"Climate Negotiation is filled with deceit, hypocrisy and lies" says Dr Lesmore the Director of Programmes for All Africa Conference of Churches. In this Episode, Dr Gibson Ezekiel Lesmore talks about; Climate Justice, Abundant Africa, Climate Injustice, Corruption, Political and Religious leaders, Climate Activism, the Church and more!!!  Dr Lesmore dives deep in this conversation as he shares his unfiltered opinions on the Church's responsibility in the fight against Climate Injustice.

As we count down to the third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastics pollution coming up in a few days, listen to this Bilingual Episode that features Tearfund's Campaigner, Hannah Llyod as co-host who talks to two activists from Latin America who attended the second session of the plastics Negotiations in Paris.  Languages spoken in this episode are; English, Spanish and Portuguese.  Here are some of the links to follow up on what Hannah shared in this episode; Stunt image: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs3w0D5olIe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==   BFFP March: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/plastics-treaty-march-2023/ Join the Youth coalition: youthenvironment.org/gycpp   Engage with the negotiations online Zero Draft Document: https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/43239/ZERODRAFT.pdf INC3 landing page: https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution/session-3 Watch the plenary sessions on the webcast: https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution/webcast#INC3

"Real change starts from the bottom to the top, don't stop doing good as God sees it all even when man doesn't" says Paul Cook the head of Advocacy for Tearfund in this episode as he shares his story and Journey in line with the works he does.   Have a listen and be Blessed!

In this episode, Jessica Bwali talks to Tearfund Senior Policy Advisor, Lucy Tanner and Tearfund UK Campaigns Associate Hannah Lloyd who attended the second session of the Plastics negotiations that took place in Paris from 29th May to 2nd June 2023. Lucy and Hannah share about their experience and their hopes for the forth coming plastic negotiations. Have a listen! If you are interested in being part of the forthcoming 3rd Session of the plastic negotiations that will take place in Nairobi Kenya in November 2023, you can send an email to [email protected]. For more on Plastics treaty negotiations, visit  https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution

In this episode, Anne Mumbi (Tearfund Influencing Lead for Southern and East Africa) and Martin Uswege (Tearfund CCT Southern and East Africa regional Lead) talks about Church and Community Transformation CCT in Southern and East Africa Region. They share about the journey and impact of CCT in the region and their hopes for the future.

As the second Session of the intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution (INC-2) kicks off today, May 29th 2023 in Paris. Jessica Bwali had a discussion with Jack Wakefield, Senior Campaigner - Plastic Pollution for Tearfund who shared about the Rubbish Campaign Tearfund is currently running and he shared  about what he hopes the outcomes will be at the INC-2. The INC-2 is working towards developing an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including the marine environment with the ambition to complete the negotiations by end of 2024.

In this new Episode, Jessica Bwali talks to Jennipher Sakala the Regional Director for Southern and East Africa Tearfund about Church and Community Transformation CCT and its impact on many lives.

Jessica Bwali in Lusaka hears what climate change looks like in different countries, from  Collins Lungu  @Lungucollins02 from Zambia Youth Environment Network https://www.facebook.com/zyenmain/,  Ewi Stephanie Lamma @ewi_lamma from Cameroon and the Africa Climate Reality Project https://climatereality.africa/getting-to-know-ewi-stephanie-lamma/  Matthias Boehning @mkboehning from Germany and the World Evangelical Alliance Sustainability Centre https://wea-sc.org/en/home  Cyprian Kiteng'e from Kenya and Climate YES https://climateyes.org/ Promise Salawu from Renew Our World Nigeria and Tearfund Nigeria

Jessica Bwali talks to an amazing group of Renew Our World COP veterans reflecting together on COP27 in Egypt and looking forward to COP28 in Dubai. Cyprian Kiteng'e from Kenya, coordinator of Climate YES, Ewi Lamma from the Africa Climate Reality Project, based in Cameroon, Lungu Collins from Zambia Youth Environment Network, Matthias Boehning from the World Evangelical Alliance Sustainability Centre in Germany, and Promise Salawu from Renew Our World Nigeria.

Dr Tinashe Gumbo from Zimbabwe talks to Jessica Bwali about how Economic and  Ecological Justice can be achieved. Dr Tinashe is the All Africa Conference of Churches Executive Secretary for Economic and Ecological Justice.