Climate Talk Uganda With Josephine Karungi
Episodes
Episode 39: What came out of COP30 for Uganda?
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So much stuff in this episode. Big stuff. Uganda is now co-chairing the Green Climate Fund: 'You can't be the one that is slaughtering a cow and then ...
Episode 38: The Sticky Reality of Climate Negotiations
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bart Dewaele is a General Director at Join For Water. Recorded on 21st November 2025, while negotiations at COP30 were still underway, he shares his c...
Episode 37: COP30, Water and Climate Change
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The future of the world's freshwater resources in an unpredictably changing climate is a vital issue. Vanessa Thompson, Communication and development ...
Episode 36: 'The polluters must pay.' OXFAM Uganda at COP30
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As COP30 gets up to speed we're joined by Jackson Muhindo Rukara of OXFAM Uganda. Before he leaves for Belem on Friday 14th he gives us a rundown on t...
Episode 35: Three Perspectives on COP30 and Uganda
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first of a series of special episodes on the UN Conference of Parties in Brazil - COP30 - the world's biggest climate shindig. I mean conference. ...
Episode 34: The Country Climate and Development Report for Uganda - what's in it and why it matters.
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation about a report from the World Bank might not be your idea of a fun time. But as Cyril Desponts explains, the Uganda Country Climate and...
Episode 33: 'Climate change is not about COP...it's about our families. '
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Veteran journalist Samuel Ssettumba explains why informed, dedicated climate change coverage matters in 2025. The Nation Media Group now has a dedica...
Episode 32: Award-winning journalist Amayiko Martin and the story of Nkambwe Forest
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amayiko Martin's three part documentary aired on Radio Simba. It's called 'Sub-counties are in tears - assailants destroyed over 300 hectares of Nkamb...
Episode 31: 'Everything stopped where it was.' The Closure of USAID and its Consequences for Uganda.
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On July 1st 2025 USAID officially shut down. For many countries around the world it represents a massive blow to a range of development programmes cov...
Episode 30: Why Wetlands Matter - with Asadhu Ssebyoto
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 23rd to the 31st July 2025 saw the 15th meeting of the Conference on Wetlands in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The Wetlands COP15's theme was "Protect...
Episode 29: Making Climate Resilient Communities A Reality
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this in-depth interview, Pauline Nantongo Kalunda talks to us about her own personal and professional growth. She has moved from being a scientist ...
Episode 28: 'The mosquitoes have adapted, the people have not.'
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where to start with this amazing episode? Clarity, insight and perspective from Dr. John Bosco Isunju, of Makerere University, on the hazards we face ...
Episode 27: Communities Displaced by Floods and Other Impacts of Climate Change
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're turning our attention back to some of the broader questions around health and climate change. Crispus Mwemaho has a background in heal...
Episode 26: What Progress in Protecting Uganda's Environment?
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a timely and profound exploration of the strategies, passions and frustrations of environmental activism over a long period of time. Founded i...
Episode 25: Predicting Healthcare Needs, AI and Climate Change
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you prepare for outbreaks of malaria if climate change means that mosquitoes which spread the disease are thriving in areas that were previousl...
Episode 24: The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Janet Kantalama Kantana joins Josephine to talk about how we can understand mental health challenges in the age of climate change. We explore how our ...
Episode 23: Climate Change and Health Outcomes in Uganda
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Surges in malaria and other diseases; damage to clinics and other physical infrastructure; decreased access to immunisation and mental health services...
Episode 22: A Reminder of the Big Picture
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few weeks we've been exploring fluctuations in the price of food and other commodities like coffee and cocoa. In this episode we're taki...
Episode 21: Food Prices, Farming and Climate Change Explained
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tracing the connections between the price of the food you put on your table, global commodity markets, local conditions and climate change is incredib...
Episode 20: Talking Food Prices with Market Traders
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matoke! Irish potatoes! Mangoes! What more could you want? The on-the-ground impacts of price fluctuations on these foods are felt day to day and seas...
Episode 19: Two Perspectives on Rising Coffee Prices and Climate Change.
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The price of coffee and many staple foods in Uganda have been rising steeply: good news for sellers (farmers), not so good news for consumers. And the...
Episode 18: Two Innovations: Retaining Soil Moisture and Improving Soil Productivity
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Najuna and Namutebi Muniirah are each developing new technologies to deal with aspects of climate change that particularly affect small holde...
Episode 17: Innovations to Prolong the Shelf-Life of Fruit and Vegetables
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Controlling the ripening of fruits and vegetables could be a major step forward in securing incomes for farmer and traders, as well as mitigating the ...
Episode 16: Food Waste and Climate Change
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Only the USA and China produce more greenhouse gases than food wastage. According to FAO estimates, the food that is lost and wasted could feed 1.26 b...
Episode 15: Electric boda-bodas
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Felix Muchiri of Green Hub East Africa discusses the benefits of boda-bodas that are not powered by petrol engines in a city where climate change impa...
Episode 14: Cycling could be key to unlocking Kampala's future in a climate-changed world
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Going to work, school or shopping, cycling can be the easiest way to get around a congested city. As long as you can do it without fear of dying. Acti...
Episode 13: Planning, Development and Managing Water
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'The bridge that was designed for 1960 can not be the same bridge for today.' Sanitary engineer and water management specialist Julius Musiimenta talk...
Climate Talk Extra - Dealing with waste water
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dealing with waste water - it's not glamourous but there are opportunities. From storing water for use in irrigation to treating it for re-use. Featur...
Climate Talk Extra - Using Uganda's rainfall history to model future rain events
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Following on from our main episode this week, Dr Max Kigobe of Makerere University talks about researching historical rainfall patterns, modeling fut...
Episode 12: Floods and infrastructure
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drains, culverts, pipes and ditches: facilities you probably never think about. But vital to ensuring that Uganda is able to cope with the increased n...
Episode 11: What does resilience to climate change actually mean?
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Deep stuff in this conversation. As a prelude to the next few episodes that'll explore climate change, infrastructure and transportation, we touch on ...
Episode 10: Listeners' reflections on climate change
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Teddy Aine is a student based in Kampala, Joel Cherop is a farmer and entrepreneur from the Sebei ranges of Mt Elgon, and Taban Malis George is a stud...
Episode 9: The water cycle and coping with disruption
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Too much water. Too Little water. Water in all the wrong places, at the wrong times. That pretty much sums up global rainfall in the age of climate ch...
Episode 8: Agroforestry and climate change
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Agriculture + Forestry = Agroforestry. Growing trees and agricultural crops together in a complementary relationship has been happening for thousands...
Episode 7: Women Speak about the Impacts of Climate Change
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Between 75% and 80% of women provide farm labor in Uganda, yet only around 25% of women own land in their own right. Josephine Karungi examines how th...
Episode 6: Hunger, nutrition and food security in a changing climate
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The compelling Agnes Kirabo of Uganda's Food RIghts Alliance joins us this week from the Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali, with her take on the con...
Episode 5: Reporting on climate change and making a green economy work
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gerald Tenywa has been reporting for the last two decades on wildlife, ivory trafficking, forests, wetlands, pollution, oil, land, water and climate c...
Episode 4: Marabou storks, wetlands and nature, with Achilles Byaruhanga of Nature Uganda
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Achilles Byaruhanga is the Executive Director of Nature Uganda, and he's an amazing person to listen to. This conversation with Josephine Karungi begi...
Episode 3: Women in Arua balance domestic obligations with climate challenges
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We begin this episode in Koboko, about 55 miles north of Arua, where we hear from two women about how they balance their many obligations, and how cli...
Episode 2: Agricultural extension work and an overview of agriculture and climate change
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear from Kenneth Tibamanya, an agricultural extension worker, about serving communities in Kiryandongo District as they face the o...
1: Smallholder farmers living with climate change
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Smallholder farmers are at the business end of climate change - it affects their everyday lives in profound ways. In this episode we hear their testim...