Podcasts

The Minority Earth is a podcast that views the planet through the lens of minority experiences, especially in relation to climate, justice, and sustainability. Join us for regular deep dive into the struggles, contributions and perspectives of marginalised groups/individuals.

In this episode, host Abiola Durodola is joined by Nick Cullen, an activist and organiser who has worked within the Climate Justice and Migrant Justice space. Together, they discussed the intersection between climate crisis and migrant justice, the current concerns of minoritised communities regarding environmental injustice as well as the growing intersection of climate denialism and anti-immigrant sentiment among right-wing movements in Scotland and the UK.

In this episode, host Abiola Durodola is joined by Zarina Ahmad, a leading climate justice and race‑equality activist and the Co-director of Women Environmental Network (WEN) whose work has transformed how ethnic minority communities engage with environmental issues in Scotland and across the UK. They both explored the importance of building intersectional network to address systemic injustices and how she has mobilised communities that are routinely excluded from environmental conversation to stand for themselves.

In this episode, host Abiola spoke with Camilo Brokaw and Abhinav Ojha on the need to address polarisation and inequality regarding nature and energy access in Scotland.

They touched on the need to mobilise community action if we want to achieve inclusive climate action and a truly just transition, and explained how CEMVO‘s new environment project, ‘Mobilising Community Action Scotland (MCAS)’, will be pivotal in achieving these goals.

Scotland’s environment sector is one of the least diverse sectors, with the ⁠RACE Report⁠ highlighting that less than 10 per cent of the workforce identify as ethnic minorities.

So, what does it take to increase workforce diversity in the environmental sector?

In this latest episode of our podcast, host Abiola discussed green jobs and the lack of diversity within the environmental sector in Scotland, with Virginia Toyi, CEMVO Scotland’s Environmental Race Equality Officer for the ⁠Race Environmental Equality Programme (REEP)⁠, supporting organisations in the environmental sector to become moreracially inclusive, equitable, and representative.

They focused on important questions that seek to unearth the current systemic issues within the environment sector and on ongoing efforts towards the creation of an inclusive and more equitable environment in the Scottish environment sector.

In Scotland, migration has significantly shaped society and the economy. The Scottish Government reports that around 10.2% of Scotland’s population was ⁠born outside the UK⁠, with increasing representation from Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. Many of these communities bring lived experience of climate impacts and long-standing traditions of adaptation, communal resource management, and environmental stewardship.
However, evidence from organisations such as ⁠Climate Outreach⁠ and ⁠Friends of the Earth Scotland⁠ highlights that Global South diaspora voices remain under‑represented in climate policy spaces, funding decisions, and public climate narratives.

In this episode, host Abiola discussed the role of voices from around the world in driving local climate action with Gayatri Kale, a Sustainability professional and the Founder of ⁠Global South Voices Project.