SANTA MARTA - ECONOMIC & POLITICAL RESET

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW

25TH MAY 2026

Produced by Vivien Langford

SANTA MARTA - AN ECONOMIC & POLITICAL RESET

HAS THE Fossil Fuel  INDUSTRY ROBBED US OF OUR IMAGINATION?

Guests:

Louise  Morris -  THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE  and participant at Santa Marta Conferenec in Colombia

Emily Ghosh -  Senior Scientist and the Program Director of the Equitable Transitions program at STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE  and participant at Santa Marta. 

At Santa Marta in April the First International Conference on the fossil fuel transition happened. Only  those states and communities willing  to make the transition from fossil fuel dependendence  were invited.

This was a fresh start in the midst of an oil crisis holding the whole world to ransom.

President Gustavo Petro said " We are already seeing wars, a desperate fight for resources like oil and a breakdown in internationmal law. We are heading towards barbarism as if there is no alternative. Global democracy is impossible if we stop the transition beyond fossil fuels.

Susana Muhamad  - Special Envoy for the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative and former Environment Minister of Colombia said "
The fossil fuel industry had robbed us of our imagination"

Today's programme reports on the transition that is happening and the pragmatic people there who are getting behind it.

Louise Morris from Australia  and Emily Ghosh from Canada were there. 

They attended sessions  with Parliamentarians from around the world (but not from Australia)  and top scientists who announced  the creation of a new Global Energy Transition Panel, an international scientific body intended to advise policymakers on the energy transition.They will provide roadmaps whenever Governments ask them to do the modelling.

Pictured above :

Carlos Nobre- World reknowned Brazilian Earth System and climate scientist

Irene Velez Tirres - Colombia's Environment Minister

John Rockstrom -Director of Potsdam Institute for global governments with specific roadmaps to transition away from foissil fuels.