Fighting Fire with Fiery Passion: 2026 Goldman Prize Winners

About this episode

The episode features conversations with two 2026 Goldman Prize winners, discussing their environmental advocacy and efforts to combat climate change.

The Goldman Environmental Prize is known as the Nobel for grassroots environmental champions, for good reason. Award-winners are earth defenders, often bucking entrenched systems and powerful interests in order to protect and restore the natural environments we all depend on. This week we feature conversations with two of the 2026 Goldman Prize winners: Iroro Tanshi, a tropical conservationist and bat ecologist who rediscovered a species that hadn't been seen in half a century. When climate-amplified wildfire threatened to destroy her new find, she built a community movement to virtually eliminate the wildfire risk. Sarah Finch, a tireless environmental advocate who spent years in English courts using planning law as a defense against the fossil fuel industry. She won a major UK Supreme Court ruling, a ruling that is already constraining oil, gas, and coal development across the country. What can we learn about passion, persistence, and collaboration from these two advocates? Guests: Iroro Tanshi, Tropical Conservationist Sarah Finch, Environmental Campaigner For show notes, related links, and episode transcript, visit https://climateone.org/podcasts Highlights: 00:00 Intro 03:01…

People in this episode

Guests: Iroro Tanshi, Sarah Finch

Topics covered

• environmental advocacy
• wildfire prevention
• grassroots movements
• biodiversity
• legal battles against fossil fuels

Keywords

• Goldman Prize
• environmental champions
• wildfire risk
• tropical conservation
• bat ecologist
• fossil fuel industry
• UK Supreme Court

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Goldman Environmental Prize

Places: UK, Warri, Nigeria

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