Interview with Fatimata Dia Touré, Directrice de l'institut de l'énergie et de l'environnement de la francophonie from the Organisation international de la francophonie (IEPF)

Fatimata Dia Touré talks about her expectations from the COP18 climate conference

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Interview with Kevin Henry from Care France. Care International

Kevin Henry from CARE France talks about his organisation’s project ‘Where the Rain Falls’ which used field research to look at the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security.

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Interview with Tracey Lane, Programme Director  of the International Hydropower Association

Tracey Lane talks about hydropower energy, which she says is the largest renewable energy globally and is expected to grow over the next decade.

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Interview with Stefan Gsänger, Secretary General of the World Wind Energy Association

Stefan Gsänger talks about the difficulties currently facing the wind industry globally.

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Interview with Laurence Watson, Climate Campaigner from the UK Youth Climate Coalition

Laurence Watson talks about the work that youth can do putting pressure on governments.

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Interview with Naoko Ishii, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility

Naoko Ishii warns that the planet is in huge crisis. She says last month GEF’s advisory committee released a report that warned that 2°C of temperature rise is too much.

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Interview with Jean Sibiri Ouedraogo, Head of the Department of Research in Agriculture and Environment of the Comité permanent inter-états de lutte contre la sécheresse au Sahel

Jean Sibiri Ouedraogo talks about his work tackling climate change and his expectations for the conference.

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Interview with M. A. Halim, Director of the Department of Disaster Risk Management of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent

Yvette Abrahams talks about the lack of climate finance being pledged in Doha.

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Interview with Yvette Abrahams Researcher of the Gender CC - Woman for Climate Justice

Yvette Abrahams talks about the lack of climate finance being pledged in Doha.

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Interview with Paul Wheelhouse Scottish Government Minister for Environment and Climate Change. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Paul Wheelhouse talks about the country’s domestic policies for renewable energy and efficiency measures.

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Interview with H. E. Marcin Korolec, Minister of Environment of Poland

Marcin Korolec talks about the COP18 conference as the bridge between the Kyoto Protocol and the new deal for 2020.

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Interview with Wendel Trio, Director of Climate Action Network Europe

 Wendel Trio, Director talks about the EU’s position in the negotiations.

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Interview with Lars Rasmussen Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Global Green Growth Institute.

Lars Lokke Ramussen talks about his work providing a bottom up approach to climate change challenges.

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Interview with Frederic Hauge, President of the Bellona Foundation

Frederic Hauge talks about his work taking what we have too much of to create what we really need.

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Interview with Anja Kollmuss, Senior Policy Researcher of the Carbon Market Watch. German NGO Forum on Environment and Development

Anja Kollmuss talks about the issues of the AAUs. She talks about the history of the Kyoto Protocol to explain how these pollution permits were able to come into being.

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Interview with Kersten-Karl Barth, Director of Sustainability of Siemens AG. International Chamber of Commerce

Kersten-Karl Barth discusses the variety of incentives governments can use to promote low-carbon technologies, arguing that there is no ‘one size fits all’ and that decisions must be taken on a country by country basis.

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Interview with Ivonne A-Baki, Secretary of State Yasuní-ITT Initiative of Ecuador

Ivonne A-Baki talks about her work in the region with the highest biodiversity in the world.

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Interview with Satu Hassi, Member of the European Parliament

Satu Hassi talks about EU ambition. She says she would hope the EU would have been more ambitious than it has shown itself to be.

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Interview with Graham Reeder, representative of Earth in Brackets. College of the Atlantic

Graham Reeder discusses the political issue of loss and damage within adaptation, focusing on the direct impacts of climate change on communities and using the recent example of the typhoon in the Philippines.

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Interview with Yuko NIshida from the Bureau of Environment, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Rodrigo de Oliveira Perpétuo, Deputy Secretary Prefeitura Municipal de Belo Horizonte and Gino Van Begin Secretary General of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

Gino Van Begin, Rodrigo de Oliveira Perpetuo and Yuko Nishida talk about how cities are tackling climate change

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Interview with Philippe Henry, Minister of Environment, Land-use planning and Mobility, Walloon Government. Belgium

Philippe Henry talks about the country’s target to reduce emissions by 30% by 2020 and 80-95% by 2050.

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