Farema Yazdi, a volunteer co-director at Climates, a non-for-profit organisation, as well as senior policy officer at the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, joins host, Lukas Petridis in the third episode of Season 1 of the City Resilience in Melbourne podcast. Farema’s work focuses on climate change policy – specifically within the climate science team; adaptation and risk branch – working towards building Victoria’s resilience to climate change.
In this episode, Farema and Lukas discusses the role of colonialism and injustice in the climate crisis, why community is at the height of resilience and why we need to we need to empower locally conceptualised solutions and initiatives implemented by the community. The pair also discuss the importance of multi-functional actions regarding climate policies.
City Resilience in Melbourne acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
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