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The Climate Connection: Lost in Translation

  • Artist: BBC World Service
  • Title: The Climate Connection: Lost in Translation
  • Length: 26:31 minutes (24.27 MB)
  • Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

Fisherman John Otieno, Kisumu, Western Kenya November 2010. Photo courtesy of Josphat Makori

Africa Talks Climate is today featured on the BBC World Service as part of a series of special reports exploring a key question in the story of action on climate change: what's stopping us?

As world leaders gather again in Cancun for the annual UN climate talks, a year on from Copenhagen, what’s stopping progress on action to address the clear challenge of climate change?

The Climate Connection looks at what systems or beliefs might lie behind our apparent apathy, and which paths we might need to take in order to respond meaningfully to climate change.

Africa Talks Climate researchers Sam Otieno and Anna Godfrey took part in a studio discussion in Nairobi for part two of the series Lost in Translation, looking at how language, religion and culture influence our understanding of climate change and exploring some of the key findings of the research.

The Climate Connection runs throughout the first week of the COP 16 talks in December 2010, and was produced in association with The Open University.

Visit the BBC World Service for more on the series.