The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as COP27 is soon set to take place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
This is the first COP27 to take place since Russia invaded Ukraine, which has brought world tensions to their brink and seen focus on climate legislation delayed.
That being said, action on the climate crisis remains important - in Europe alone the temperature is rising at .5 degrees celsius per decade according to the World Meteorological Organisation.
To learn more about what this conference will look like, Liam spoke to Bronwyn Hayward, a political science professor at the University of Canterbury.
Climate change reparations are set to take centre stage at this years COP27 summit. This will see developing countries being paid for climate change damages, especially when they have contributed the least to climate change. So how exactly will this work?
Christina asked Dr Kevin Trenberth, a Distinguished Scholar at the National Centre of Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
In March this year, the government announced a special Ukrainian policy that allowed Ukrainian New Zealanders to sponsor family members to come to New Zealand.
However, the policy has not been as successful as many hoped as visa recipients are struggling to set up new lives here and has even led to some returning home.
David spoke to Kate Turska from the organisation Mahi for Ukraine about what has happened to Ukrainians who arrived here and how New Zealanders can help them.
Following the 27th annual UN Climate Change conference, known as COP27, landmark reparations known as Loss and Damage funds have been set up in order to allow wealthy countries to help poorer countries deal with the effects of climate change.
Arno spoke to Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva of the University of Canterbury about the outcomes of COP27, including how New Zealand is helping to fight the effects of climate change on less developed countries.
To start off, Ratuva spoke about the purpose of the conference.
Jonny tries to teach Corey phone etiquette, the talented Luke Buda phones in from Wellington for Friday Live, and the listeners go mad over the coppers sending out speeding tickets.
University of Canterbury Astronomer Professor John Hearnshaw is calling for national legislation to limit light pollution.
He proposed a national law that would set new controls on outdoor lighting, such as 10pm curfews for illuminated advertising signs, limits on what street lights could emit, and reductions in blue light across cities and towns.
David spoke to Richard Easther from the University of Auckland about what would happen if New Zealand started to regulate light pollution.
First up on our series of policies PM Chris Hipkins has pulled back on is the public media merger of Radio New Zealand and Television New Zealand.
Kris Fafoi and Willie Jackson, the former and current broadcasting minister respectively, had initially set out a preferred deadline of March 1st with a final deadline of July 1st this year.
However, Hipkins claimed the merger was too expensive and unnecessary, replacing it with a funding boost for NZ on Air and RNZ.
To learn more about what this means for public media in Aotearoa, Liam spoke to Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington’s Peter Thompson.
A global climate strike is set to take place on Friday, 3 March.
In Aotearoa, Fridays for Future Tāmaki Makaurau have teamed up with School Strike for Climate and other Fridays for Future groups across the moto to demand climate action.
News & Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Sophora from Fridays for Future Tāmaki Makaurau about this kaupapa.
To start off our interview, she asked Sophora about the Fridays for Future movement, and how it started.
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