An audio diary from the COP28 climate conference, Part 1

Sights, sounds and scenes from the largest climate gathering on the planet.

Dr. Robbie Parks joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to give listeners a front row seat at the largest, most consequential climate change conference on the planet.

Parks, a senior fellow of the Agents of Change program and assistant professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, traveled to Dubai this month for the United Nations’ COP28 conference and, over the course of the week, kept an audio diary as he navigated the bustling conference, ran into old friends, chatted with experts and explored the climate change and health intersection.

Check out Part 2 for more from Parks’ in Dubai.

The Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast is a biweekly podcast featuring the stories and big ideas from past and present fellows, as well as others in the field. You can see all of the past episodes here.

Listen below to Parks, and subscribe to the podcast at iTunes or Spotify.

Agents of Change in Environmental Justice · An audio diary from the COP28 climate conference, Part 1

An audio diary from the COP28 climate conference, Part 1

Sights, sounds and scenes from the largest climate gathering on the planet.

Plans to dispose of mining waste in Norway’s Arctic Ocean worries Sámi fishers, herders

The next deluge may go differently

The hidden devastation of hurricanes

The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals

Opinion: How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant

Two ways of knowing: How merging science and Indigenous wisdom fuels new discoveries

Is ‘imagination activism’ the antidote to climate doom we’ve been looking for?

Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals

One facility has emitted cancer-causing chemicals into waterways at levels up to 520% higher than legal limits.

Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities

“They're terrorizing these scientists because they want to keep them silent.”

Regulators are underestimating health impacts from air pollution: Study

"The reality is, we are not exposed to one chemical at a time.”

Two years into his term, has Gov. Shapiro kept his promises to regulate Pennsylvania’s fracking industry?

A new report assesses the administration’s progress and makes new recommendations

An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

“We cannot stand by and allow this to happen. We need to hold this administration accountable.”

New evidence links heavy metal pollution with wildfire retardants

“The chemical black box” that blankets wildfire-impacted areas is increasingly under scrutiny.