsonaro era in Brazil, and the beginning of a new presidency of Lula da Silva hope have been high that the speed of destruction in the Amazon can be slowed and then reversed. Austrian filmmaker Richard Ladkani is in Brazil accompanying some indigenous leaders in this era of new hope. Klimanews Weekly with Chris Cummins Sendungshinweis 24.02.23

We hear a lot about the US space agency NASA when its rockets blast off towards the Moon and beyond. But its work on Earth is arguably even more important: NASA’s chief scientist Katherine Calvin has been in Vienna this week at the Austrian Academy of Sciences talking to Chris Cummins about NASA and the climate crisis: Sendungshinweis: 17.02.23 9uhr

As the climate changes, everything will have to change. The way we grow food, the way we make money, the way we keep ourselves safe. That's why "adaptation" is an important word in the lexicon on climate policy Dr Lisa Schipper of the University of Bonn tells fm4's Chris Cummins what adaptation means. Sendungshinweis: OK FM4, 10.02.23, 17 Uhr

Each year, governments around the world pour around hundreds of billions of dollars into artificially lowering the price of fossil fuels; that’s more than triple what renewables receive. Chris Cummins looks at why with Ipek Gencsu of the thinktank ODI Sendungshinweis: OK FM4, 08.02.23, 18 Uhr