Ep2: The Climate Front Line

EPISODE SUMMARY

Coastal communities and those impacted by flooding are on the front line of climate change, already experiencing more frequent and severe events. Join Niki and her co-host Caroline Douglass, the Environment Agency’s Exec Director for Flood and Coastal Risk Management as they hear the challenges being faced by the Maldives with a guest interview from the Special Envoy for Climate Change in the Maldives, Her Excellency Sabra Nordeen.

EPISODE NOTES

Coastal communities and those impacted by flooding are on the front line of climate change, already experiencing more frequent and severe events.  

Join Niki and her co-host Caroline Douglass, the Environment Agency’s Exec Director for Flood and Coastal Risk Management as they explore how the Environment Agency are helping communities prepare to adapt and be resilient to the impacts of climate change and more frequent and severe flooding events.  

Our guest interview is the Special Envoy for Climate Change in the Maldives, Her Excellency Sabra Nordeen who describes the experience of attending COP26 as a representative from a Small Island State and how the effects of climate change are already being felt in the Maldives.

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

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